Anderson Cooper

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Anderson Cooper (2007)

Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967 in New York ) is an American journalist and author. He hosts the television show Anderson Cooper 360 ° on CNN .

Life

Cooper was born on June 3, 1967 in New York City , the youngest son of Wyatt Emory Cooper and the millionaire heiress Gloria Vanderbilt . Cooper is great-great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt , who made a fortune of 185 billion US dollars (in today's purchasing power) in the shipbuilding and railroad business in the 19th century. He is related to Union General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick through his mother's line . He was photographed by Diane Arbus for Harper's Bazaar magazine as a baby . At age three, he was a guest on the Tonight Show on September 17, 1970, where he appeared with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt. Between the ages of ten and thirteen, he modeled for Ralph Lauren , Calvin Klein and Macy’s . After graduating from school at 17, he went to South Africa. On July 22, 1988, Cooper's older brother Carter Vanderbilt Cooper committed suicide by jumping from the rooftop of his 14th-floor penthouse in New York City . The death of his brother, whom her mother linked to the use of salbutamol , prompted Cooper to take up the profession of journalist. Cooper's half-brothers Leopold Stanislaus Stokowski (* 1950) and Christopher Stokowski (* 1952) come from his mother's first marriage to Leopold Stokowski .

After his stay in South Africa, Cooper studied politics and international relations at Yale University , graduating in 1989. During his college days, Cooper interned with the Central Intelligence Agency for two summers . He then worked as a journalist, even without any formal journalistic training. In the meantime he lived in Vietnam for a year in the 1990s , where he studied the Vietnamese language at the University of Hanoi . In 1995, Cooper became a correspondent for ABC News, and on September 21, 1999, he co-hosted World News Now . In 2000 he hosted the program The Mole on ABC. In 2001 he left ABC and began working for CNN , where he first hosted the American Morning news program with Paula Zahn . In 2002 he became a newscaster for weekend newscasts on CNN. Since 2002 he has hosted CNN's New Year's Eve special in Times Square and has been the main presenter of the Anderson Cooper 360 ° program since September 8, 2003 . He has also been a correspondent for the news magazine 60 Minutes since 2006 . In 2009, he hosted the parody of a television duel for the First Dog election for the Daily Show .

In the 2016 comic book adaptation Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice by Zack Snyder , he has a cameo in which he plays himself.

Since July 16, 2018, he has been moderating for CNN , Anderson Cooper Full Circle weekdays from 6:25 PM Eastern Time, on Facebook Watch .

Cooper lives in a former New York Fire Department building in Greenwich Village , Manhattan . He has not made a secret of his homosexuality for a long time, while he used to fear problems for his career. On April 30, 2020, he announced that his son Wyatt Morgan Cooper was born with the help of a surrogate mother .

Works

  • Anderson Cooper: Dispatches from the Edge. A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival . HarperCollins, New York 2006.
  • Gloria Vanderbilt, Anderson Cooper: The Rainbow Comes and Goes. A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss . HarperCollins, New York 2016.

Prizes and awards

State honors and medals
Peabody Award
Emmy Award (News & Documentary)
  • For his contribution to ABC: 1997 coverage of the funeral of Princess Diana - won
  • 2006: Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story - Long Form (ATAS / NATAS) for his report on the famine in Niger in Anderson Cooper 360 °: Starving in Plain Sight - won
  • 2006: Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast (ATAS / NATAS) for Anderson Cooper 360 °: Charity Hospital - won
  • 2007: Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story - Long Form (ATAS / NATAS) for Anderson Cooper 360 °: Sago Mines - nominated
  • 2007: Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Lighting Direction & Scenic Design (ATAS / NATAS) for Anderson Cooper 360 °: High Rise Crash - nominated
  • 2007: Outstanding Coverage of a Current Business News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast (Business & Financial Reporting) for Anderson Cooper 360 °: Black Market Infertility - nominated
  • 2008: Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast (ATAS / NATAS) for Anderson Cooper 360 °: Unapproved Drugs - nominated
  • 2008: Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast (ATAS / NATAS) for Anderson Cooper 360 °: Chicago Police Brutality - nominated
  • 2011: Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast (ATAS / NATAS) for its news coverage immediately after the 2010 Haiti earthquake in Anderson Cooper 360 °: Haiti in Ruins - won
  • 2011: Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story - Long Form (ATAS / NATAS) for its subsequent detailed report on the 2010 earthquake in Haiti in Anderson Cooper 360 °: Crisis in Haiti - won
Chicago International Film Festival
National Educational Film and Video Festival
  • Bronze Award for his report on Islamism
Telly Awards
  • 1993: Bronce Telly for his report on the famine in Somalia - won
National Headliner Award
GLAAD Media Award
  • : 2001 Outstanding Journalism on TV for High School Hero , his contribution over the high school student Corey Johnson in the news magazine 20/20 Downtown - won
  • 2013: Vito Russo Award - special honor - out of competition
Out magazine
  • 2008: 3rd place in the 50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America
  • 2009: 3rd place in the 50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America

literature

Web links

Commons : Anderson Cooper  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History.com (Eng.)
  2. ↑ Patricia Bosworth : Diane Arbus. A biography . NY: WW Norton, 1984.
  3. ↑ Tyler Green, MODERN ART NOTES: Name That Baby, ArtsJournal, Found June 30, 2007.
  4. ^ The New York Times, Sep 17, 1970, 95.
  5. ^ Road to the Doghouse - Puppedential Debate
  6. ^ Todd Spangler: Facebook's First Wave of Funded News Shows Will Debut July 16, With More on the Way . July 11, 2018. Retrieved July 15, 2018.
  7. ^ Zoe Rosenberg: Anderson Cooper offers a peek into his Greenwich Village firehouse . In: NY Curbed , March 15, 2018. 
  8. ^ Revelation Signals a Shift in Views of Homosexuality
  9. ↑ Anderson Cooper announces the birth of his son Wyatt: 'Our family continues'
  10. ↑ Jonathan M. Katz: Medals for Haiti recovery, little for homeless . In: Associated Press / The Huffington Post , July 13, 2010. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  11. ^ A b c Stephanie Watson: Anderson Cooper: Profile of a TV Journalist . Rosen Publishing Group, 2007, ISBN 1-4042-1907-2 , pp. 61-62.
  12. ^ Coverage of Hurricane Katrina 2005 . In: The Peabody Awards , www.peabody.uga.edu. Archived from the original on June 10, 2010. Retrieved July 13, 2010. 
  13. ↑ a b c d e Mike Karsnak: Tenacity marks winning careers of TV journalist, marketing CEO - Honorary degree recipients . In: The Star-Ledger , May 12, 2005, p. 2. 
  14. ↑ a b Michele Willer-Allred: For CNN's Cooper, desire to travel leads to career . In: Ventura County Star , February 17, 2009. 
  15. ↑ a b 27th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards . In: EmmyOnline.org . September 25, 2006. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2007.
  16. ↑ a b Associated Press : CBS and PBS lead winners of Emmy news awards . In: The Record , September 27, 2006, p. B5. 
  17. ↑ a b 28th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards Nominees . In: EmmyOnline.org . September 28, 2011. Archived from the original on December 2, 2007. Retrieved July 17, 2007.
  18. ^ A b News and Docu Emmy Nominations 2008: PBS is Frontrunner . In: emanuellevy.com . September 27, 2011. Retrieved July 15, 2008.
  19. ↑ a b 32nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards . In: EmmyOnline.org . September 26, 2011. Archived from the original on September 29, 2011. Retrieved on September 26, 2011.
  20. ^ A b Anchors & Reporters - Anderson Cooper . In: CNN , Time Warner . Archived from the original on July 15, 2010. Retrieved July 13, 2010. 
  21. ↑ 2005 National Headliner Award Winners: Broadcast television networks, cable networks, and syndicators . In: NationalHeadlinerAwards.com . Archived from the original on May 5, 2006.
  22. ↑ Headliner Award winners . In: The Press of Atlantic City , South Jersey Publishing Company, May 15, 2005, p. C6. 
  23. ↑ 12th Annual GLAAD Media Awards ( Memento from June 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) ~ GLAAD.org from April 16, 2001. Archived from the original on June 4, 2008.
  24. ^ Ricky Carter: Anderson Cooper to receive Vitto Russo Award at the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards . In: GLAAD.org . February 21, 2013. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
  25. ↑ a b 4th Annual Power 50 . In: out.com . Archived from the original on April 17, 2010. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Cooper, Anderson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cooper, Anderson Hays
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd June 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City