Anderson Cooper

As the main host of Anderson Cooper 360°, this news anchor is one of the foremost voices in the American current affairs world. He works as a journalist, author, news reader and political commentator.

Cooper studied political science at Yale, and after graduating became a fact checker for Channel One. With the help of a fake press pass, he started putting together bootleg reports on the Myanmar conflict and selling them to the mainstream network. He then moved to Hanoi, taking a camera with him and filming reports on Vietnamese life and culture which aired on the channel. The next few years saw him report on wars from Somalia, Bosnia and Rwanda. Cooper moved on to work as a correspondent and reality TV show host for ABC, before joining CNN where he began news reporting full time. Jobs as an anchor on American Morning and the CNN New Year’s Eve Special paved the way for his own show in 2003, Anderson Cooper 360°. As part of the show Cooper has covered some of the most important global news stories in recent history, including natural disasters, wars, royal weddings and elections. In 2005 the programme was expanded to fill a two hour slot.

Since then Cooper has hosted numerous other shows, including CNN Heroes, Planet in Peril and Anderson Live. He was a moderator for the 2016 presidential debates and in 2018 toured to over 50 cities with Andy Cohen and their two-man show. With years of reporting and journalistic experience behind him, Cooper is one of the most well-known and trusted broadcasters in America.