{"id":580,"date":"2026-02-21T13:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/?p=580"},"modified":"2026-02-21T13:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:18:13","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:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Cooper gives up his 19-year-career at CBS for his young sons \u2013 his next step revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"66\" data-end=\"333\">Anderson Cooper has announced he is leaving\u00a0<em data-start=\"110\" data-end=\"122\">60 Minutes<\/em>\u00a0after nearly 20 years \u2014 not due to controversy, but to focus on his family. The 16-time Emmy-winning journalist said he wants to spend more time with his young sons while they still want to spend time with him.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"335\" data-end=\"554\">Cooper, who continues his work at CNN and hosts a podcast and\u00a0<em data-start=\"397\" data-end=\"414\">The Whole Story<\/em>, called his time at\u00a0<em data-start=\"435\" data-end=\"447\">60 Minutes<\/em>\u00a0a career highlight. CBS News thanked him for his dedication and said the door remains open for his return.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"556\" data-end=\"843\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Becoming a father changed Cooper\u2019s life. He welcomed his first son, Wyatt, in 2020, and his second son, Sebastian, in 2022, co-parenting with former partner Benjamin Maisani. Cooper has described parenthood as \u201cthe best time in my life\u201d and says he wants to be the best father he can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Anderson Cooper has announced he is leaving\u00a060 Minutes\u00a0after nearly 20 years \u2014 not due to controversy, but to focus on his family. The 16-time Emmy-winning <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/?p=580\" title=\"Anderson Cooper gives up his 19-year-career at CBS for his young sons \u2013 his next step revealed\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazefeed.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}