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Anderson Cooper said he's leaving CBS News to spend more time with his family.
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Anderson Cooper said Monday he was exiting CBS News' "60 Minutes" after nearly 20 years.
It comes at a turbulent time for CBS News under its new editor in chief, Bari Weiss.
Some media commentators said Cooper's exit will add to the uncertainty surrounding '60 Minutes.'
Veteran broadcaster Anderson Cooper said Monday that he is leaving his role as a correspondent on CBS News' "60 Minutes" after nearly 20 years.
In a statement, Cooper said he intended to spend more time focusing on his CNN gig, and his family.
His exit comes at an already turbulent time for CBS News under its new editor in chief, Bari Weiss.
Here are what some of the leading voices in media are saying about Cooper's "60 Minutes" departure.
Keith Olbermann
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Sports broadcaster Keith Olbermann shared the news about Cooper's departure on his Bluesky account, posting: "Anderson Cooper has left the sinking ship that is Idiot Bari Weiss's New Stormfront CBS."
Olbermann later added, "Now, people will only be able to NOT watch AC on cnn."
Cooper has worked at CNN since 2001, where he is a political commentator and hosts the "Anderson Cooper 360" show.
Brian Lowry
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Brian Lowry, a longtime media columnist and current Hollywood correspondent at Status News, a media newsletter, wrote on X: "Have worked around Hollywood long enough to know nobody ever really leaves a job to spend more time with their family."
Tom Jones
Tom Jones, senior media writer at The Poynter Report, wrote in his newsletter that Cooper's departure marked "the end of a journalism era."
Jones said that Cooper's exit "certainly adds more uncertainty in a news division that is very much in flux under relatively new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss."
He added: "It also raises questions about '60 Minutes,' the previous gold standard of TV news shows."
Lydia Polgreen
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Lydia Polgreen, a New York Times opinion writer and the former editor in chief of HuffPost, posted to X on Tuesday: "I don't watch much TV news, but @andersoncooper is in a league of his own as a television journalist. A huge loss for 60 Minutes."
Brian Stelter
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CNN's chief media analyst, Brian Stelter, wrote in his "Reliable Sources" newsletter Tuesday that there are open questions about which other correspondents might leave, "and on what terms."
"The risk is obvious: Loyal '60 Minutes' viewers will leave along with the correspondents they like to watch," Stelter said.
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Cooper is leaving the fabled news show after nearly 20 years amid a shake-up under new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss
Anderson Cooper will leave the CBS News program 60 Minutes after nearly two decades, he said on Monday, in the latest staffing shake-up to hit the storied news magazine amid broader newsroom changes under the 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 said in a statement. “For nearly twenty years, I’ve been able to balance my jobs at CNN 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.”
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