Anderson Hays Cooper is an American broadcast journalist and political commentator currently anchoring the CNN news broadcast show
Anderson Cooper 360°. In addition to his duties at CNN, Cooper serves as a correspondent for
60 Minutes on 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 as a correspondent in 1995, but he soon took more jobs throughout the network, working for a short time as a co-anchor, reality game show host, and fill-in morning talk show host.