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{{Short description|American journalist (born 1967)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Anderson Cooper
| image              = Anderson Cooper (44675408934) (cropped).jpg
| caption            = Cooper in 2018
| birth_name         = Anderson Hays Cooper
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1967|6|3}}
| birth_place        = New York City, New York, U.S.
| alma_mater         = [[Yale University]]
| occupation         = {{hlist|Broadcast journalist|political commentator}}
| years_active       = 1990–present
| parents            = {{ubl|[[Wyatt Emory Cooper]]|[[Gloria Vanderbilt]]}}
| relatives          = [[Vanderbilt family]]
| children           = 2
| television         = {{Ubl
  |''[[Anderson Cooper 360°]]''
  |''[[Anderson Live]]''
  |''[[Anderson Cooper Full Circle]]''
  |''The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper''
}}
| employer           = {{Ubl
  |[[Channel One News]] (1990–1995)
  |[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] (1995–2000)
  |[[CNN]] (2001–present)
  |[[60 Minutes]] (2006–present)
}}
}}
'''Anderson Hays Cooper''' (born June 3, 1967)<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Karger|first=Dave|date=May 23, 2006|title=Anderson Cooper, memoirist – and ''Idol'' fanatic|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|url=http://ew.com/article/2006/05/23/anderson-cooper-memoirist-and-idol-fanatic/|url-status=live|access-date=July 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150901130817/http://www.ew.com/article/2006/05/23/anderson-cooper-memoirist-and-idol-fanatic|archive-date=September 1, 2015}}</ref> is an American broadcast journalist and political commentator who anchors the [[CNN]] news broadcast show ''[[Anderson Cooper 360°]]''. In addition to his duties at CNN, Cooper serves as a correspondent for ''[[60 Minutes]]'', produced by [[CBS News]]. After graduating from [[Yale University]] with a Bachelor of Arts in 1989, he began traveling the world, shooting footage of war-torn regions for [[Channel One News]]. Cooper was hired by [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] as a correspondent in 1995, but he soon took more jobs throughout the network, working for a short time as a co-anchor, [[reality television|reality game show]] host, and fill-in morning talk show host.

In 2001, Cooper joined CNN, where he was given his own show, ''Anderson Cooper 360°''; he has remained the show's host since. He developed a reputation for his [[reporter|on-the-ground reporting]] of breaking news events, with his coverage of [[Hurricane Katrina]] causing his popularity to sharply increase. For his coverage of the [[2010 Haiti earthquake]], Cooper received a [[National Order of Honour and Merit]], the highest honor granted by the [[Haitian government]]. From September 2011 to May 2013, he also served as the host of his own [[syndicated television]] daytime talk show, ''[[Anderson Live]]''.

Cooper has won 18 [[Emmy Award]]s and two [[Peabody Award]]s, as well as an [[Edward Murrow Award (Overseas Press Club of America)|Edward Murrow Award]] from the [[Overseas Press Club]] in 2011. A member of the [[Vanderbilt family]], he came out as gay in 2012, becoming "the most prominent gay journalist on American television".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stelter |first=Brian |date=July 2, 2012 |title=Revelation Signals a Shift in Views of Homosexuality |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/anderson-cooper-says-the-fact-is-im-gay/ |access-date=March 12, 2023 |website=Media Decoder Blog |language=en}}</ref> In 2016, Cooper became the first LGBT person to moderate a [[United States presidential debates|presidential debate]], and he has received several [[GLAAD Media Award]]s.

==Early life and education==
Cooper was born in [[Manhattan]], New York City, the younger son of writer [[Wyatt Emory Cooper]] and artist [[Gloria Vanderbilt]]. His maternal grandparents were millionaire equestrian [[Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt]] of the [[Vanderbilt family]] and socialite [[Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt]], and Reginald's patrilineal great-grandfather was business magnate [[Cornelius Vanderbilt]], who founded the prominent Vanderbilt shipping and railroad fortune.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Whitaker|first=Barbara|date=July 27, 1988|title=Simple Service for Vanderbilt's Son|page=4; Section: News|work=Newsday}}</ref> He has two older half-brothers, Leopold Stanislaus "Stan" Stokowski (b. 1950) and Christopher Stokowski (b. 1952), from Gloria's ten-year marriage to conductor [[Leopold Stokowski]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hubbard|first=Kim|date=May 1996|title=Living with Loss|work=People|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20141166,00.html|url-status=live|access-date=December 15, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160802103055/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20141166,00.html|archive-date=August 2, 2016}}</ref> In 2014, Cooper appeared in [[Henry Louis Gates Jr.]]'s ''[[Finding Your Roots]]'', where he learned of an ancestor, Burwell Boykin, who was a slave owner from the southern United States.<ref>{{Cite web|date=September 22, 2014|title=PBS|url=http://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/television/2014/09/22/gates-pbs-genealogy-vance-stephen-king/16073071/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006095754/http://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/television/2014/09/22/gates-pbs-genealogy-vance-stephen-king/16073071/|archive-date=October 6, 2014|access-date=October 9, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Desmond-Harris|first=Jenée|date=February 6, 2015|title=Anderson Cooper was pretty delighted to find out a slave killed his ancestor with a farm hoe|url=https://www.vox.com/2014/12/12/7385217/anderson-cooper-slave-ancestor|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160712132729/http://www.vox.com/2014/12/12/7385217/anderson-cooper-slave-ancestor|archive-date=July 12, 2016|access-date=July 10, 2016|website=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]}}</ref>

Cooper's media experience began early. As a baby, he was photographed by [[Diane Arbus]] for ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]''.<ref name="artsjournal">{{Cite web|last=Green|first=Tyler|date=March 14, 2005|title=MODERN ART NOTES: Name That Baby|url=http://www.artsjournal.com/man/archives20050301.shtml#97980|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235343/http://www.artsjournal.com/man/archives20050301.shtml#97980|archive-date=September 26, 2007|access-date=June 30, 2007|work=ArtsJournal}}</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, appearing with his mother.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}} At the age of nine, he appeared on ''[[To Tell the Truth]]'' as an impostor. From age 10 to 13, Cooper modeled with [[Ford Models]] for [[Ralph Lauren]], [[Calvin Klein]] and [[Macy's]].<ref name="Van Meter">[http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/14301/ Van Meter, Jonathan, "Unanchored", ''New York''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622041739/http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/14301/|date=June 22, 2017}}, September 19, 2005 (Retrieved on September 27, 2006).</ref>

Wyatt experienced a series of heart attacks while undergoing open-heart surgery, and died January 5, 1978, at the age of 50. 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" />

When Cooper was 21, his older brother, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, died by 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 expressed her belief that the suicide was caused by a [[psychotic episode]] induced by an [[allergy]] to the anti-[[asthma]] [[prescription drug]] [[salbutamol]]. Carter's suicide sparked Anderson's interest in journalism:<ref name="Van Meter" />
{{Blockquote|text=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?}}

Cooper attended the [[Dalton School]], a private co-educational day school on the [[Upper East Side]] of [[Manhattan]]. At age 17, after graduating from Dalton a semester early, Cooper traveled around Africa for several months on a "survival trip". He contracted [[malaria]] on the trip and was hospitalized in [[Kenya]]. Describing the experience, Cooper wrote "Africa was a place to forget and be forgotten in."<ref name="Van Meter" /><ref name="Bronson">{{Cite magazine|last=Bronson|first=Po|date=September 4, 2013|title=Anderson Cooper Profile: His Private War|url=https://www.mensjournal.com/features/anderson-coopers-private-war-20130904/|access-date=June 17, 2021|magazine=Men's Journal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Bronson|first=Po|date=February 12, 2007|title=Anderson Cooper's Private War|url=http://www.pobronson.com/blog/2007/02/anderson-coopers-private-war.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017080648/http://www.pobronson.com/blog/2007/02/anderson-coopers-private-war.html|archive-date=October 17, 2008|access-date=July 7, 2012|work=Po Bronson blog}}</ref> Cooper attended [[Yale University]], where he resided in [[Trumbull College]] and was a [[coxswain]] on the [[lightweight rowing]] team. He was inducted into the [[Manuscript Society]] and majored in [[political science]], graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1989.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Palka|first=Mary Kelli|date=October 21, 2007|title=Anderson Cooper: He runs to where others are running from|work=Florida Times-Union|publisher=jacksonville.com|url=http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/102107/met_210429102.shtml|url-status=dead|access-date=July 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730103541/http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/102107/met_210429102.shtml|archive-date=July 30, 2012}}</ref>

==Career==
===Early career===
During college, Cooper spent two summers as an intern at the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] while studying political science.<ref name="Cooper">{{Cite news|last=Cooper|first=Anderson|date=September 6, 2006|title=My summer job ... nearly 20 years ago|work=Anderson Cooper 360° Blog|url=http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2006/09/my-summer-job-nearly-20-years-ago.html|url-status=live|access-date=August 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200518053009/https://edition.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2006/09/my-summer-job-nearly-20-years-ago.html|archive-date=May 18, 2020}}</ref> He pursued journalism with no formal journalistic education.<ref name="radaronline">{{Cite web|last=Bercovici|first=Jeff|date=September 6, 2006|title=Anderson Cooper's CIA secret|url=http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/10/anderson-coopers-cia-secret-php/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130322213732/http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/10/anderson-coopers-cia-secret-php/|archive-date=March 22, 2013|access-date=June 30, 2007|work=Radar}}</ref><ref name="Cooper" /> He is a self-proclaimed "news junkie since [he] was in utero".<ref name="Hirschman">{{Cite web|last=Hirschman|first=David S.|date=May 11, 2006|title=So what do you do, Anderson Cooper?|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a1582.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703033851/http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a1582.asp|archive-date=July 3, 2007|work=Mediabistro.com}}</ref>

===Channel One===
After Cooper graduated from Yale, 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 the small news agency [[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.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hirschman|first=David S.|title=Articles: So What Do You Do, Anderson Cooper?|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a1582.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703033851/http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a1582.asp|archive-date=July 3, 2007|access-date=August 6, 2011|publisher=mediabistro.com}}</ref> Cooper then entered [[Myanmar]] on his own with his forged press pass and met with students fighting the Burmese government.<ref name="Hirschman" />

After reporting from [[Myanmar]], Cooper lived in [[Vietnam]] for a year to study the Vietnamese language at the [[University of Hanoi]]. Persuading Channel One to allow him to bring a [[Hi8]] camera with him, Cooper began filming and assembling reports of Vietnamese life and culture that aired on Channel One. In 1992, he filmed stories from [[Somalia]], [[Bosnia]], and [[Rwanda]].{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

After having been on such assignments for a couple of years, Cooper realized in 1994 that he 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" /> One particular incident, however, snapped him out of it:<ref name="Bronson" />
{{Blockquote|text=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."}}

===ABC===
In 1995, Cooper became a correspondent for [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]], eventually rising to the position of co-anchor on its 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 (American TV series)|The Mole]]'':<ref name="Hirschman" />
{{Blockquote|text=My last year at ABC, I was working overnights anchoring this newscast, then during the day at ''[[20/20 (U.S. TV series)|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.}}

Cooper was also a fill-in co-host for [[Regis Philbin]] on ''[[Live with Regis and Kelly]]'' in 2007 when Philbin underwent triple-bypass heart surgery.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bonawitz|first=Amy|date=March 13, 2007|title=Anderson Cooper Fills in For Regis|publisher=[[CBS News]]|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anderson-cooper-fills-in-for-regis/|url-status=live|access-date=July 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101111094433/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/13/entertainment/main2563294.shtml|archive-date=November 11, 2010}}</ref> As of 2019, he still periodically serves as guest co-host on ''Live'' when one of the two hosts cannot go in to work.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

===CNN===
[[File:Anderson Cooper in Singapore in 2018.jpg|thumb|Anderson Cooper covering the Trump/Kim Summit in Singapore, 2018]]
Cooper left ''[[The Mole (American TV series)|The Mole]]'' after its [[The Mole (American season 2)|second season]] to return to broadcast news. In 2001, he joined CNN, commenting, "Two seasons was enough, and [[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 Live (CNN program)|New Year's Eve special]] from [[Times Square]].{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

====''Anderson Cooper 360°''====
On September 8, 2003, Cooper became the anchor of ''[[Anderson Cooper 360°]]'' on CNN. Describing his philosophy as an [[News presenter|anchor]], he has said:<ref name="Hirschman" />
{{Blockquote|text=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.}}

In 2005, Cooper covered 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]]. In August 2005, he covered the [[2005–06 Niger food crisis|Niger famine]] from [[Maradi, Niger|Maradi]].{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

[[File:Anderson Cooper Marched With Us.jpg|thumb|Cooper covering a 2007 protest of the government response to [[Hurricane Katrina]]]]
In 2005, during CNN coverage of the aftermath of [[Hurricane Katrina]], he confronted Sen. [[Mary Landrieu]], Sen. [[Trent Lott]], and the Reverend [[Jesse Jackson]] about their perception of the government response. As Cooper said later 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" /> A contributor to ''[[Broadcasting & Cable]]'' magazine wrote: "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|date=December 12, 2005|title=Blown Away by Katrina|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/news-articles/blown-away-katrina/109083|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002230245/http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/news-articles/blown-away-katrina/109083|archive-date=October 2, 2015|access-date=June 30, 2007|work=[[Broadcasting & Cable]]}}</ref>

In September 2005, the format of CNN's ''[[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 (journalist)|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 (CNN)|Jonathan Klein]], who has called Cooper "the anchorperson of the future".<ref>Jensen, Elizabeth (September 12, 2005), [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/arts/television/12coop.html "An anchor who reports disaster news with a heart on his sleeve"], ''The New York Times''. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140720095404/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/arts/television/12coop.html|date=July 20, 2014}}. 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>[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/03/business/media/03fcnn.html Carter, Bill, "CNN ousts evening anchor and embraces rising star", ''The New York Times''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424020510/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/03/business/media/03fcnn.html|date=April 24, 2009}}, 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 two hours and shifted into the 10:00&nbsp;pm ET slot formerly held by ''NewsNight'', with the third hour of [[Wolf Blitzer]]'s ''[[The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer|The Situation Room]]'' filling in Cooper's former 7:00&nbsp;pm ET slot. With "no options" left for him to host shows, [[Aaron Brown (journalist)|Aaron Brown]] left CNN, ostensibly having "mutually agreed" with Jonathan Klein on the matter.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/business/media/02cnd-cnn.html Carter, Bill, "CNN ousts Aaron Brown and gives slot to Anderson Cooper", ''The New York Times''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140516072828/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/business/media/02cnd-cnn.html|date=May 16, 2014}}, November 2, 2005 (Retrieved September 27, 2006).</ref>

[[File:Anderson Cooper at the Obama Inaugural.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Cooper at the [[First inauguration of Barack Obama|inauguration of President Obama]] in Washington, D.C., 2009]]
In early 2007, Cooper signed a multi-year deal with CNN that would allow him to continue as a contributor to ''[[60 Minutes]]'', as well as doubling his salary from $2&nbsp;million annually to a reported $4&nbsp;million.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Grossman|first=Ben|date=January 19, 2007|title=Exclusive: Anderson Cooper Signs New Multiyear Deal with CNN|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6408610.html?title=Article&spacedesc=news|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070525220326/http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6408610.html?title=Article&spacedesc=news|archive-date=May 25, 2007|work=Broadcasting & Cable}}</ref>

====''The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper''====
On April 16, 2023, CNN launched a new Sunday primetime series, ''The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.''<ref>{{cite web|url= https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2023/04/11/the-whole-story-with-anderson-cooper-launches-with-the-trek-a-migrant-trail-to-america-on-sunday-april-16-at-8pm-et-pt/|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230412194807/https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2023/04/11/the-whole-story-with-anderson-cooper-launches-with-the-trek-a-migrant-trail-to-america-on-sunday-april-16-at-8pm-et-pt/amp/|url-status= dead|archive-date= April 12, 2023|accessdate=April 16, 2023|date=April 11, 2023|title=The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper launches with "The Trek: A Migrant Trail to America" on Sunday April 16 at 8pm ET/PT|publisher=[[CNN]]|first=Sophie|last=Tran}}</ref>

====''CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute''====
In 2007, he began hosting ''[[CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute]]'', a show about extraordinary deeds by ordinary people.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

====''Planet in Peril'' documentary====
In October 2007, Cooper began hosting the documentary ''Planet in Peril'' with [[Sanjay Gupta]] and [[Jeff Corwin]] on CNN. In 2008, Cooper, Gupta, and [[Lisa Ling]] from ''[[National Geographic Explorer]]'' teamed up for a sequel, ''[[Planet in Peril]]: Battle Lines'', which premiered in December 2008.<ref>{{Cite news|date=December 15, 2017|title=Anderson Cooper Free Dives with Great White Sharks in South Africa|url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/11/pip.shark.diving/index.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202021423/http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/11/pip.shark.diving/index.html|archive-date=December 2, 2016|access-date=January 30, 2017|publisher=CNN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=December 12, 2008|title=Anderson Cooper Swims with Great White Sharks in South Africa|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5rUqElSrc8|url-status=live|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/w5rUqElSrc8|archive-date=December 21, 2021|access-date=January 30, 2017|publisher=CNN|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

====Syndicated talk show: ''Anderson Live''====
In September 2010, [[Warner Bros.]] and [[Telepictures]] (both corporate siblings of CNN) announced that Cooper had signed an agreement to host a nationally syndicated talk show. The journalist [[Brian Stelter]] (at the time employed by ''[[The New York Times]]'', and now by [[CNN]]), reported on Twitter that the new Warner Bros. daytime talk show would be named ''[[Anderson Live|Anderson]]'' (now titled ''Anderson Live'').<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 12, 2010|title=Twitter / Warner Bros. has settled on a name for Anderson Cooper's daytime talk show, coming in September 2011. It's "Anderson".|url=https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/14185898098827264|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029184259/https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/14185898098827264|archive-date=October 29, 2013|access-date=August 6, 2011|via=Twitter}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=August 2024}} The show premiered on September 12, 2011,<ref name="AndersonCooper.com 6">{{Cite web|title=Anderson Cooper New Daytime Talk Show|url=http://www.andersoncooper.com/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920002927/http://www.andersoncooper.com/|archive-date=September 20, 2011|access-date=September 19, 2011|publisher=AndersonCooper.com}}</ref> and as part of negotiations over the talk show deal, Cooper signed a new multi-year contract with CNN to continue as the host of ''Anderson Cooper 360°''.<ref name="talkshowcit1">{{Cite news|date=October 1, 2010|title=Anderson Cooper to Host Daytime Talk Show|work=The Spy Report|publisher=Media Spy|url=http://www.mediaspy.org/report/2010/10/01/us-anderson-cooper-to-host-daytime-talk-show/|url-status=live|access-date=October 2, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101004172329/http://www.mediaspy.org/report/2010/10/01/us-anderson-cooper-to-host-daytime-talk-show/|archive-date=October 4, 2010}}</ref><ref name="talkshowcit2">{{Cite news|last=Stelter|first=Brian|date=September 30, 2010|title=CNN's Anderson Cooper in Daytime Talk Show Deal|work=The New York Times|url=http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/cnns-anderson-cooper-in-daytime-talk-show-deal/|url-status=live|access-date=October 2, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101002022811/http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/cnns-anderson-cooper-in-daytime-talk-show-deal/|archive-date=October 2, 2010}}</ref> On October 29, 2012, it was announced that ''Anderson Live'' would end at the conclusion of its second season. The show, slightly renamed after season one and revamped with a variety of co-hosts, failed to achieve the ratings distributor Warner Brothers hoped for. The final ''Anderson Live'' aired on May 30, 2013.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

====2016 presidential debates====
Along with [[Martha Raddatz]], Cooper moderated the second [[2016 United States presidential election debates|presidential election debate]] between [[Hillary Clinton]] and [[Donald Trump]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Grynbaum|first=Michael M.|date=October 10, 2016|title=Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper Steered Debate With Sharp Questions|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/us/politics/anderson-cooper-martha-raddatz.html|url-status=live|access-date=October 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180805172503/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/us/politics/anderson-cooper-martha-raddatz.html|archive-date=August 5, 2018|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> This made him the first LGBT person to moderate a presidential debate in the general election.<ref>{{Cite news|date=October 10, 2016|title=History was made at last night's debate ... but not by Clinton or Trump|newspaper=PinkNews|url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/10/10/history-was-made-at-last-nights-debate-but-not-by-clinton-or-trump/|url-status=live|access-date=October 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014131658/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/10/10/history-was-made-at-last-nights-debate-but-not-by-clinton-or-trump/|archive-date=October 14, 2018}}</ref>

====New Year's Eve====
In 2017, Cooper's close friend, [[Andy Cohen]], joined Cooper in succeeding [[Kathy Griffin]] as co-host of CNN's [[New Year's Eve Live (CNN program)|New Year's Eve coverage]].<ref name="variety-andycohen">{{Cite magazine|last=Steinberg|first=Brian|date=October 11, 2017|title=CNN Will Replace Kathy Griffin With Andy Cohen for New Year's Eve|magazine=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/cnn-new-year-anderson-cooper-andy-cohen-1202587221/|url-status=live|access-date=November 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114201322/http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/cnn-new-year-anderson-cooper-andy-cohen-1202587221/|archive-date=November 14, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Katz|first=A.J.|date=January 3, 2018|title=The Duo of Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen Led CNN to Its Most-Watched New Year's Eve Ever|magazine=[[Adweek]]|url=http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/the-duo-of-anderson-cooper-and-andy-cohen-led-cnn-to-its-most-watched-new-years-eve-ever/353703|url-status=live|access-date=April 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180508092159/http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/the-duo-of-anderson-cooper-and-andy-cohen-led-cnn-to-its-most-watched-new-years-eve-ever/353703|archive-date=May 8, 2018}}</ref> They again co-hosted CNN's New Year's Eve for 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022<ref>Fusaro, Hannah (December 4, 2010), [https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/andy-cohen-to-co-host-new-years-eve-live-with-anderson-cooper-2018 "Andy Cohen Returns to Co-Host New Year's Eve Live Alongside Anderson Cooper"], ''Daily Dish'', Bravo TV. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101145123/https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/andy-cohen-to-co-host-new-years-eve-live-with-anderson-cooper-2018|date=January 1, 2019}}. Retrieved December 31, 2018.</ref> and 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen Ring in 2024 Live From Times Square |url=https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2023/12/11/anderson-cooper-and-andy-cohen-ring-in-2024-live-from-times-square-sunday-december-31-at-8pm-et/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231211171942/https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2023/12/11/anderson-cooper-and-andy-cohen-ring-in-2024-live-from-times-square-sunday-december-31-at-8pm-et/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 11, 2023 |access-date=August 14, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref>

===''60 Minutes''===
[[File:Anderson Cooper at the 71st Annual Peabody Awards.jpg|thumb |upright |Cooper at the 71st Annual [[Peabody Awards]] (Astoria Hotel, May 21, 2012)]]
Cooper has been a correspondent for the [[CBS News]] program ''[[60 Minutes]]'' since 2007, while concurrently serving as a CNN anchor and correspondent.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

=== Other work ===

==== AC2 ====
Andy Cohen and Cooper announced that they would be going on a national tour to perform their conversational stage show ''AC2'' beginning in March 2015.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|last=Shanahan|first=Mark|date=January 2, 2018|title=Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen say Boston show won't be all about politics|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2018/01/02/anderson-cooper-and-andy-cohen-say-boston-show-won-all-about-politics/zCNI6nGpj1jhjLD88x1PLI/story.html|url-status=dead|access-date=June 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627173105/https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2018/01/02/anderson-cooper-and-andy-cohen-say-boston-show-won-all-about-politics/zCNI6nGpj1jhjLD88x1PLI/story.html|archive-date=June 27, 2018}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite news|last=Nichols|first=JamesMichael|date=March 20, 2015|title=Anderson Cooper And Andy Cohen Announce 'AC2' Tour|work=HuffPost|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/20/anderson-cooper-andy-cohen-tour_n_6910916.html|url-status=live|access-date=June 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170509084732/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/20/anderson-cooper-andy-cohen-tour_n_6910916.html|archive-date=May 9, 2017}}</ref> The tour opened in [[Boston]], followed by [[Miami Beach]], Chicago and [[Atlanta]].<ref name=":5" /> The idea for the show came about after Cooper interviewed Cohen about his then-latest book, ''The Andy Cohen Diaries'', at an event at the [[92nd Street Y]] in New York City.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kelley|first=Quinn|date=April 27, 2017|title=Andy Cohen, Anderson Cooper to bring boozy tales, 'Housewives' taglines to Baltimore|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/baltimore-insider-blog/bal-andy-cohen-anderson-cooper-baltimore-20170426-story.html|url-status=live|access-date=June 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627144531/http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/baltimore-insider-blog/bal-andy-cohen-anderson-cooper-baltimore-20170426-story.html|archive-date=June 27, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Stewart|first=Allison|date=April 10, 2018|title=Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen: Nothing is off-limits for AC2 tour|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ott-anderson-cooper-andy-cohen-0413-story.html|url-status=live|access-date=June 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627144850/http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ott-anderson-cooper-andy-cohen-0413-story.html|archive-date=June 27, 2018}}</ref> Since then, the two-man show has continued to tour, reaching more than fifty cities as of October 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 19, 2018|title=Andy Cohen Kept Texting Anderson Cooper During Trump's Helsinki Fiasco|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko5DIpYcgqI&t=106|url-status=live|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/Ko5DIpYcgqI|archive-date=December 21, 2021|access-date=July 19, 2018|work=The Late Show with Stephen Colbert|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==== Broadway ====
Cooper was the narrator for the 2011 Broadway revival of ''[[How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (musical)|How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying]]'', directed by [[Rob Ashford]] and starring [[Daniel Radcliffe]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=January 18, 2011|title=Voice of Anderson Cooper to Narrate HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING|url=http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWW_TV_Preview_Voice_of_Anderson_Cooper_to_Narrate_HOW_TO_SUCCEED_IN_BUSINESS_WITHOUT_REALLY_TRYING_20110118|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110128234658/http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWW_TV_Preview_Voice_of_Anderson_Cooper_to_Narrate_HOW_TO_SUCCEED_IN_BUSINESS_WITHOUT_REALLY_TRYING_20110118|archive-date=January 28, 2011|access-date=February 23, 2011|work=Broadway World}}</ref>

==== Writings ====
A freelance writer, Cooper has authored a variety of articles that have appeared in many other outlets, including ''[[Details (magazine)|Details]]'' magazine.<ref name="details">{{Cite web|last=Phillips|first=Patrick|date=March 1, 2007|title=Anderson Cooper: 'I Didn't Go to Anchor School'|url=http://www.iwantmedia.com/people/people54.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510104653/http://www.iwantmedia.com/people/people54.html|archive-date=May 10, 2012|access-date=January 3, 2007|publisher=I Want Media}}</ref>

In May 2006, Cooper published a memoir for [[HarperCollins]], ''Dispatches from the Edge'', 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.<ref name="AskMen">{{Cite web|title=41. Anderson Cooper|url=http://www.askmen.com/specials/2006_top_49/anderson-cooper-41.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221033239/http://www.askmen.com/specials/2006_top_49/anderson-cooper-41.html|archive-date=February 21, 2009|access-date=March 2, 2009}}</ref> The book topped [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Best Seller list]] on June 18, 2006.<ref name="topbook">{{Cite news|title=Side Dish|website=Daily News|location=New York|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/427186p-360294c.html|url-status=dead|access-date=January 3, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070209094046/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/427186p-360294c.html|archive-date=February 9, 2007}}</ref>

In 2017, Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, co-authored ''The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss''. Compiled from a series of emails, the memoir recounts their shared past, and Vanderbilt's tumultuous childhood. Cooper said his goal in writing the book and correspondence was to leave "nothing left unsaid" between the pair.<ref>[https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062454942/the-rainbow-comes-and-goes/ ''The Rainbow Comes and Goes''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227144459/https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062454942/the-rainbow-comes-and-goes/|date=December 27, 2019}}, ''HarperCollins''</ref> It landed on multiple best-seller lists the year of its publication.<ref>[http://projects.latimes.com/bestsellers/titles/rainbow-comes-and-goes/ ''Bestselling: The Rainbow Comes and Goes''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227144457/http://projects.latimes.com/bestsellers/titles/rainbow-comes-and-goes/|date=December 27, 2019}}, ''LA Times''</ref>

==== ''Jeopardy!'' ====
From April 19 to 30, 2021 Cooper served as a guest host on ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' following the death of [[Alex Trebek]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! Guest Host Schedule|url=https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/news-events/jeopardy-guest-host-schedule|access-date=July 24, 2021|website=Jeopardy.com|publisher=Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.|archive-date=June 20, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240620053012/https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/news-events/jeopardy-guest-host-schedule|url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Podcast: ''All There Is'' ====
[[File:P20231107AS-0580.jpg|thumb|Cooper recording a podcast episode with US president [[Joe Biden]] in 2023]]
In 2022, Cooper launched a deeply personal podcast exploring grief and loss. On the show, he interviews other notable people on their experiences with grief. Guests have included TV host [[Stephen Colbert]], musician [[Laurie Anderson]] and comedian [[Molly Shannon]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 28, 2022 |title=All There Is with Anderson Cooper |url=https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/all-there-is-with-anderson-cooper |access-date=December 20, 2023 |publisher=CNN |archive-date=December 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231220005225/https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/all-there-is-with-anderson-cooper |url-status=live }}</ref> The inspiration for the podcast came from his own life. Reflecting on the loss of his father when he was 10, the loss of his brother to suicide at 21, and the more recent loss of his mother [[Gloria Vanderbilt]], he said "What has struck me is the degree to which I had not dealt with this stuff at all." He shared that he wanted to explore this universal human experience. "I just felt like, 'Why am I so alone in this? This is something we all go through.' And this idea gave me great strength, that I'm on a road that has been traveled by everybody, in one form or another. Why every time somebody is going down this road should it feel like the first time?"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=November 28, 2022 |title=Anderson Cooper Explores Grief and Loss in Deeply Personal Podcast |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/arts/anderson-cooper-grief-podcast.html |archive-date=December 20, 2023 |access-date=December 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231220220642/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/arts/anderson-cooper-grief-podcast.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Cooper won a 2023 [[Webby Award]] for Best Series for ''All There Is''. His 5-word acceptance speech was "All There Is, Is Love."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=May 2023 |title=2023 Webby People's Voice Winner: All There Is |url=https://winners.webbyawards.com/2023/podcasts/features/best-host/247179/all-there-is-with-anderson-cooper |access-date=March 29, 2024 |website=The Webby Awards |archive-date=March 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329202424/https://winners.webbyawards.com/2023/podcasts/features/best-host/247179/all-there-is-with-anderson-cooper |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Personal life==
[[File:Anderson Cooper (45348454372).jpg|thumb|Cooper in 2018]]
As of 2016, Cooper was not registered to any political party.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-debates/trump-calls-first-debate-moderator-a-democrat-records-show-otherwise-idUSKCN11Q2NJ |title=Trump calls first debate moderator a Democrat; records show otherwise |date=September 20, 2016 |work=[[Reuters]] |access-date=February 10, 2021 |archive-date=August 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816111803/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-debates/trump-calls-first-debate-moderator-a-democrat-records-show-otherwise-idUSKCN11Q2NJ |url-status=live }}</ref> 

In 2008, Cooper told [[Oprah Winfrey]] he had [[dyslexia]] as a child.<ref name="oprah">{{Cite web|date=July 2005|title=Books That Made a Difference to Anderson Cooper|url=http://www.oprah.com/obc/omag/obc_omag_200507_books.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706015123/http://www.oprah.com/obc/omag/obc_omag_200507_books.jhtml|archive-date=July 6, 2008|access-date=November 10, 2011|work=[[O, The Oprah Magazine]]}}</ref>

Cooper played ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' with his brother as a child. He later said that it gave him and his brother an escape from the grief of their father's death.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Barkley |first=Lillian |date=July 31, 2024 |title=For Dungeons & Dragons, the magic is in the memories |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/31/dungeons-dragons-anniversary-game/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240731131835/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/31/dungeons-dragons-anniversary-game/ |archive-date=July 31, 2024 |access-date=July 31, 2024 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url-status=live }}</ref>

Cooper is gay; {{as of|2012|lc=y}}, he was (according to ''[[The New York Times]]'') "the most prominent openly gay journalist on American television".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stelter|first=Brian|date=July 2, 2012|title=Anderson Cooper Says, 'The Fact Is, I'm Gay'|url=http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/anderson-cooper-says-the-fact-is-im-gay/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120704165838/http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/anderson-cooper-says-the-fact-is-im-gay/|archive-date=July 4, 2012|access-date=July 2, 2012|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> For years, Cooper avoided discussing his private life in interviews. On July 2, 2012, however, he gave [[Andrew Sullivan]] permission to publish an email that stated, in part:<ref>{{Cite web|title=Anderson Cooper: 'The Fact Is, I'm Gay'|url=http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/anderson-cooper-the-fact-is-im-gay.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702153045/http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/anderson-cooper-the-fact-is-im-gay.html|archive-date=July 2, 2012|access-date=July 2, 2012|work=The Daily Beast}}</ref>
{{Blockquote|text=I've begun to consider whether the unintended outcomes of maintaining my privacy outweigh personal and professional principle. It's become clear to me that by remaining silent on certain aspects of my personal life for so long, I have given some the mistaken impression that I am trying to hide something—something that makes me uncomfortable, ashamed or even afraid. This is distressing because it is simply not true. ... The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.}}

In 2014, [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] CEO [[Tim Cook]] sought Cooper's advice before making the decision to publicly come out as gay.<ref>{{Cite web|date=August 15, 2016|title=Who Apple's Tim Cook turns to for advice|url=http://www.afr.com/technology/technology-companies/apple/who-apples-tim-cook-turns-to-for-advice-20160814-gqse78|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923000841/http://www.afr.com/technology/technology-companies/apple/who-apples-tim-cook-turns-to-for-advice-20160814-gqse78|archive-date=September 23, 2016|access-date=October 10, 2016|work=afr.com}}</ref>

In 2014, Cooper and his long-term partner at the time, Benjamin Maisani, purchased [[Rye House (Litchfield, Connecticut)|Rye House]], a historic estate in [[Connecticut]].<ref name="TRD">{{Cite news|date=June 22, 2014|title=Anderson Cooper picks up Connecticut estate|publisher=The Real Deal: NY Real Estate News|location=New York|url=http://therealdeal.com/2014/06/22/anderson-cooper-picks-up-connecticut-estate/|url-status=live|access-date=January 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126003842/http://therealdeal.com/2014/06/22/anderson-cooper-picks-up-connecticut-estate/|archive-date=January 26, 2016|quote=Sources say Cooper and his partner paid between $5{{spaces}}and{{spaces}}$9{{spaces}}million}}</ref> In March 2018, Cooper confirmed that he and  Maisani had split up.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Pasquini|first1=Maria|last2=Dowd|first2=Kathy Ehrich|last3=Stone|first3=Natalie|date=March 15, 2018|title=Anderson Cooper Says He and Boyfriend Benjamin Maisani Split 'Some Time Ago'|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|url=https://people.com/tv/anderson-cooper-boyfriend-benjamin-maisani-split/|url-status=live|access-date=June 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626054844/https://people.com/tv/anderson-cooper-boyfriend-benjamin-maisani-split/|archive-date=June 26, 2018}}</ref>

Cooper was friends with [[Anthony Bourdain]], celebrity chef and host of the CNN series [[Parts Unknown (TV series)|''Parts Unknown'']]. After Bourdain died by suicide on June 8, 2018, Cooper paid tribute to him in a CNN special program, ''Remembering Anthony Bourdain''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nordine|first=Michael|date=June 10, 2018|title=Anderson Cooper Tears Up While Paying Tribute to Anthony Bourdain: 'He Gave Me Hope' — Watch|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/06/anderson-cooper-anthony-bourdain-tribute-cnn-1201973223/|access-date=July 6, 2021|publisher=[[IndieWire]]|archive-date=July 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183147/https://www.indiewire.com/2018/06/anderson-cooper-anthony-bourdain-tribute-cnn-1201973223/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Mizoguchi|first=Karen|date=June 9, 2018|title=Anderson Cooper Tearfully Remembers Anthony Bourdain: 'He Gave Me Hope for What One's Life Can Become'|url=https://people.com/food/anderson-cooper-tearfully-remembers-anthony-bourdain/|access-date=July 6, 2021|magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]]|archive-date=July 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709185235/https://people.com/food/anderson-cooper-tearfully-remembers-anthony-bourdain/|url-status=live}}</ref> Cooper also paid tribute to Bourdain on the [[Thanksgiving (United States)|Thanksgiving]] 2020 episode of ''[[Anderson Cooper Full Circle]]'', saying that he was "proud to call Anthony Bourdain a friend", and adding: "He is so, so missed by so many."<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Mauch|first=Ally|date=November 28, 2020|title=Anderson Cooper Reflects on Making Gravy with Late Friend Anthony Bourdain: 'He Is So, So Missed'|url=https://people.com/food/anderson-cooper-reflects-on-cooking-gravy-with-late-friend-anthony-bourdain/|access-date=July 6, 2021|magazine=People|archive-date=July 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709182944/https://people.com/food/anderson-cooper-reflects-on-cooking-gravy-with-late-friend-anthony-bourdain/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Ryan|first=Josiah|date=November 26, 2020|title=Watch Anthony Bourdain teach Anderson Cooper how to make 'Sunday Gravy'|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/26/us/anthony-bourdain-gravy-recipe-anderson-cooper-full-circle/index.html|access-date=July 6, 2021|publisher=CNN}}</ref>

In 2021, Cooper and co-author [[Katherine Howe]] published ''Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty'', a history of the Vanderbilt family going back to his Vanderbilt ancestors who came to [[New Amsterdam]] in the 17th century.<ref>{{cite news|last=Buckley|first=Christopher|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-to-fritter-away-a-family-fortune/2021/09/23/2c2e934c-0122-11ec-ba7e-2cf966e88e93_story.html|title=How to fritter away a family fortune|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=September 24, 2021|access-date=July 13, 2022|archive-date=December 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221219125045/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-to-fritter-away-a-family-fortune/2021/09/23/2c2e934c-0122-11ec-ba7e-2cf966e88e93_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Children===
On April 30, 2020, Cooper announced the birth of his son Wyatt Morgan Cooper by a [[Surrogacy|surrogate]] on April 27. "On Monday I became a father. I've never said that out loud and it astonishes me. I have a son," he said at the end of a CNN Town Hall on his show, ''[[Anderson Cooper 360°]]''. He also went on to make an announcement on Instagram, stating that "Wyatt Morgan Cooper was born on Monday weighing {{convert|7|lb|2|oz|abbr=off|disp=sqbr}}."<ref>{{Cite instagram|user=andersoncooper|title=I want to share with you some joyful news. On Monday, I became a father. This is Wyatt Cooper. He is three days old. He is named after my father, who died when I was ten. I hope I can be as good a dad as he was. My son's middle name is Morgan. It's a family name on my mom's side. I know my mom and dad liked the name morgan because I recently found a list they made 52 years ago when they were trying to think of names for me. Wyatt Morgan Cooper. My son. He was 7.2 lbs at birth, and he is sweet, and soft, and healthy and I am beyond happy. As a gay kid, I never thought it would be possible to have a child, and I'm grateful for all those who have paved the way, and for the doctors and nurses and everyone involved in my son's birth. Most of all, I am grateful to a remarkable surrogate who carried Wyatt, and watched over him lovingly, and tenderly, and gave birth to him. It is an extraordinary blessing - what she, and all surrogates give to families who cant have children. My surrogate has a beautiful family of her own, a wonderfully supportive husband, and kids, and I am incredibly thankful for all the support they have given Wyatt and me. My family is blessed to have this family in our lives I do wish my mom and dad and my brother, Carter, were alive to meet Wyatt, but I like to believe they can see him. I imagine them all together, arms around each other, smiling and laughing, happy to know that their love is alive in me and in Wyatt, and that our family continues.|postid=B_oKGL9BYs1/|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200504190835/https://www.instagram.com/p/B_oKGL9BYs1/|date=April 30, 2020|access-date=May 1, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|first=Brian |last=Stelter|date=April 30, 2020|title=Anderson Cooper announces the birth of his son Wyatt: 'Our family continues'|publisher=CNN|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/media/anderson-cooper-father/index.html|url-status=live|access-date=May 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200501024316/https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/media/anderson-cooper-father/index.html|archive-date=May 1, 2020}}</ref>

Though Cooper and Benjamin Maisani are no longer romantically involved, the pair [[co-parent]] the child and Maisani was present in the delivery room for Wyatt's birth. Wyatt is named after Cooper's late father, Wyatt Cooper, and his middle name is derived from the Morgan side of his family, being the maiden name of his maternal grandmother Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=McRady|first1=Rachel|date=May 5, 2020|title=Anderson Cooper Reveals His Ex Benjamin Maisani Will Be a Co-Parent to His Newborn Son Wyatt|work=Entertainment Tonight|url=https://www.etonline.com/anderson-cooper-reveals-his-ex-benjamin-maisani-will-be-a-co-parent-to-his-newborn-son-wyatt-145982|url-status=live|access-date=May 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506120042/https://www.etonline.com/anderson-cooper-reveals-his-ex-benjamin-maisani-will-be-a-co-parent-to-his-newborn-son-wyatt-145982|archive-date=May 6, 2020}}</ref>

On February 10, 2022, Cooper announced at the beginning of his show on CNN that he had just become a father for a second time to a son named Sebastian Luke Maisani-Cooper. Maisani is in the process of adopting Cooper's son Wyatt, after which Wyatt's surname will become Maisani-Cooper.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Jakiel|first1=Olivia|title=Anderson Cooper Announces the Birth of His Second Baby, Reveals Benjamin Maisani Is Adopting Son Wyatt|url=https://people.com/parents/anderson-cooper-announces-birth-of-his-second-baby/|access-date=February 11, 2022|website=People|archive-date=February 11, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211012947/https://people.com/parents/anderson-cooper-announces-birth-of-his-second-baby/|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Current event inline|date=November 2024}}

==Awards==
[[File:Anderson Cooper accepts the Peabody Award, May 2012 (1).jpg|thumb|Cooper accepting a [[Peabody Award]] in 2012 for CNN's coverage of the [[Arab Spring]]]]
Cooper helped lead CNN's [[Peabody Award]]-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina, and the network's [[Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award]]-winning coverage of the 2004 tsunami. He has won 18 Emmy Awards, including two for his coverage of the earthquake in Haiti, and an [[Edward Murrow Award (Overseas Press Club of America)|Edward R. Murrow Award]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=CNN Profiles-Anderson Cooper|url=https://edition.cnn.com/profiles/Anderson-cooper-profile|access-date=December 29, 2020|publisher=CNN|archive-date=March 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310222006/https://edition.cnn.com/profiles/anderson-cooper-profile|url-status=live}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="text-align:center;"
! Year !! Award !! Organization !! Work !! Category !! Result
|-
|1993
|Bronze Telly
|Telly Awards
|Coverage of [[famine]] in Somalia
|
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="tenacitymarks">{{Cite news|last=Karsnak|first=Mike|date=May 12, 2005|title=Tenacity marks winning careers of TV journalist, marketing CEO – Honorary degree recipients|page=2|work=[[The Star-Ledger]]|location=Newark, New Jersey}}</ref><ref name="watson">{{Cite book|last=Watson|first=Stephanie|url=https://archive.org/details/andersoncooperpr0000wats/page/61|title=Anderson Cooper: Profile of a TV Journalist|publisher=Rosen Publishing Group|year=2007|isbn=978-1-4042-1907-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/andersoncooperpr0000wats/page/61 61–62]|url-access=registration}}</ref>
|-
|1997
|[[Emmy Award]]
|[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|ATAS]]/[[NATAS]]
|Coverage of [[Princess Diana]]'s [[Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales|funeral]]
|
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="tenacitymarks" /><ref name="watson" /><ref name="desiretotravel">{{Cite news|last=Willer-Allred|first=Michele|date=February 17, 2009|title=For CNN's Cooper, desire to travel leads to career|work=[[Ventura County Star]]|location=California}}</ref>
|-
|2001
|[[GLAAD Media Award]]
|[[GLAAD]]
|''[[20/20 (US television series)|20/20 Downtown]]'': "High School Hero"{{snd}}report on high school athlete [[Corey Johnson (politician)|Corey Johnson]].
|Outstanding TV Journalism
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref>{{Cite press release|title=12th Annual GLAAD Media Awards|publisher=GLAAD.org|date=April 16, 2001|url=http://www.glaad.org/publications/archive_detail.php?id=49&PHPSESSID=f|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080604234325/http://www.glaad.org/publications/archive_detail.php?id=49&PHPSESSID=f|archive-date=June 4, 2008}}</ref><ref name="tenacitymarks" />
|-
|rowspan="2" |2005
|[[Peabody Award]]
|[[Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication]] at the [[University of Georgia]]
|Coverage of [[Hurricane Katrina]]
|
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="watson" /><ref>{{Cite news|title=Coverage of Hurricane Katrina 2005|work=The Peabody Awards|publisher=peabody.uga.edu|url=http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/details.php?id=1415|url-status=dead|access-date=July 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610222501/http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/details.php?id=1415|archive-date=June 10, 2010}}</ref>
|-
|National Headliner Award
|Press Club of Atlantic City
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Wave of Destruction"{{snd}}[[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami]] coverage
|Coverage of a Major News Event
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="desiretotravel" /><ref name="natheadawards">{{Cite web|title=2005 National Headliner Award Winners: Broadcast television networks, cable networks, and syndicators|url=http://www.nationalheadlinerawards.com/Winners2005Broadcast.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20060505223917/http://www.nationalheadlinerawards.com/Winners2005Broadcast.html|archive-date=May 5, 2006|work=NationalHeadlinerAwards.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=May 15, 2005|title=Headliner Award winners|page=C6|work=The Press of Atlantic City|publisher=South Jersey Publishing Company|location=New Jersey}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="4" |2006
|rowspan="3" |[[Emmy Award]]
|rowspan="3" |[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|ATAS]]/[[NATAS]]
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Charity Hospital"
|Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="emmy2">{{Cite web|date=September 25, 2006|title=27th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards|url=http://www.emmyonline.org/emmy/docu_27th_winners_b.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724203501/http://www.emmyonline.org/emmy/docu_27th_winners_b.html|archive-date=July 24, 2008|access-date=June 30, 2007|work=EmmyOnline.org}}</ref><ref name="leadwinners">{{Cite news|date=September 27, 2006|title=CBS and PBS lead winners of Emmy news awards|page=B5|work=The Record|agency=[[Associated Press]]|location=Kitchener, Ontario, Canada}}</ref>
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Starving in Plain Sight"
|Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story{{snd}}Long Form
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="emmy2" /><ref name="leadwinners" />
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "The Children: Part One and Part Two"
|Best Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nominees For The News And Documentary Emmy Awards Announced By The National Television Academy|url=http://emmyonline.com/news_27th_nominations|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=the Emmy|archive-date=September 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929072634/http://emmyonline.com/news_27th_nominations|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|[[Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award]]
|Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
|CNN for Coverage of the Tsunami Disaster in South Asia
|
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref>{{Cite web|title=Anderson Cooper|url=https://edition.cnn.com/profiles/anderson-cooper-profile#about|access-date=December 12, 2020|publisher=CNN|archive-date=March 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310222006/https://edition.cnn.com/profiles/anderson-cooper-profile#about|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="4" |2007
|rowspan="3" |[[Emmy Award]]
|rowspan="3" |[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|ATAS]]/[[NATAS]]
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Sago Mines"
|Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story{{snd}}Long Form
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="emmys2007">{{Cite web|date=September 28, 2011|title=28th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards Nominees|url=http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/_txt/news_28th_nominees_all.txt|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071202205026/http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/_txt/news_28th_nominees_all.txt|archive-date=December 2, 2007|access-date=July 17, 2007|work=EmmyOnline.org}}</ref>
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "High Rise Crash"
|Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Lighting Direction & Scenic Design
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="emmys2007" />
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Black Market Infertility"
|Outstanding Coverage of a Current Business News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated
|-
|National Headliner Awards
|Press Club of Atlantic City
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "9/11 Anniversary{{snd}}Afghanistan: The Unfinished War"
|Broadcast Television Networks, Cable Networks And Syndicators
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref>{{Cite web|title=2007 – TV/Radio|url=https://www.headlinerawards.org/2007-broadcast/|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=National Headliner Award|archive-date=February 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206045104/https://www.headlinerawards.org/2007-broadcast/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="6" |2008
|rowspan="2" |[[Emmy Award]]
|rowspan="2" |[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|ATAS]]/[[NATAS]]
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Unapproved Drugs"
|Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="emmys2008">{{Cite web|date=September 27, 2011|title=News and Docu Emmy Nominations 2008: PBS is Frontrunner|url=http://www.emanuellevy.com/popculture/news-and-docu-emmy-nominations-2008-pbs-is-frontrunner-1/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103043758/http://www.emanuellevy.com/popculture/news-and-docu-emmy-nominations-2008-pbs-is-frontrunner-1/|archive-date=November 3, 2012|access-date=July 15, 2008|work=emanuellevy.com}}</ref>
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Chicago Police Brutality"
|Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="emmys2008" />
|-
|rowspan="3" |National Headliner Awards
|rowspan="3" |Press Club of Atlantic City
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Bhutto Assassination"
|Broadcast Television Networks, Cable Networks And Syndicators
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="NHA2008">{{Cite web|title=2008 – TV/Radio|url=https://www.headlinerawards.org/2008-tvradio/|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=National Headliner Award|archive-date=October 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029051936/https://www.headlinerawards.org/2008-tvradio/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Michael Ware 2007 Coverage of Iraq"
|Continuing Coverage of a Major News Event
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="NHA2008" />
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Keeping Them Honest: Transparent Congress?"
|Investigative Reporting
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="NHA2008" />
|-
|[[GLAAD Media Awards]]
|[[GLAAD]]
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "The First Casualty"
|TV Journalism{{snd}}News Segment
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref>{{Cite web|title=19th GLAAD Media Awards| work=GLAAD |url=http://www.glaad.org/publications/resource_doc_detail.php?id=4350|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501174024/http://www.glaad.org/publications/resource_doc_detail.php?id=4350|archive-date=May 1, 2008|access-date=December 12, 2020}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="3" |2009
|rowspan="3" |[[Emmy Award]]
|rowspan="3" |[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|ATAS]]/[[NATAS]]
|''60 Minutes'': "War against Women"
|Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News Magazine
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref>{{Cite web|title=30th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards Winners Announced At New York City Gala|url=http://emmyonline.com/news_30th_winners|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=the Emmy|archive-date=September 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927132703/http://emmyonline.com/news_30th_winners|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|CNN's Coverage of the Democratic National Convention
|Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story{{snd}}Long Form
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2009">{{Cite web|title=Nominees For The 30th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards Announced By The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|url=http://emmyonline.com/news_30th_nominations|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140705193229/http://emmyonline.com/news_30th_nominations|archive-date=July 5, 2014|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=the Emmy}}</ref>
|-
|CNN's Coverage of Election Night 2008
|Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story{{snd}}Long Form
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2009" />
|-
|rowspan="2" |2010
|[[National Order of Honour and Merit]]
|[[Government of Haiti]]
|Reporting on [[2010 Haiti earthquake]]
|
|style="background:#ddf;" |Awarded<ref>{{Cite news|last=Katz|first=Jonathan M.|date=July 13, 2010|title=Medals for Haiti recovery, little for homeless|website=HuffPost|agency=[[Associated Press]]|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20100713/cb-haiti-earthquake/|url-status=live|access-date=November 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907150204/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20100713/cb-haiti-earthquake/|archive-date=September 7, 2013}}</ref>
|-
|National Headliner Awards
|Press Club of Atlantic City
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Inside the Battle Zone: Afghanistan"
|Continuing Coverage of a Major News Event
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref>{{Cite web|title=2010 – TV/Radio|url=https://www.headlinerawards.org/2010-broadcast/|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=National Headliner Award|archive-date=February 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210205135512/https://www.headlinerawards.org/2010-broadcast/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="8" |2011
|rowspan="2" |[[Emmy Award]]
|rowspan="2" |[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|ATAS]]/[[NATAS]]
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Haiti in Ruins"
|Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="emmys2011">{{Cite web|date=September 26, 2011|title=32nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards|url=http://www.emmyonline.tv/mediacenter/news_32nd_winners.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929133209/http://www.emmyonline.tv/mediacenter/news_32nd_winners.html|archive-date=September 29, 2011|access-date=September 26, 2011|work=EmmyOnline.org}}</ref>
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Crisis in Haiti"
|Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story{{snd}}Long Form
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="emmys2011" />
|-
|rowspan="3" |National Headliner Awards
|rowspan="3" |Press Club of Atlantic City
|"Taliban"
|Documentary or Series of Reports on the Same Subject
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="NHA2011">{{Cite web|title=2011 – TV/Radio|url=https://www.headlinerawards.org/2011-tvradio/|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=National Headliner Award|archive-date=October 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029054521/https://www.headlinerawards.org/2011-tvradio/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Black or White: Kids on Race"
|Investigative Reporting
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="NHA2011" />
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Amazing Animals: Smarter Than You Think"
|Environmental Reporting
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="NHA2011" />
|-
|rowspan="2" |Overseas Press Club Awards
|rowspan="2" |[[Overseas Press Club]]
|"Taliban"
|[[Edward Murrow Award (Overseas Press Club of America)|Edward R. Murrow Award]]
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="OPCA">{{Cite web|title=CNN Awards|url=https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/cnn-awards/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102112617/http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/cnn-awards/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 2, 2013|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=cnnpressroom}}</ref>
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Haiti Earthquake"
|David Kaplan Award
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="OPCA" />
|-
|[[GLAAD Media Awards]]
|[[GLAAD]]
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Gay Teen Suicides"
|Outstanding TV Journalism{{snd}}Newsmagazine
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref>{{Cite web|date=September 9, 2011|title=GLAAD Media Awards Nominees|url=https://www.glaad.org/mediaawards/22/nominees|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=GLAAD|archive-date=June 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628113324/https://www.glaad.org/mediaawards/22/nominees|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="7" |2012
|[[Peabody Award]]
|[[Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication]]
|CNN's Reporting on the Arab Spring
|
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 21, 2012|title=Anderson Cooper accepts the Peabody Award, May 2012|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anderson_Cooper_accepts_the_Peabody_Award,_May_2012_(1).jpg|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=Wikimedia|archive-date=August 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819032241/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anderson_Cooper_accepts_the_Peabody_Award,_May_2012_(1).jpg|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="3" |[[Emmy Award]]
|rowspan="3" |[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|ATAS]]/[[NATAS]]
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Bullying:&nbsp;It Stops Here"
|Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="Emmy2012">{{Cite web|title=Winners Announced For The 33rd Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards|url=http://emmyonline.com/news_33rd_winners|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929082024/http://emmyonline.com/news_33rd_winners|archive-date=September 29, 2020|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=the Emmy}}</ref>
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Unrest Escalates in Egypt"
|Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story{{snd}}Long Form
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nominees Announced For The 33rd Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards|url=http://emmyonline.com/news_33rd_nominations|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=the Emmy|archive-date=November 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201123155712/http://emmyonline.com/news_33rd_nominations|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|CNN/CNNi Breaking News Simulcast: "Revolution in Egypt:&nbsp;President Mubarak Steps Down"
|Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story{{snd}}Long Form
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="Emmy2012" />
|-
|National Headliner Awards
|Press Club of Atlantic City
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Egypt Uprising"
|Coverage of a major news event
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref>{{Cite web|title=2012 – TV/Radio|url=https://www.headlinerawards.org/2012-tvradio/|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=National Headliner Award|archive-date=October 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029044200/https://www.headlinerawards.org/2012-tvradio/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[GLAAD Media Award]]
|[[GLAAD]]
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "The 'Sissy Boy' Experiments"
|Outstanding TV Journalism{{snd}}News Magazine
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 4, 2018|title=Welcome to the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards|url=https://www.glaad.org/mediaawards/30/newyork|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=GLAAD}}</ref>
|-
|Lew Klein Awards
|Temple University Klein College of Media and Communication
|
|Excellence Honoree
|style="background:#ddf;" |Awarded<ref>{{Cite web|title=2012 Lew Klein Awards|url=https://lewkleinawards.com/event/past-events/2012-lew-klein-awards/|access-date=December 12, 2020|archive-date=January 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119152433/https://lewkleinawards.com/event/past-events/2012-lew-klein-awards/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="5" |2013
|rowspan="4" |[[Emmy Award]]
|rowspan="4" |[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|ATAS]]/[[NATAS]]
|''60 Minutes'': "Three Generations of Punishment"
|Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News Magazine
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2013nom">{{Cite web|title=Nominees Announced For The 34th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards|url=http://emmyonline.com/news_34th_nominations|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=the Emmy|archive-date=September 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929083745/http://emmyonline.com/news_34th_nominations|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Kids on Race: The Hidden Picture"
|Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="Emmy2013won">{{Cite web|title=Winners Announced For The 34th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards|url=http://emmyonline.com/news_34th_winners|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150331051214/http://emmyonline.com/news_34th_winners|archive-date=March 31, 2015|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=the Emmy}}</ref>
|-
|CNN: "Election Night in America"
|Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story{{snd}}Long Form
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="Emmy2013won" />
|-
|CNN: "Israel/Gaza Conflict"
|Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story{{snd}}Long Form
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2013nom" />
|-
|[[GLAAD Media Award]]
|[[GLAAD]]
|
|[[Vito Russo Award]]
|style="background:#ddf;" |Awarded<ref>{{Cite web|last=Carter|first=Ricky|date=February 21, 2013|title=Anderson Cooper to receive Vitto Russo Award at the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards|url=http://www.glaad.org/blog/anderson-cooper-receive-vito-russo-award-24th-annual-glaad-media-awards-glaadawards|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130225154235/http://www.glaad.org/blog/anderson-cooper-receive-vito-russo-award-24th-annual-glaad-media-awards-glaadawards|archive-date=February 25, 2013|access-date=February 22, 2013|work=[[GLAAD]]}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="4" |2014
|rowspan="4" |[[Emmy Award]]
|rowspan="4" |[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|ATAS]]/[[NATAS]]
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Boston Bombing Victim Vows to Dance Again"
|Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2014">{{Cite web|title=Nominees Announced For The 35th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards|url=http://emmyonline.com/news_35th_nominations|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=the Emmy|archive-date=November 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126045516/https://emmyonline.com/news_35th_nominations|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Guns Under Fire: An AC360 Town Hall"
|Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2014" />
|-
|CNN Newsroom: "CNN's Coverage of Typhoon Haiyan"
|Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story{{snd}}Long-Form
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2014" />
|-
|''60 Minutes'': "Cosmic Roulette"
|Outstanding Writing
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2014" />
|-
|2015
|[[Emmy Award]]
|[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|ATAS]]/[[NATAS]]
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "NYC Chokehold Death Protests"
|Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story-Long-Form
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nominees For The 36th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards Announced|url=http://emmyonline.com/news_36th_nominations|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=the Emmy|archive-date=November 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126032617/http://emmyonline.com/news_36th_nominations|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="6" |2016
|rowspan="5" |[[Emmy Award]]
|rowspan="5" |[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|ATAS]]/[[NATAS]]
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Europe's Refugee Crisis"
|Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="Emmy2016won">{{Cite web|title=National Academy Of Television Arts And Sciences Announces Winners At The 37th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards|url=http://emmyonline.com/news_37th_winners|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=the Emmy|archive-date=November 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112210950/http://emmyonline.com/news_37th_winners|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|''60 Minutes'': "Lumber Liquidators"
|Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2016nom">{{Cite web|title=Nominees For The 37th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards Announced|url=http://emmyonline.com/news_37th_nominations|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=the Emmy|archive-date=October 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009015900/http://emmyonline.com/news_37th_nominations|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "#BeingThirteen: Inside the Secret World of Teens"
|Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="Emmy2016won" />
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Police Under Fire"
|Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2016nom" />
|-
|CNN Special Report: "CNN Debates Coverage"
|Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story{{snd}}Long Form
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2016nom" />
|-
|Yale Undergraduate Lifetime Achievement Award
|Yale College Council
|
|
|style="background:#ddf;" |Awarded<ref>{{Cite web|title=Yale Undergraduate Lifetime Achievement Award (YULAA)|url=https://www.ycc.yale.edu/yulaa|access-date=December 12, 2020|archive-date=October 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201007033504/https://www.ycc.yale.edu/yulaa|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="9" |2017
|rowspan="9" |[[Emmy Award]]
|rowspan="9" |[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|ATAS]]/[[NATAS]]
|''60 Minutes'': "The Music of Zomba Prison"
|Outstanding Feature Story in a Newsmagazine
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="Emmy2017won">{{Cite web|title=The 38th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards Winners|url=https://theemmys.tv/38th-annual-news-documentary-emmy-awards-winners/|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=the Emmy|date=October 6, 2017|archive-date=November 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130110324/https://theemmys.tv/38th-annual-news-documentary-emmy-awards-winners/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|''60 Minutes'': "The Brothers Rosenberg"
|Outstanding Feature Story in a Newsmagazine
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2017nom">{{Cite web|title=Nominees For The 38th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards Announced|url=http://emmyonline.com/news_38th_nominations|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=the Emmy|archive-date=September 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929075203/http://emmyonline.com/news_38th_nominations|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Pulse Nightclub Massacre"
|Outstanding Breaking News Coverage
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2017nom" />
|-
|CNN: "Battle for Mosul"
|Outstanding Breaking News Coverage
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2017nom" />
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Trump Accusers Speak Out with Anderson Cooper"
|Outstanding Live Interview
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2017nom" />
|-
|CNN Newsroom: "Pam Bondi Interview with Anderson Cooper"
|Outstanding Live Interview
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2017nom" />
|-
|''60 Minutes'': "Little Jazz Man"
|Outstanding Arts, Culture and Entertainment Report
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="Emmy2017won" />
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Trump University Fraud"
|Outstanding Business, Consumer and Economic Report
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref name="Emmy2017won" />
|-
|''60 Minutes'': "The Music of Zomba Prison"
|Outstanding Writing
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2017nom" />
|-
|rowspan="10" |2018
|rowspan="8" |[[Emmy Award]]
|rowspan="8" |[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|ATAS]]/[[NATAS]]
|CNN Worldwide Hurricane Coverage
|Outstanding Breaking News Coverage
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2018">{{Cite web|title=Nominees For The 39th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards Announced|url=http://emmyonline.com/news_39th_nominations|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=the Emmy|archive-date=September 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929081320/http://emmyonline.com/news_39th_nominations|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|Manchester Concert Attack
|Outstanding Breaking News Coverage
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2018" />
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "NFL Town Hall: Patriotism, The Players and The President"
|Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2018" />
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Anderson Cooper Interviews Janet Porter"
|Outstanding Live Interview
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2018" />
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Faces of Grief: Sutherland Springs Pastor & Heather Melton"
|Outstanding Live Interview
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref>{{Cite web|title=The National Academy Of Television Arts And Sciences Announces Winners At The 39th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards|url=https://emmyonline.tv/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/news_39th_winners_release-rev3.pdf|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=the Emmy|archive-date=November 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181101140019/https://emmyonline.tv/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/news_39th_winners_release-rev3.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Sally Yates and Anderson Cooper"
|Outstanding Edited Interview
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2018" />
|-
|''60 Minutes'': "The Forger"
|Outstanding Arts, Culture and Entertainment Report
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2018" />
|-
|''60 Minutes'': "Brain Hacking"
|Outstanding Business, Consumer and Economic Report
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2018" />
|-
|[[GLAAD Media Award]]
|[[GLAAD]]
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "The Pulse of Orlando: Terror at the Nightclub"
|Outstanding Journalism Newsmagazine
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 5, 2018|title=GLAAD Media Awards: 'Call Me by Your Name' Wins Best Film|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/glaad-media-awards-complete-list-winners-2018-1078487|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|archive-date=April 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415055021/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/glaad-media-awards-complete-list-winners-2018-1078487|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism]]
|Arizona State University's&nbsp;[[Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication]]
|
|
|style="background:#ddf;" |Awarded<ref>{{Cite web|title=Anderson Cooper to be awarded the 35th Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism|url=https://www.statepress.com/article/2018/07/sppolitics-anderson-cooper-awarded-cronkite-award|website=[[The State Press]]|first=Jessica|last= Myers |date= July 17, 2018|access-date=December 12, 2020}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="6" |2019
|rowspan="6" |[[Emmy Award]]
|rowspan="6" |[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|ATAS]]/[[NATAS]]
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Undercover with Nigeria's Pushermen"
|Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newscast
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2019">{{Cite news|title=Nominees For The 40th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards Announced|url=https://theemmys.tv/news-and-documentary-40th-nominees/|access-date=December 12, 2020|newspaper=The Emmys - the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|date=July 25, 2019|archive-date=April 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200408001136/https://theemmys.tv/news-and-documentary-40th-nominees/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute
|Outstanding News Special
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2019" />
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Finding Hope: Battling America's Suicide Crisis"
|Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref>{{Cite news|title=40th News & Documentary Emmy Award Winners|url=https://theemmys.tv/news-40th-winners/|access-date=December 12, 2020|newspaper=The Emmys - the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|date=September 25, 2019|archive-date=November 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128141054/https://theemmys.tv/news-40th-winners/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|''60 Minutes'': "Stormy Daniels"
|Outstanding Edited Interview
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2019" />
|-
|''60 Minutes'': "Into the Wild"
|Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Report
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2019" />
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "The Parkland Diaries"
|Best Story in a Newscast
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2019" />
|-
|rowspan="4" |2020
|rowspan="4" |[[Emmy Award]]
|rowspan="4" |[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|ATAS]]/[[NATAS]]
|A Deadly Weekend in America
|Outstanding Breaking News Coverage
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2020">{{Cite news|title=Nominees Announced For The 41st Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards|url=https://theemmys.tv/news-41st-nominations/|access-date=December 12, 2020|newspaper=The Emmys - the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|date=August 6, 2020|archive-date=January 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125230257/https://theemmys.tv/news-41st-nominations/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Anderson Cooper Interviews Facebook's Monika Bickert"
|Outstanding Live Interview
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2020" />
|-
|''60 Minutes'': "Mark Bradford"
|Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Report
|style="background:#dfd;" |Won<ref>{{Cite news|title=Winners In Documentary Television Programming For The 41st Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards Announced|url=https://theemmys.tv/news-41st-news-programming-winners/|access-date=December 12, 2020|newspaper=The Emmys - the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|date=September 22, 2020 }}</ref>
|-
|''Anderson Cooper 360'': "Anderson Cooper Pays Tribute to his Mom, Gloria Vanderbilt"
|Outstanding Writing
|style="background:#fdd;" |Nominated<ref name="Emmy2020" />
|-
|2023
|Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism
|[[Poynter Institute]]
|
|
|style="background:#ddf;"|Awarded<ref>{{Cite web |last=Grau |first=Mel |date=June 27, 2023 |title=Anderson Cooper to receive Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism |url=https://www.poynter.org/from-the-institute/2023/anderson-cooper-journalism-award/ |access-date=December 14, 2023 |website=Poynter |language=en-US |archive-date=December 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231214171824/https://www.poynter.org/from-the-institute/2023/anderson-cooper-journalism-award/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|2023
|Webby Award for Best Series (Podcast)
|Webby Awards
|"All There Is" Podcast
|Best Series (Podcast)
|Won (People's Voice)<ref name=":0" />
|-
|2023
|Webby Award for Best Host (Podcast)
|Webby Awards
|"All There Is" Podcast
|Best Host (Podcast)
|Honored<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 2023 |title=2023 Webby Honoree: Best Host - All There Is |url=https://winners.webbyawards.com/2023/podcasts/features/best-host/247179/all-there-is-with-anderson-cooper |access-date=March 28, 2024 |website=The Webby Awards |archive-date=March 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329202424/https://winners.webbyawards.com/2023/podcasts/features/best-host/247179/all-there-is-with-anderson-cooper |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|2024
|Ambie Award for Best Podcast Host
|The Podcast Academy
|"All There Is" podcast
|Best Podcast Host
|Nominated<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 2024 |title=2024 Ambie Award Nominees: Best Podcast Host |url=https://www.ambies.com/2024-nominees-and-winners#BestPodcastHost |access-date=March 28, 2024 |website=The Ambie Awards |archive-date=April 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420210900/https://www.ambies.com/2024-nominees-and-winners#BestPodcastHost |url-status=live }}</ref>
|}

=== Other awards ===
* Silver Plaque from the [[Chicago International Film Festival]] for his report from [[Sarajevo]] on the [[Bosnian War]]<ref name="tenacitymarks" /><ref name="cnnbio">{{Cite news|year=2010|title=Anchors & Reporters – Anderson Cooper|publisher=[[CNN]]|url=http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/cooper.anderson.html|url-status=live|access-date=July 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715134749/http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/cooper.anderson.html|archive-date=July 15, 2010}}</ref>
* Bronze Award from the National Education Film and Video Festival for a report on [[political Islam]]<ref name="tenacitymarks" /><ref name="cnnbio" />

== Career timeline ==
* 1999–2000: ''[[World News Now]]'' co-anchor<ref name="autogenerated1">{{IMDb name|0177846}}</ref>
* 2001–2002: ''[[The Mole (American TV series)|The Mole]]'' host<ref name="autogenerated1" />
* 2002–present: ''[[New Year's Eve Live]]'' co-anchor on [[CNN]] and [[CNN International]]
* 2003–present: ''[[Anderson Cooper 360°]]'' anchor<ref name="autogenerated1" />
* 2005: ''[[NewsNight]]'' co-anchor<ref name="autogenerated1" />
* 2007–present: ''[[60 Minutes]]'' correspondent<ref name="autogenerated1" />
* 2011–2013: ''[[Anderson Live]]''
* 2021: ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' guest host<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dr. Mehmet Oz, Anderson Cooper, Savannah Guthrie and Dr. Sanjay Gupta Join Jeopardy! Guest Host Lineup {{!}} J!Buzz {{!}} Jeopardy.com|url=https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/news-events/additional-guest-hosts-join-jeopardy|access-date=February 2, 2021|website=www.jeopardy.com|language=en}}</ref>

==Filmography==
* ''[[Chappie (film)|Chappie]]'' (2015)
* ''[[The 33]]'' (2015)
* ''[[Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice]]'' (2016)
* ''[[Black Panther: Wakanda Forever]]'' (2022)

==Books==
* ''Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival'' ([[Harper Perennial]], 2006). {{ISBN |978-0061451515}}.
* ''The Rainbow Comes and Goes'' ([[Harper Perennial]], 2016). {{ISBN |978-0062454942}}.
* ''Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty''. Hardcover – September 21, 2021 {{ISBN |0062964615}}
* ''Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune''. Harper – September 19, 2023 {{ISBN |978-0062964700}}

==See also==
* [[LGBT culture in New York City]]
* [[List of LGBT people from New York City]]
* [[New Yorkers in journalism]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* [https://edition.cnn.com/shows/ac-360 Anderson Cooper 360° Blog]
* [http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/cooper.anderson.html CNN: Anchors & Reporters: Anderson Cooper] (profile)
* {{C-SPAN|1010279}}
* {{Charlie Rose view|473}}
* {{IMDb name|177846}}
* {{New York Times topic|people/c/anderson_cooper}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110207045256/http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/55411/anderson-cooper-the-silver-fox#index/0 Anderson Cooper: The Silver Fox]
* {{EmmyTVLegends name|anderson-cooper}}

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