Anderson Cooper will moonlight on 60 Minutes
By Colin Mahan - TV.comCNN anchor increases profile with segments for venerable CBS news show.
Anderson Cooper, the baby-faced CNN anchor and host of Anderson Cooper 360, has signed a deal to contribute stories to CBS's newsmagazine 60 Minutes.
CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour has been appearing in segments on the venerable CBS newsmagazine since 1996, and now Cooper will take over for her. He will be featured in up to five stories a year starting this fall, and the segments will be rebroadcast on his CNN show.
Cooper joined CNN in 2001 after doing the duty of reality-show host on the ABC series The Mole. Last year, he "became" the story when he angrily chided the US government for lackluster response in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.
In November, CNN anchor Aaron Brown was ousted from the network's flagship show, NewsNight, and the show was replaced by a two-hour version of Anderson Cooper 360.

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