The Huffington Post
Driving along a New Orleans road, Anderson Cooper estimated that this was his 30th trip to the city since Hurricane Katrina hit five years ago. The catastrophe was a formative event for many in the media, and Cooper’s impassioned, outraged reporting about the government’s mishandling of the crisis shot him to greater prominence than ever before.
Since then, the CNN anchor has kept his focus on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He spent eight straight weeks in the region during the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Now, with the fifth anniversary of Katrina coming on Sunday, Cooper has returned. More…