{"id":336859,"date":"2026-05-18T21:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=336859"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:10:20","slug":"anderson-cooper-signs-off-60-minutes-after-nearly-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/anderson-cooper-signs-off-60-minutes-after-nearly-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Cooper Signs Off 60 Minutes After Nearly 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Anderson Cooper<\/strong> is officially off the clock.<\/p>\n<p>The journalist signed off his final episode of the CBS news program <em>60 Minutes<\/em> on Sunday, May 17, after nearly 20 years as a correspondent.<\/p>\n<p>As he parted from the long-running series, Cooper, 58, expressed his hope that <em>60 Minutes<\/em> \u201cstays<em> 60 Minutes<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s only a few things which have been around for so long as<em> 60 Minutes<\/em> has and [have been able to] maintain the standard that it has,\u201d Cooper said. \u201cThings can at all times evolve and alter, and I believe that\u2019s awesome, and things should evolve and alter, but I hope the core of what<em> 60 Minutes<\/em> is at all times stays. I believe the independence of <em>60 Minutes<\/em> has been critical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe the trust it has with viewers is critical to the success of <em>60 Minutes<\/em>. Whenever you see a <em>60 Minutes<\/em> story, and also you\u2019re like, \u2018That was a extremely good story,\u2019 it was a superb story since it requires time, it requires patience, it requires money,\u201d he added. \u201cI hope that\u2019s known and honored and valued and continues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cooper joined <em>60 Minutes<\/em> in the course of the 2006-2007 television season. He has juggled his correspondent role together with his position as an anchor at CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire time I\u2019ve done pieces on<em> 60 Minutes<\/em>, my full-time job has been over at CNN, and still is,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s been really difficult to do the form of work you should do to have an ideal <em>60 Minutes<\/em> piece on. CNN doesn\u2019t prefer it if I take plenty of time without work to work on a <em>60 Minutes<\/em> piece, so I\u2019ve worked mostly for <em>60 Minutes<\/em> on weekends. My vacation time at CNN has been working on <em>60 Minutes<\/em> pieces. I\u2019ve loved it, but it surely\u2019s been tough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cooper first announced his exit from the CBS program in February.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Andy-Cohen-and-Anderson-Cooper-Sweetest-BFF-Moments.jpg?crop=0px%2C47px%2C992px%2C560px&#038;resize=400%2C225&#038;quality=40&#038;strip=all\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Andy-Cohen-and-Anderson-Cooper-Sweetest-BFF-Moments.jpg?crop=0px%2C47px%2C992px%2C560px&#038;resize=200%2C113&#038;quality=40&#038;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Andy-Cohen-and-Anderson-Cooper-Sweetest-BFF-Moments.jpg?crop=0px%2C47px%2C992px%2C560px&#038;resize=300%2C169&#038;quality=40&#038;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Andy-Cohen-and-Anderson-Cooper-Sweetest-BFF-Moments.jpg?crop=0px%2C47px%2C992px%2C560px&#038;resize=400%2C225&#038;quality=40&#038;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Andy-Cohen-and-Anderson-Cooper-Sweetest-BFF-Moments.jpg?crop=0px%2C47px%2C992px%2C560px&#038;resize=600%2C338&#038;quality=40&#038;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Andy-Cohen-and-Anderson-Cooper-Sweetest-BFF-Moments.jpg?crop=0px%2C47px%2C992px%2C560px&#038;resize=800%2C450&#038;quality=40&#038;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Andy-Cohen-and-Anderson-Cooper-Sweetest-BFF-Moments.jpg?crop=0px%2C47px%2C992px%2C560px&#038;resize=900%2C506&#038;quality=40&#038;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Andy-Cohen-and-Anderson-Cooper-Sweetest-BFF-Moments.jpg?crop=0px%2C47px%2C992px%2C560px&#038;resize=1000%2C563&#038;quality=47&#038;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Andy-Cohen-and-Anderson-Cooper-Sweetest-BFF-Moments.jpg?crop=0px%2C47px%2C992px%2C560px&#038;resize=1200%2C675&#038;quality=55&#038;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Andy-Cohen-and-Anderson-Cooper-Sweetest-BFF-Moments.jpg?crop=0px%2C47px%2C992px%2C560px&#038;resize=1600%2C900&#038;quality=40&#038;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Andy-Cohen-and-Anderson-Cooper-Sweetest-BFF-Moments.jpg?crop=0px%2C47px%2C992px%2C560px&#038;resize=1800%2C1012&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Andy-Cohen-and-Anderson-Cooper-Sweetest-BFF-Moments.jpg?crop=0px%2C47px%2C992px%2C560px&#038;resize=1920%2C1080&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper Sweetest BFF Moments\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper\u2019s Best BFF Moments Over the Years<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tAndy Cohen and Anderson Cooper share every thing from equivalent initials to similar professions, which makes it easy to see why the twosome are best friend goals. Cohen and Cooper met within the early \u201990s once they were almost arrange on a blind date. Nevertheless, the pair\u2019s dynamic never became romantic because Cohen broke Cooper\u2019s [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cBeing a correspondent at <em>60 Minutes<\/em> has been certainly one of the nice honors of my profession. I got to inform amazing stories, and work with a few of one of the best producers, editors and camera crews within the business,\u201d he told <em>Variety<\/em> in a press release on the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor nearly 20 years, I\u2019ve been in a position to balance my jobs at CNN and CBS, but I actually have little kids now and I would like to spend as much time with them as possible, while they still need to spend time with me,\u201d he added, referring to sons Wyatt, 6, and Sebastian, 4, whom he coparents with ex <strong>Benjamin Maisani<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper stays with CNN, where he hosts the nightly program <em>Anderson Cooper 360\u00b0<\/em> and the network\u2019s infamous Recent Yr\u2019s Eve coverage with <strong>Andy Cohen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anderson Cooper is officially off the clock. The journalist signed off his final episode of the CBS news program 60 Minutes on Sunday, May 17, after nearly 20 years as a correspondent. As he parted from the long-running series, Cooper, 58, expressed his hope that 60 Minutes \u201cstays 60 Minutes.\u201d \u201cThere\u2019s only a few things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[2967,15016,6080,2277,1303],"class_list":["post-336859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-anderson","tag-cooper","tag-minutes","tag-signs","tag-years"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336862,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336859\/revisions\/336862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}