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'''Junket''' is a [[milk]]-based dessert, made with sweetened milk and [[rennet]], the digestive [[enzyme]] which [[curdle]]s milk. It might best be described as a loose pudding.
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'''Anderson Hays Cooper''' (born June 3, 1967) is an American [[Emmy Award]]-winning [[journalist]], author and television personality. He currently works as the primary [[News presenter#News anchor|anchor]] of the [[CNN]] news show ''[[Anderson Cooper 360°]]''. The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City studio; however, Cooper often broadcasts live on location for [[breaking news]] stories.
To make junket, milk (usually with [[sugar]] and [[vanilla]] added) is heated to approximately body temperature and the rennet, which has been dissolved in water, is mixed in to cause the milk to "set". (Temperature variations will inactivate the enzyme in the rennet, causing the dessert to fail.) The dessert is chilled prior to serving. Junket is often served with a sprinkling of grated [[nutmeg]] on top. For the majority of the 20th Century, in the eastern [[United States]] Junket was often a preferred food for ill children, mostly due to its sweetness and ease of digestion.


==Background==
In the United States, junket is commonly made with a prepackaged mix of rennet and sweetener from a company [[eponymous]]ly also known as '''[[Junket (company)|Junket]]'''. Junket is not common in the United States.
Cooper was born on June 3, 1967 in [[New York City]], the younger son of the writer [[Wyatt Emory Cooper]] and the artist, designer, writer, and heiress [[Gloria Vanderbilt]], granddaughter of [[Cornelius Vanderbilt II]] of the prominent [[Vanderbilt family|Vanderbilt Family of New York]]. His ancestry is primarily of [[English people|English]], [[Scottish People|Scottish]], [[Irish people|Irish]], [[Welsh people|Welsh]], [[Spanish people|Spanish]] and [[Dutch people|Dutch]] descent.


Cooper's media experience began early. As a baby, he was photographed by [[Diane Arbus]] for ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]''.<ref name=artsjournal>{{cite web|url=http://www.artsjournal.com/man/archives20050301.shtml#97980|title=MODERN ART NOTES: Name That Baby|last=Green |first=Tyler |work=ArtsJournal|accessdate=2007-06-30}}</ref><ref name=arbus>Patricia Bosworth, "Diane Arbus: A Biography", NY: W.W. Norton, 1984</ref> At the age of three, Cooper was a guest on ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' on September 17, 1970, when he appeared with his mother, [[Gloria Vanderbilt]].<ref name=times1970>''[[The New York Times]]'', September 17, 1970, page 95.</ref> From age 10 to 13, Cooper modeled with [[Ford Models]] for [[Ralph Lauren]], [[Calvin Klein]] and [[Macy's]].<ref name="Van Meter" />
The word's etymology is uncertain. It is clearly related to the [[Norman language|Norman]] ''jonquette'' (a kind of cream made with boiled milk, egg yolks, sugar and caramel). However it may derive from the [[Italian language|Italian]] ''giuncata'' or directly from the [[medieval Latin]] ''juncata''. The first recorded use (in this sense) is in "The boke of nurture, folowyng Englondis gise"<ref> {{cite book | first=John | last=Russell | authorlink=John Russell | year=c. 1460 | title=The boke of nurture, folowyng Englondis gise }}</ref>

Cooper's father suffered a series of heart attacks, and died January 5, 1978 while undergoing open-heart surgery at the age of 50. This is said to have affected the young Cooper "enormously." He has said, in retrospect, "I think I’m a lot like my father in several ways," including "that we look a lot alike and that we have a similar sense of humor and a love of storytelling." Cooper considers his father's book ''Families'' to be "sort of a guide on...how he would have wanted me to live my life and the choices he would have wanted me to make. And so I feel very connected to him."<ref name="Van Meter">[http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/14301/ Van Meter, Jonathan, "Unanchored," ''New York''], September 19, 2005 (Retrieved on September 27, 2006).</ref>

After graduating from the [[Dalton School]] at age 17, Cooper went to [[southern Africa]] in a "13-ton British Army truck" during which time he contracted [[malaria]] and required hospitalization in [[Kenya]]. Describing the experience, Cooper wrote "Africa was a place to forget and be forgotten in."<ref name="Van Meter"/><ref name="Bronson" />

Cooper's older brother, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, committed suicide on July 22, 1988, at age 23, by jumping from the 14th-floor terrace of Vanderbilt's [[New York City]] penthouse apartment. Gloria Vanderbilt later wrote about her son's death in the book ''A Mother's Story,'' in which she expresses her belief that the suicide was caused by a [[Psychosis|psychotic episode]] induced by an [[allergy]] to the anti-[[asthma]] [[prescription drug]] [[Proventil]]. Carter's suicide is apparently what sparked Anderson to become a journalist:

<blockquote>Loss is a theme that I think a lot about, and it’s something in my work that I dwell on. I think when you experience any kind of loss, especially the kind I did, you have questions about survival: Why do some people thrive in situations that others can’t tolerate? Would I be able to survive and get on in the world on my own?<ref name="Van Meter"/></blockquote>

Cooper also has two older half-brothers, Leopold Stanislaus Stokowski (born 1950) and Christopher Stokowski (born 1952), from Gloria Vanderbilt's ten-year marriage to the conductor [[Leopold Stokowski]].

Cooper has never married and has actively avoided discussing his relationships, citing a desire to protect his neutrality as a journalist:
<blockquote>I understand why people might be interested. But I just don’t talk about my [[personal life]]. It’s a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life. The whole thing about being a reporter is that you're supposed to be an observer and to be able to adapt with any group you’re in, and I don’t want to do anything that threatens that.<ref name="Van Meter"/></blockquote>

His public reticence contrasts deliberately with his mother's life spent in the spotlight of [[tabloid]] journalists and her publication of memoirs explicitly detailing her affairs with celebrities.<ref name=gloriacbsnews>{{cite web |title=Gloria Vanderbilt's Many Loves: Heiress Discusses The Romances And Tragedies Of Her Life |date=[[2005-07-31]] |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/05/sunday/main654006.shtml |accessdate=2007-06-30 |work=[[CBS News Sunday Morning]]}}</ref> While Cooper has kept many aspects of his personal life private, he has discussed his desire to have a family and children.<ref name="Bronson" />

He also said to [[Oprah Winfrey]] while promoting his book that he had suffered from [[dyslexia]] as a child.<ref name=oprah>{{cite web |title=Books That Made a Difference to Anderson Cooper |url=http://www.oprah.com/obc/omag/obc_omag_200507_books.jhtml |month=July | year=2005 |accessdate=2007-06-30 |work=[[O, The Oprah Magazine]]}}</ref> He confirmed his "mild dyslexia" on ''[[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno|The Tonight Show]]'' to Jay Leno, who also has dyslexia, on August 1, 2007.

On March 19, 2008, Cooper mentioned on his blog that he had minor surgery under his left eye to remove a "small spot of skin cancer".<ref>{{cite web |url= http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/page/2/ |title=Anderson Cooper 360: 2008 March &lt;&lt; - Blogs from CNN.com |accessdate=2008-03-20 |last=Cooper |first=Anderson |date=March 19 |year=2008 |quote=On a personal note, I’ve been off for the last couple of days. I had minor surgery on Monday. A small spot of skin cancer was removed from under my left eye.}}</ref>

===Education===
Cooper graduated from [[The Dalton School]] in 1985. He continued his education at [[Yale University]], where he resided in [[Trumbull College]], claimed membership in [[Manuscript Society]] (one of the secret senior societies), studied both [[Political Science]] and [[International Relations]] and graduated in 1989.

During college, he spent two summers as an intern at the [[Central Intelligence Agency]]. Although he technically has no formal journalistic education, he opted to pursue a career in journalism rather than stay with the agency after school,<ref name=radaronline>{{cite web |url=http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2006/09/anderson-coopers-cia-secret.php |last=Bercovici |first=Jeff |title=Anderson Cooper's CIA secret |work=Radar |date=[[2006-09-06]] |accessdate=2007-06-30}}</ref> having been a "news junkie" "since I was ''in utero.''"<ref name="Hirschman">{{cite web |last=Hirschman |first=David S. |url= http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a1582.asp |title=So what do you do, Anderson Cooper? |work=Mediabistro.com|date=[[2006-05-11]]|accessdate=2007-06-30}}</ref>

After his first correspondence work in very early 1990s, he took a break from reporting and lived in [[Vietnam]] for a year, during which time he studied the [[Vietnamese language]] at the [[University of Hanoi]]. Speaking of his experiences in Vietnam on [[C-SPAN|C-SPAN's]] ''Students & Leaders'', he said he has since forgotten how to speak the language.

==Television work==
===Channel One===
After Cooper graduated from Yale University, he tried to gain entry-level employment with [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] answering telephones, but was unsuccessful. Finding it hard to get his foot in the door of on-air reporting, Cooper decided to enlist the help of a friend in making a fake press pass. At the time, Cooper was working as a fact checker for Channel One.<ref>[http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a1582.asp mediabistro.com: Articles: So What Do You Do, Anderson Cooper?<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Cooper then entered Burma on his own with his forged press pass and met with students fighting the Burmese government.<ref name="Hirschman"/> He was ultimately able to sell his home-made news segments to the small news agency of [[Channel One News|Channel One]], which produces a youth-oriented news program that is broadcast to many junior high and high schools in the United States.

After reporting from Burma, Cooper lived in Vietnam for a year and then returned to filming stories from a variety of war-torn regions around the globe, including [[Somalia]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]] and [[Rwanda]]. Haunted by his brother's suicide, Cooper explains, "The only thing I really knew is that I was hurting and needed to go someplace where the pain outside matched the pain I was feeling inside." Cooper describes himself as having become "fascinated with conflict" during this dangerous period of his life.

On assignment for several years, Cooper had slowly become desensitized to the violence he was witnessing around him; the horrors of the [[Rwandan Genocide]] became trivial: "I would see a dozen bodies and think, you know, It's a dozen, it's not so bad".<ref name="Bronson">"Anderson Cooper's Private War" by [[Po Bronson]]; ''Men's Journal'', March 2007</ref> One particular incident however snapped him out of it:

<blockquote>On the side of the road [Cooper] came across five bodies that had been in the sun for several days. The skin of a woman's hand was peeling off like a glove. Revealing [[macabre]] fascination, Cooper whipped out his disposable camera and took a closeup photograph for his personal album. As he did, someone took a photo of him. Later that person showed Cooper the photo, saying, "You need to take a look at what you were doing." "And that's when I realized I've got to stop, [...] I've got to report on some state fairs or a beauty pageant or something, to just, like, remind myself of some perspective."<ref name="Bronson" /></blockquote>

===ABC===
[[Image:AndersonCooper07.jpg|thumb|[[Anderson Cooper]] at [[Qualcomm Stadium]] during the [[California wildfires of October 2007]].]]
In 1995, Cooper became a correspondent for [[ABC News]], eventually rising to the position of co-anchor on their overnight ''[[World News Now]]'' program on September 21, 1999. In 2000 he switched career paths, taking a job as the host of ABC's reality show ''[[The Mole (US TV series)|The Mole]]'':

{{quote|My last year at ABC, I was working overnights anchoring this newscast then during the day at ''20/20''. So I was sleeping in two- or four-hour shifts, and I was really tired and wanted a change. I wanted to clear my head and get out of news a little bit, and I was interested in reality TV&mdash;and it ''was'' interesting.<ref name="Hirschman"/>}}

Cooper was also a fill-in co-host for [[Regis Philbin]] for the TV [[talk show]] ''[[Live with Regis and Kelly]]'' in 2007 when Philbin underwent triple bypass heart surgery. He recapped the show for viewers of ''Anderson Cooper 360'', often poking fun at the way he laughed.

===CNN===
He left ''[[The Mole (US TV series)|The Mole]]'' after its [[Mole 2: The Next Betrayal|second season]] to return to broadcast news in 2001 at CNN, commenting that: "Two seasons was enough, and [[September 11, 2001 attacks|9/11]] happened, and I thought I needed to be getting back to news.<ref name="Hirschman"/>" His first position at CNN was to anchor alongside [[Paula Zahn]] on ''[[American Morning]]''. In 2002 he became CNN's weekend prime time anchor. Since 2002, he has hosted CNN's [[New Year's Eve]] special from [[Times Square]]. On September 8, 2003 he was made anchor of ''[[Anderson Cooper 360°]]''.

Describing his [[philosophy]] as an [[News presenter|anchor]], Cooper has said:

{{quote|I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away, the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don't think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don't buy it. I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it. I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The [[Kent Brockman|anchorman on ''The Simpsons'']] is a reasonable [[facsimile]] of some anchors who have that problem.<ref name="Hirschman"/>}}

Cooper covered a number of important stories in 2005, including the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake|tsunami damage]] in [[Sri Lanka]], the [[Cedar Revolution]] in [[Beirut]], [[Lebanon]], the [[death of Pope John Paul II]], and the [[Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles|royal wedding]] of Prince Charles and [[Camilla Parker Bowles]].

[[Image:ACooper.jpg|thumb|Cooper marching on January 11, 2007 in [[New Orleans]] against violence.]]
[[Image:Dispatches from the Edge.jpg|thumb|Anderson Cooper, on the jacket of his book ''Dispatches from the Edge.''|{{deletable image-caption|1=Monday, 6 October 2008}}]]

During CNN coverage of the aftermath of [[Hurricane Katrina]], he confronted Sen. [[Mary Landrieu]], Sen. [[Trent Lott]], and the Rev. [[Jesse Jackson]] about their perception of the government response. As Cooper later said in an interview with ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine, “Yeah, I would prefer not to be emotional and I would prefer not to get upset, but it’s hard not to when you’re surrounded by brave people who are suffering and in need.”<ref name="Van Meter" /> As ''Broadcasting & Cable'' magazine noted, "In its aftermath, Hurricane Katrina served to usher in a new breed of emo-journalism, skyrocketing CNN's Anderson Cooper to superstardom as CNN's golden boy and a darling of the media circles because of his impassioned coverage of the storm."<ref name=bandc>{{cite web |title=Blown Away by Katrina |date=[[2005-12-12]] |url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6290441.html |work=[[Broadcasting & Cable]] |accessdate=2007-06-30}}</ref>

In August 2005, he covered the [[Niger famine]] from [[Maradi]].

In September 2005 the format of CNN's ''[[NewsNight with Aaron Brown|NewsNight]]'' was changed from 60 to 120 minutes to cover the unusually violent [[2005 Atlantic hurricane season|hurricane season]]. To help distribute some of the increased workload, Cooper was temporarily added as co-anchor to [[Aaron Brown]]. This arrangement was reported to have been made permanent the same month by the president of CNN's U.S. operations, [[Jonathan Klein]], who has called Cooper "the anchorperson of the future."<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/arts/television/12coop.html?ex=1284177600&en=7760c7061425d10a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss Jensen, Elizabeth, "An anchor who reports disaster news with a heart on his sleeve", ''The New York Times''], September 12, 2005 (Retrieved September 27, 2006).</ref>
Following the addition of Cooper, the ratings for ''NewsNight'' increased significantly; Klein remarked that "[Cooper's] name has been on the tip of everyone's tongue."<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/03/business/media/03fcnn.html?ex=1288674000&en=b527c6dd4e966bc9&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss Carter, Bill, "CNN ousts evening anchor and embraces rising star", ''The New York Times''], November 3, 2005 (Retrieved September 27, 2006).</ref> To further capitalize on this, Klein announced a major programming shakeup on November 2, 2005. Cooper's ''360°'' program would be expanded to 2 hours and shifted into the 10 p.m. ET slot formerly held by ''NewsNight'', with the third hour of [[Wolf Blitzer]]'s ''[[The Situation Room]]'' filling in Cooper's former 7 p.m. ET slot. With "no options" left for him to host shows, [[Aaron Brown]] left CNN, ostensibly after having "mutually agreed" with Jonathan Klein on the matter.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/business/media/02cnd-cnn.html?ex=1288587600&en=d8eb4f8cf2480e11&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Carter, Bill, "CNN ousts Aaron Brown and gives slot to Anderson Cooper", ''The New York Times''], November 2, 2005 (Retrieved September 27, 2006).</ref> In early 2007, Cooper signed a multi-year deal with CNN, which would allow him to continue as a contributor to ''[[60 Minutes]]'' as well as doubling his salary from $2 million annually to a reported $4 million.<ref>[http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6408610.html?title=Article&spacedesc=news "Exclusive: Anderson Cooper Signs New Multiyear Deal with CNN," ''Broadcasting & Cable''], January 19, 2007</ref>

In October 2007, Cooper began hosting the documentary, [[Planet in Peril]], with [[Sanjay Gupta]] and [[Jeff Corwin]] on CNN.

==Writings==
*Cooper is a [[freelance]] writer whose articles have appeared in many other outlets, including ''[[Details (magazine)|Details]]'' magazine.<ref name=details>{{cite web | url=http://www.iwantmedia.com/people/people54.html | title=Anderson Cooper: 'I Didn't Go to Anchor School' |accessdate=2007-01-03 | publisher=I Want Media | author=Patrick Phillips| date=[[2007-03-01]]}}</ref>
*In May 2006 Cooper published ''Dispatches from the Edge'', a [[memoir]] for [[HarperCollins]] detailing his life and work in [[Sri Lanka]], Africa, [[Iraq]] and [[Louisiana]] over the previous year. Some of the book's proceeds are donated to charity. The book topped the [[New York Times bestseller list]] on June 18, 2006.<ref name=topbook>{{cite web| url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/427186p-360294c.html | title=Side Dish| accessdate=2007-01-03| publisher=''New York Daily News''}}</ref>

==Awards==
*2005 National Headliners Award for his [[Tsunami#2004 - Indian Ocean tsunami|tsunami]] coverage<ref name=natheadawards>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalheadlinerawards.com/Winners2005Broadcast.html |title=2005 National Headliner Award Winners: Broadcast television networks, cable networks, and syndicators |work=NationalHeadlinerAwards.com}}</ref>
* An Emmy Award for his contribution to ABC's coverage of [[Princess Diana#Funeral and public reaction|Princess Diana's funeral]] and another in 2006 for ''Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story - Long Form'' for his report on the famine in Niger<ref name=emmy2>{{cite web |url=http://www.emmyonline.org/emmy/docu_27th_winners_b.html |title=27th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards |work=EmmyOnline.org |date=[[2006-09-25]] |accessdate=2007-06-30}}</ref>
*Silver Plaque from the Chicago International Film Festival for his report from [[Sarajevo]] on the [[History of Bosnia and Herzegovina#Bosnian War|Bosnian civil war]]
*Bronze Telly for his coverage of famine in [[Somalia]] {{Fact|date=September 2008}}
*Bronze Award from the National Educational Film and Video Festival for a report on [[Islam as a political movement|political Islam]]
*2001 [[GLAAD]] Media Award for Outstanding TV Journalism for "High School Hero," his ''[[20/20|20/20 Downtown]]'' report on high school athlete Corey Johnson<ref>{{cite news |title=GLAAD Honors Redgrave, Smith |work=THE ADVOCATE News & Politics |publisher=[[PlanetOut]] |date=2001-04-17 |url=http://planetout.com/news/article.html?2001/04/17/3 |accessdate=2008-06-26}}
*<span style="color:#343434">Old source /content unavailable:<br>{{cite press release |title=12th Annual GLAAD Media Awards |publisher=GLAAD.org |date=2001-04-16 |url= http://www.glaad.org/publications/archive_detail.php?id=49&PHPSESSID=f}}</span></ref>

==Career timeline==
*1999&ndash;2000: [[World News Now]] co-anchor<ref name=autogenerated1>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0177846/ Anderson Cooper<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
*2001&ndash;2002: [[The Mole (US TV series)|The Mole]] host<ref name=autogenerated1 />
*2003&ndash;present: [[Anderson Cooper 360°]] anchor<ref name=autogenerated1 />
*2005: [[Newsnight]] co-anchor<ref name=autogenerated1 />
*2007: [[60 minutes]] correspondent<ref name=autogenerated1 />


==References==
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==External links==
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===Official sites===
*[http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/ Anderson Cooper 360°]
*[http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/ Anderson Cooper 360° Blog]
*[http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/cooper.anderson.html CNN: Anchors & Reporters: Anderson Cooper] (profile)

===News and media===
*August 16, 2005: [http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/16/brother/ "My brother's suicide"] from ''CNN''
*September 29, 2005: [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117929983?categoryid=14&cs=1 "CNN programs Cooper boost"] from ''Variety''
*October 12, 2005: [http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/news/publisher/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001304244 "Anderson Cooper Memoir Goes to HarperCollins in $1 Million Deal"] from ''The Book Standard''
*May 31, 2006: [http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/news/author/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002610759 "Anderson Cooper Almost Comes Out On Top"] with sales information for his book, from ''The Book Standard''
*April 2008 Ranked second on [http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=22394 The Power 50: The Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America] by Out.com

===Profiles===
*[http://usliberals.about.com/od/peopleinthenews/p/AndersonCooper.htm Anderson Cooper] on [[About.com]]
*{{imdb name|id=0177846|name=Anderson Cooper}}
*[http://www.nndb.com/people/482/000047341/ Anderson Cooper] on the [[Notable Names Database]]
*[http://www.tvweek.com/news/2007/09/anderson_cooper_cnn_planet_peril.php Q&A with Anderson Cooper on CNN's Planet in Peril]
*Cspan [http://www.studentsandleaders.org/newyork/video/anderson_cooper.asp "Students and Leaders"]

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Anderson Cooper
Cooper at Wolfson Children's Hospital, 2007-10-20
Born
Anderson Hays Cooper

(1967-06-03) June 3, 1967 (age 56)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation(s)Broadcast journalist, Author
Notable credit(s)World News Now co-anchor (1999–2000)
American Morning anchor (2002)
Anderson Cooper 360° anchor (2003–Present)
RelativesGloria Vanderbilt (mother)
Wyatt Emory Cooper (father)
Websitehttp://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/cooper.anderson.html

Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is an American Emmy Award-winning journalist, author and television personality. He currently works as the primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360°. The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City studio; however, Cooper often broadcasts live on location for breaking news stories.

Background

Cooper was born on June 3, 1967 in New York City, the younger son of the writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and the artist, designer, writer, and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt II of the prominent Vanderbilt Family of New York. His ancestry is primarily of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Spanish and Dutch descent.

Cooper's media experience began early. As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus for Harper's Bazaar.[1][2] At the age of three, Cooper was a guest on The Tonight Show on September 17, 1970, when he appeared with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt.[3] From age 10 to 13, Cooper modeled with Ford Models for Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Macy's.[4]

Cooper's father suffered a series of heart attacks, and died January 5, 1978 while undergoing open-heart surgery at the age of 50. This is said to have affected the young Cooper "enormously." He has said, in retrospect, "I think I’m a lot like my father in several ways," including "that we look a lot alike and that we have a similar sense of humor and a love of storytelling." Cooper considers his father's book Families to be "sort of a guide on...how he would have wanted me to live my life and the choices he would have wanted me to make. And so I feel very connected to him."[4]

After graduating from the Dalton School at age 17, Cooper went to southern Africa in a "13-ton British Army truck" during which time he contracted malaria and required hospitalization in Kenya. Describing the experience, Cooper wrote "Africa was a place to forget and be forgotten in."[4][5]

Cooper's older brother, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, committed suicide on July 22, 1988, at age 23, by jumping from the 14th-floor terrace of Vanderbilt's New York City penthouse apartment. Gloria Vanderbilt later wrote about her son's death in the book A Mother's Story, in which she expresses her belief that the suicide was caused by a psychotic episode induced by an allergy to the anti-asthma prescription drug Proventil. Carter's suicide is apparently what sparked Anderson to become a journalist:

Loss is a theme that I think a lot about, and it’s something in my work that I dwell on. I think when you experience any kind of loss, especially the kind I did, you have questions about survival: Why do some people thrive in situations that others can’t tolerate? Would I be able to survive and get on in the world on my own?[4]

Cooper also has two older half-brothers, Leopold Stanislaus Stokowski (born 1950) and Christopher Stokowski (born 1952), from Gloria Vanderbilt's ten-year marriage to the conductor Leopold Stokowski.

Cooper has never married and has actively avoided discussing his relationships, citing a desire to protect his neutrality as a journalist:

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don’t talk about my personal life. It’s a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life. The whole thing about being a reporter is that you're supposed to be an observer and to be able to adapt with any group you’re in, and I don’t want to do anything that threatens that.[4]

His public reticence contrasts deliberately with his mother's life spent in the spotlight of tabloid journalists and her publication of memoirs explicitly detailing her affairs with celebrities.[6] While Cooper has kept many aspects of his personal life private, he has discussed his desire to have a family and children.[5]

He also said to Oprah Winfrey while promoting his book that he had suffered from dyslexia as a child.[7] He confirmed his "mild dyslexia" on The Tonight Show to Jay Leno, who also has dyslexia, on August 1, 2007.

On March 19, 2008, Cooper mentioned on his blog that he had minor surgery under his left eye to remove a "small spot of skin cancer".[8]

Education

Cooper graduated from The Dalton School in 1985. He continued his education at Yale University, where he resided in Trumbull College, claimed membership in Manuscript Society (one of the secret senior societies), studied both Political Science and International Relations and graduated in 1989.

During college, he spent two summers as an intern at the Central Intelligence Agency. Although he technically has no formal journalistic education, he opted to pursue a career in journalism rather than stay with the agency after school,[9] having been a "news junkie" "since I was in utero."[10]

After his first correspondence work in very early 1990s, he took a break from reporting and lived in Vietnam for a year, during which time he studied the Vietnamese language at the University of Hanoi. Speaking of his experiences in Vietnam on C-SPAN's Students & Leaders, he said he has since forgotten how to speak the language.

Television work

Channel One

After Cooper graduated from Yale University, he tried to gain entry-level employment with ABC answering telephones, but was unsuccessful. Finding it hard to get his foot in the door of on-air reporting, Cooper decided to enlist the help of a friend in making a fake press pass. At the time, Cooper was working as a fact checker for Channel One.[11] Cooper then entered Burma on his own with his forged press pass and met with students fighting the Burmese government.[10] He was ultimately able to sell his home-made news segments to the small news agency of Channel One, which produces a youth-oriented news program that is broadcast to many junior high and high schools in the United States.

After reporting from Burma, Cooper lived in Vietnam for a year and then returned to filming stories from a variety of war-torn regions around the globe, including Somalia, Bosnia and Rwanda. Haunted by his brother's suicide, Cooper explains, "The only thing I really knew is that I was hurting and needed to go someplace where the pain outside matched the pain I was feeling inside." Cooper describes himself as having become "fascinated with conflict" during this dangerous period of his life.

On assignment for several years, Cooper had slowly become desensitized to the violence he was witnessing around him; the horrors of the Rwandan Genocide became trivial: "I would see a dozen bodies and think, you know, It's a dozen, it's not so bad".[5] One particular incident however snapped him out of it:

On the side of the road [Cooper] came across five bodies that had been in the sun for several days. The skin of a woman's hand was peeling off like a glove. Revealing macabre fascination, Cooper whipped out his disposable camera and took a closeup photograph for his personal album. As he did, someone took a photo of him. Later that person showed Cooper the photo, saying, "You need to take a look at what you were doing." "And that's when I realized I've got to stop, [...] I've got to report on some state fairs or a beauty pageant or something, to just, like, remind myself of some perspective."[5]

ABC

Anderson Cooper at Qualcomm Stadium during the California wildfires of October 2007.

In 1995, Cooper became a correspondent for ABC News, eventually rising to the position of co-anchor on their overnight World News Now program on September 21, 1999. In 2000 he switched career paths, taking a job as the host of ABC's reality show The Mole:

My last year at ABC, I was working overnights anchoring this newscast then during the day at 20/20. So I was sleeping in two- or four-hour shifts, and I was really tired and wanted a change. I wanted to clear my head and get out of news a little bit, and I was interested in reality TV—and it was interesting.[10]

Cooper was also a fill-in co-host for Regis Philbin for the TV talk show Live with Regis and Kelly in 2007 when Philbin underwent triple bypass heart surgery. He recapped the show for viewers of Anderson Cooper 360, often poking fun at the way he laughed.

CNN

He left The Mole after its second season to return to broadcast news in 2001 at CNN, commenting that: "Two seasons was enough, and 9/11 happened, and I thought I needed to be getting back to news.[10]" His first position at CNN was to anchor alongside Paula Zahn on American Morning. In 2002 he became CNN's weekend prime time anchor. Since 2002, he has hosted CNN's New Year's Eve special from Times Square. On September 8, 2003 he was made anchor of Anderson Cooper 360°.

Describing his philosophy as an anchor, Cooper has said:

I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away, the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don't think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don't buy it. I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it. I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on The Simpsons is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem.[10]

Cooper covered a number of important stories in 2005, including the tsunami damage in Sri Lanka, the Cedar Revolution in Beirut, Lebanon, the death of Pope John Paul II, and the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.

Cooper marching on January 11, 2007 in New Orleans against violence.
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During CNN coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he confronted Sen. Mary Landrieu, Sen. Trent Lott, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson about their perception of the government response. As Cooper later said in an interview with New York magazine, “Yeah, I would prefer not to be emotional and I would prefer not to get upset, but it’s hard not to when you’re surrounded by brave people who are suffering and in need.”[4] As Broadcasting & Cable magazine noted, "In its aftermath, Hurricane Katrina served to usher in a new breed of emo-journalism, skyrocketing CNN's Anderson Cooper to superstardom as CNN's golden boy and a darling of the media circles because of his impassioned coverage of the storm."[12]

In August 2005, he covered the Niger famine from Maradi.

In September 2005 the format of CNN's NewsNight was changed from 60 to 120 minutes to cover the unusually violent hurricane season. To help distribute some of the increased workload, Cooper was temporarily added as co-anchor to Aaron Brown. This arrangement was reported to have been made permanent the same month by the president of CNN's U.S. operations, Jonathan Klein, who has called Cooper "the anchorperson of the future."[13] Following the addition of Cooper, the ratings for NewsNight increased significantly; Klein remarked that "[Cooper's] name has been on the tip of everyone's tongue."[14] To further capitalize on this, Klein announced a major programming shakeup on November 2, 2005. Cooper's 360° program would be expanded to 2 hours and shifted into the 10 p.m. ET slot formerly held by NewsNight, with the third hour of Wolf Blitzer's The Situation Room filling in Cooper's former 7 p.m. ET slot. With "no options" left for him to host shows, Aaron Brown left CNN, ostensibly after having "mutually agreed" with Jonathan Klein on the matter.[15] In early 2007, Cooper signed a multi-year deal with CNN, which would allow him to continue as a contributor to 60 Minutes as well as doubling his salary from $2 million annually to a reported $4 million.[16]

In October 2007, Cooper began hosting the documentary, Planet in Peril, with Sanjay Gupta and Jeff Corwin on CNN.

Writings

Awards

  • 2005 National Headliners Award for his tsunami coverage[19]
  • An Emmy Award for his contribution to ABC's coverage of Princess Diana's funeral and another in 2006 for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story - Long Form for his report on the famine in Niger[20]
  • Silver Plaque from the Chicago International Film Festival for his report from Sarajevo on the Bosnian civil war
  • Bronze Telly for his coverage of famine in Somalia [citation needed]
  • Bronze Award from the National Educational Film and Video Festival for a report on political Islam
  • 2001 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Journalism for "High School Hero," his 20/20 Downtown report on high school athlete Corey Johnson[21]

Career timeline

References

  1. ^ Green, Tyler. "MODERN ART NOTES: Name That Baby". ArtsJournal. Retrieved 2007-06-30.
  2. ^ Patricia Bosworth, "Diane Arbus: A Biography", NY: W.W. Norton, 1984
  3. ^ The New York Times, September 17, 1970, page 95.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Van Meter, Jonathan, "Unanchored," New York, September 19, 2005 (Retrieved on September 27, 2006).
  5. ^ a b c d "Anderson Cooper's Private War" by Po Bronson; Men's Journal, March 2007
  6. ^ "Gloria Vanderbilt's Many Loves: Heiress Discusses The Romances And Tragedies Of Her Life". CBS News Sunday Morning. 2005-07-31. Retrieved 2007-06-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ "Books That Made a Difference to Anderson Cooper". O, The Oprah Magazine. 2005. Retrieved 2007-06-30. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  8. ^ Cooper, Anderson (March 19). "Anderson Cooper 360: 2008 March << - Blogs from CNN.com". Retrieved 2008-03-20. On a personal note, I've been off for the last couple of days. I had minor surgery on Monday. A small spot of skin cancer was removed from under my left eye. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
  9. ^ Bercovici, Jeff (2006-09-06). "Anderson Cooper's CIA secret". Radar. Retrieved 2007-06-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ a b c d e Hirschman, David S. (2006-05-11). "So what do you do, Anderson Cooper?". Mediabistro.com. Retrieved 2007-06-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ mediabistro.com: Articles: So What Do You Do, Anderson Cooper?
  12. ^ "Blown Away by Katrina". Broadcasting & Cable. 2005-12-12. Retrieved 2007-06-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ^ Jensen, Elizabeth, "An anchor who reports disaster news with a heart on his sleeve", The New York Times, September 12, 2005 (Retrieved September 27, 2006).
  14. ^ Carter, Bill, "CNN ousts evening anchor and embraces rising star", The New York Times, November 3, 2005 (Retrieved September 27, 2006).
  15. ^ Carter, Bill, "CNN ousts Aaron Brown and gives slot to Anderson Cooper", The New York Times, November 2, 2005 (Retrieved September 27, 2006).
  16. ^ "Exclusive: Anderson Cooper Signs New Multiyear Deal with CNN," Broadcasting & Cable, January 19, 2007
  17. ^ Patrick Phillips (2007-03-01). "Anderson Cooper: 'I Didn't Go to Anchor School'". I Want Media. Retrieved 2007-01-03. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  18. ^ "Side Dish". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2007-01-03. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  19. ^ "2005 National Headliner Award Winners: Broadcast television networks, cable networks, and syndicators". NationalHeadlinerAwards.com.
  20. ^ "27th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards". EmmyOnline.org. 2006-09-25. Retrieved 2007-06-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  21. ^ "GLAAD Honors Redgrave, Smith". THE ADVOCATE News & Politics. PlanetOut. 2001-04-17. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
  22. ^ a b c d e Anderson Cooper

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