Anderson Cooper is an American news anchor, journalist, television personality and author. He was born 1967 in Manhattan, New York, son to the famous writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and artists Gloria Vanderbilt. His family and ancestors are very famous for the Vanderbilt shipping and railroad fortune. He was brought up in the public eye and was a guest on the Tonight Show in 1970 with his mother. He is most famous for his appearance on the television show CNN, reporting from New York City. His father suffered from a series of heart diseases and died at age 50.
When Anderson was 10 he did modeling for Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, and Macy’s. He has attended Yale, Trumbull, and Dalton School College. He struggled to find a job after his time at Yale University but then started to sell his homemade news segments to Channel One. He started to report from Burma, Cooper lived in Vietnam to study the Vietnamese language at Hanoi University.
He then started to share reports from Vietnam which aired on Channel One. He later on reported from different war zones such as Somalia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. In 1995, he became a correspondent for ABC News, and his fame started to grow, eventually letting him be a co-anchor of the show World News Now. Later on, he became a news anchor at CNN, he became CNN's weekend prime-time anchor. After that, he went on to pursue his own career in the news anchor business, so he created his own show called Anderson Cooper 360.
In 2005,
Cooper covered a number of important stories, 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. In August 2005, he covered the Niger famine from Maradi. Now, he works at CNN hosting a news program, and he is a symbol for journalists and correspondents all over the world, but frankly in New York City.
The Biography of the Journalist Anderson Cooper
By: Emily Lomander
Grade: 9