{"id":39492,"date":"2026-02-20T00:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=39492"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:10:47","slug":"anderson-cooper-gives-up-his-19-year-career-at-cbs-for-his-young-sons-his-next-step-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=39492","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Cooper gives up his 19-year-career at CBS for his young sons \u2013 his next step revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Anderson Cooper has announced he is leaving CBS News\u2019&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><em>60 Minutes<\/em><\/strong><strong>. However, his exit has nothing to do with any controversies or breaches of contract. Instead, there is a whole different reason for Cooper\u2019s departure: And it spells family.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 16, it was announced that 16-time Emmy Award-winning journalist is ending his tenure at CBS\u2019s\u00a0<em>60 Minutes<\/em>. He spent nearly 20 years contributing to the program.\u201cBeing a correspondent at \u201960 Minutes\u2019 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,\u201d Cooper said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/anderson-cooper-exit-60-minutes-cbs-news-1236664874\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>. \u201cFor nearly twenty years, I\u2019ve 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 want to spend time with me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anderson Cooper has announced he is leaving CBS News\u2019&nbsp;60 Minutes. However, his exit has nothing to do with any controversies or breaches of contract. Instead, there is&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":102,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39494,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39492\/revisions\/39494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}