Anderson Cooper will leave the CBS News program 60 Minutes after practically 20 years, he mentioned on Monday, within the newest staffing shake-up to hit the storied information journal amid broader newsroom modifications below the brand new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss.
“Being a correspondent at 60 Minutes has been one of the great honors of my career. I got to tell amazing stories, and work with some of the best producers, editors and camera crews in the business,” Cooper mentioned in a press release. “For nearly twenty years, I’ve been able to balance my jobs at NCS and CBS, but I have little kids now and I want to spend as much time with them as possible, while they still want to spend time with me.”
The editorial independence of CBS News, and its flagship investigative present 60 Minutes, has been doubtful because the community’s new proprietor, David Ellison, put in Weiss, an opinion author and editor with no prior expertise in broadcast tv.
In December, Weiss ordered 60 Minutes to hold a report on the Cecot prison in El Salvador, the place the Trump administration had despatched immigrants from Venezuela to be jailed with out due course of, arguing that it lacked the attitude of the Trump administration, which had declined requests for remark.
Cooper, who hosts his personal present on NCS, has additionally been a 60 Minutes correspondent for CBS by means of a deal between the 2 networks since the 2006-2007 season.
His latest work for this system has included experiences on so-called Covid-19 long-haulers and a wreck discovered close to Mobile, Alabama, that’s believed to be the final slave ship to have landed within the US.
Cooper joined NCS in 2001 and has reported on the Iraq battle, Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Lachlan (*60*)’s Breaker newsletter first reported Cooper’s impending departure from 60 Minutes.