View of part of the Fujairah Corniche and the Hajar Mountains in the Background

Saturday, June 7, 2008

CNN’s Anderson Cooper Wins Zayed Prize

Emmy Award winning journalist, author, and television personality Anderson Hays Cooper will receive a special recognition from the Zayed International Prize for the Environment for his outstanding contributions to investigative journalism and reports on the CNN news Show Anderson Cooper 360°.

“As primary anchor of the CNN news show, Cooper travelled around the world with Sanjay Gupta, a chief medical correspondent, and Jeff Corwin, a wildlife biologist and Animal Planet host, for Planet in Peril,” said member of the Zayed Prize Committee Colonel Ahmed Rafia.

Further information can be found at this link:

‘Noted CNN Anchor Wins Zayed Prize’, Trade Arabia, MEBI, 7 June 2008.

Dr. Geoff Pound

Image: Anderson Cooper