
Anderson Cooper
Award-Winning CNN Anchor and Journalist
Best known as the anchor of the popular CNN news broadcast, Anderson Cooper 360°, reporter and journalist Anderson Cooper has become one of the most familiar and trusted personalities in television. He has spent countless hours reporting on life-altering events such as Hurricane Katrina, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Sri Lankan tsunami, and the historical Presidential elections in 2008. His passion for justice and his well-respected professional manner has endeared him to many, and he has played a major role in affirming the validity of broadcast journalism. Additionally, Cooper is a freelance writer, and the author of Dispatches From the Edge.
Best known as the anchor of the popular CNN news broadcast, Anderson Cooper 360°, reporter and journalist Anderson Cooper has become one of the most familiar and trusted personalities in television.
Following his graduation from Yale University, Cooper began his career in news television. Working for the small news agency, Channel One, he gained notoriety from reporting on the conflict in Burma. Analyzing and reporting on topics of conflict and within war-torn regions became Cooper’s main personal and professional priority. He spent a number of years on assignment in Africa during periods of famine, genocide and political strife.
In 1995, Cooper joined ABC News as a correspondent, and was eventually became an anchor on World News Now. He joined CNN in December 2001, and has had the reins of Anderson Cooper 360°, since September 2003. Cooper has spent countless hours reporting on life-altering events such as Hurricane Katrina, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Sri Lankan tsunami, and the historical Presidential elections in 2008. His passion for justice and his well-respected professional manner has endeared him to many, and he has played a major role in affirming the validity of broadcast journalism. Cooper and Anderson Cooper 360° have been bestowed with a number of honours, including three Emmy Awards.
In addition to freelance writing, Cooper authored his best-selling memoir, Dispatches From the Edge.
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May 2006Dispatches From the Edge
Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an unstinting, up-close view of the most harrowing crises of our time, and the profound impact they have had on his life. Striking, heartfelt, and utterly engrossing, Dispatches from the Edge is an unforgettable memoir that takes us behind the scenes of the cataclysmic events of our age and allows us to see them through the eyes of one of America's most trusted, fearless, and pioneering reporters.
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