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After working as a correspondent on 60 Minutes since 2007, Anderson Cooper is leaving this system. “Being a correspondent at 60 Minutes has been one of many nice honors of my profession. I bought to inform wonderful tales, and work with a few of the greatest producers, editors, and digicam crews within the enterprise,” Cooper shared in an announcement with Deadline. “For practically twenty years, I’ve been in a position to steadiness my jobs at CNN and CBS, however I’ve little youngsters now and I need to spend as a lot time with them as potential, whereas they nonetheless need to spend time with me.” He’s nonetheless working with CNN on Anderson Cooper 360 and the New 12 months’s Eve present with Andy Cohen — please pour out a shot in respect. Final December, Cooper renewed his contract with CNN to host 360 in addition to a weekly program, The Entire Story, and a podcast, All There Is.
In an announcement shared with Vulture, CBS Information thanked Cooper for his time with the community, writing, “For greater than 20 years, Anderson Cooper has taken 60 Minutes viewers on journeys to faraway locations, instructed us unforgettable tales, reported consequential investigations and interviewed many outstanding figures. We’re grateful to him for dedicating a lot of his life to this broadcast, and perceive the significance of spending extra time with household. 60 Minutes can be right here if he ever desires to return.”
60 Minutes aired Cooper’s last phase this previous Sunday. It adopted the documentarian and lover of the gradual zoom, Ken Burns, and what he thinks the Founding Fathers of america can be shocked by immediately.