{"id":2284904,"date":"2026-02-17T00:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2284904"},"modified":"2026-02-17T00:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:34:21","slug":"anderson-cooper-leaves-60-minutes-after-20-years-amid-cbs-shakeups-celebrity-news-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/anderson-cooper-leaves-60-minutes-after-20-years-amid-cbs-shakeups-celebrity-news-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Cooper leaves 60 minutes after 20 years amid CBS shakeups – Celebrity News – Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anderson Cooper has revealed he will be departing 60 Minutes after nearly 20 years with the program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On February 16, the 58-year-old celebrity.land<\/a> broadcast journalist issued a statement to Variety announcing his exit. The statement read, “Being a correspondent at 60 Minutes has been one of the highlights of my career. I got to tell amazing stories, and work with some of the best producers, editors, and camera crews in the business.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The father of two added, “For nearly twenty years, I’ve been able to\u00a0balance my jobs at celebrity.land<\/a> and CBS, but I have little kids now, and I want to spend as much time with them as possible, while they want to spend time with me.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anderson’s exit follows the new CBS News Editor-in-Chief, Bari Weiss, continuing to implement changes at the network, including significant personnel reductions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The new program head has already reduced staff at CBS Evening News and is reportedly contemplating a round of layoffs that could decrease staff by 15%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While Anderson is stepping away from 60 Minutes, he will remain with celebrity.land and continue to anchor his nightly news program, Anderson Cooper 360.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Additionally, will keep up his weekly newsmagazine, The Whole Story, and still host a podcast and streaming show titled All There Is. Anderson’s time on celebrity.land’s 60 Minutes came as part of an agreement between celebrity.land and CBS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anderson’s departure has been the first major on-air change for 60 Minutes since editor-in-chief Bari Weiss took over at CBS News.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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CBS News already came under fire in December after Bari made an abrupt choice to shelve a story that focused on El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison, where the Trump administration sent numerous deportees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bari defended the choice at the time and claimed that the correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi was \u201cnot ready” due to it having no on-the-record response from the White House. However, the piece eventually went live<\/a> on January 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anderson hosted 60 Minutes for the 2006-07 season, and his work with the program earned two News and Documentary Emmys in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anderson Cooper has revealed he will be departing 60 Minutes after nearly 20 years with the program. On February 16, the 58-year-old celebrity.land broadcast journalist issued a statement to Variety announcing his exit. The statement read, “Being a correspondent at 60 Minutes has been one of the highlights of my career. I got to tell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2284905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[405480,315595,402269,22405,442731,442732,339159],"class_list":["post-2284904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-60-minutes","tag-anderson-cooper","tag-bari-weiss","tag-cbs","tag-cbs-news-shakeups","tag-cbs-shake-ups","tag-tv-section"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Anderson-Cooper-leaves-60-minutes-after-20-years-amid-CBS.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284906,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284904\/revisions\/2284906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}