CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper To Participate In ‘Fireside Chat’ at Opening Session

Anderson Cooper, anchor of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360°,” will be the featured guest at a “fireside chat” during the Opening Session at APA’s 2024 Annual Meeting in New York City.

“Anderson Cooper 360°” is a global newscast that goes beyond the headlines with in-depth reporting and investigations. The show airs weeknights at 8 p.m. ET on CNN and is simulcast to an international audience on CNN International. Since April 2023, Cooper has also anchored “The Whole Story,” airing Sundays on CNN, which showcases character-driven stories, special interviews, profiles, and investigative deep dives from CNN anchors and correspondents.

Since the start of his career in 1992, Cooper has worked in nearly 80 countries and has covered nearly all major news events around the world, often reporting from the scene. Cooper has also played a pivotal role in CNN’s political and election coverage. He has anchored from political conventions and moderated several presidential primary debates and town halls. In 2016, Cooper was selected by the Committee on Presidential Debates to co-moderate one of the three debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

In addition to his shows on CNN, Cooper is also a regular correspondent for CBS’s “60 Minutes.” He has won a number of major journalism awards. He helped lead CNN’s Peabody Award–winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina and duPont Award-winning coverage of the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Additionally, he has been awarded 20 Emmy Awards, including two for his coverage of the earthquake in Haiti and an Edward R. Murrow Award.

Cooper’s four books—Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune; Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an America Dynasty; The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss; and Dispatches From the Edge: A Memoir of Wars, Disaster, and Survival—all topped The New York Times bestseller list.

Before joining CNN, Cooper was an ABC News correspondent and anchor of the network’s reality program “The Mole.” Cooper anchored ABC’s overnight newscast “World News Now” and was a correspondent for “World News Tonight” as well as “20/20.”

Cooper graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a bachelor’s degree in political science. He also studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi. Cooper is based in New York City. ■