FOR REPORTING THE STORY OF A LIFETIME — QUITE LITERALLY HIS OWN
at CNN, Anderson Cooper has experienced a great deal of dislocation in his personal life, a tender and important podcast. Released last September and recorded in a documentary style reminiscent of his days as a foreign correspondent, the podcast explores Cooper’s intimate experience with grief following the 2019 death of his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt. After landing at the top of Apple’s charts, it attracted more than 4 million listeners; the second episode was one of Apple’s top-10 most shared podcast episodes of2022. A second season is due this fall.
