Anderson Cooper is the host of the CNN weekday show, Anderson Cooper 360°, an Emmy-award winning news program. Anderson joined CNN in 2001 after serving as anchor and correspondent of various ABC news shows including World News Now, World News Tonight, and 20/20. Anderson earned his spot in CNN’s late night prime time line-up after his coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

 

Anderson Cooper 360° has won several awards, including three Emmys in 2006 alone for his reports on New Orleans’ Charity Hospital, black market infertility, and famine in Niger. He won another Emmy for his contribution to ABC News’ coverage of Princess Diana’s funeral. His other awards include a National Headliners Award for his tsunami coverage, a Silver Plaque from the Chicago International Film Festival for his report on the Bosnian civil war, a Bronze Telly for his pieces on famine in Somalia, a Bronze Award from the National Educational Film and Video Festival for his coverage of political Islam, and a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Journalism for his report on high school football player Corey Johnson.

 

Anderson covers most major world news and events on his show, often reporting live from the scene. He has traveled everywhere from the U.S.’s Gulf Coast during Hurricane Katrina to Afghanistan during a September 11 anniversary. For much of 2007, he traveled the world with Sanjay Gupta and Jeff Corwin to produce the documentary “Planet in Peril,” which detailed major issues affecting the future of the world. He followed up with a second part to the documentary, “Planet in Peril: Battle Lines,” which aired on CNN in 2008.

 

Anderson was a member of CNN’s 2008 Best Political Team on Television, which was comprised of reporters like Lou Dobbs, Wolf Blitzer and Paula Zahn. The Team covered the 2008 presidential elections, and Anderson himself moderated several important debates for both Democrats and Republicans over the course of the elections.

 

His memoir, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival was a New York Times bestseller. In this memoir, he details his journalistic expeditions to uncover human suffering caused by Hurricane Katrina, famine in Niger, and war-torn Iraq.  

 

Anderson graduated from Yale University with a degree in political science. He currently resides in New York City.