Shanon Cook
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Shanon Cook is a contributing reporter for various CNN
networks primarily covering entertainment.
. In February 2009 she appeared live on CNN from Los Angeles, previewing both The Grammy Awards and The Oscars. She also reported live from Washington DC on the entertainment surrounding the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Cook has also covered business news for CNN International, breaking world news for CNN’s weekend broadcasts, and has anchored live news on CNN.com. In 2004-05 Cook presented daily live reports about entertainment on CNN Headline News’ morning show Robin and Co., now known as Morning Express with Robin Meade
. In 2002-04 Cook was a producer and reporter for the CNN International program The Music Room, a half-hour show highlighting popular bands and artists. In 2007 she hosted four specials for CNN.com Live about music and the arts. During her tenure at CNN
Cook has interviewed personalities like Britney Spears
, Alicia Keys
, Owen Wilson
, Andre 3000
, Jennifer Lopez
, Clive Davis
, John Mayer
, Kanye West
, Ludacris
and R.E.M.
Her writing has been published at CNN.com and in Billboard Magazine, and Cook has also appeared on CNN’s American Morning
as a pop culture expert.
Cook started at CNN in 1999 as an associate producer for CNN.com and worked on the site’s award-winning coverage of the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
In February 2008 Cook became a correspondent for Full Frontal Fashion
and covered New York Fashion Week Fall 2008, interviewing designers and celebrities like Marc Jacobs
, Vera Wang
, Donna Karan
, Kimora Lee Simmons
, Brooke Shields
, Ellen Pompeo
, Nicky Hilton
, Susan Sarandon
and Victoria Beckham
.
Cook is the host of a new offbeat travel series called "MIA: Most Interesting Assistant" that is scheduled to appear on MOJO HD in the fall. She has also appeared as a guest host on THE 9 on Yahoo!
and was a regular host of Firebrand on ION Television, a show that featured cutting-edge TV commercials.
Cook appears as reporter Cassandra Blair in the live-action video scenes of EA’s Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars which was released in March 2007.
, Australia
and graduated from the Queensland University of Technology
in Brisbane, Australia with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in journalism. She lives in New York with her husband, CBS News
science and technology correspondent Daniel Sieberg.
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
networks primarily covering entertainment.
Career
Cook mainly profiles musicians and artists for CNN.com and CNN.com Live, the network’s online broadband service. She hosts a segment called "Music & Conversation with Shanon Cook" which also airs on CNN InternationalCNN International
CNN International is an international English language television network that carries news, current affairs, politics, opinions, and business programming worldwide. CNN is one of the world's largest news organizations. It is owned by Time Warner, and is affiliated with CNN, which is mainly...
. In February 2009 she appeared live on CNN from Los Angeles, previewing both The Grammy Awards and The Oscars. She also reported live from Washington DC on the entertainment surrounding the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Cook has also covered business news for CNN International, breaking world news for CNN’s weekend broadcasts, and has anchored live news on CNN.com. In 2004-05 Cook presented daily live reports about entertainment on CNN Headline News’ morning show Robin and Co., now known as Morning Express with Robin Meade
Morning Express with Robin Meade
Morning Express with Robin Meade is a morning television news program that airs on the HLN television network in the United States.-About the show:...
. In 2002-04 Cook was a producer and reporter for the CNN International program The Music Room, a half-hour show highlighting popular bands and artists. In 2007 she hosted four specials for CNN.com Live about music and the arts. During her tenure at CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
Cook has interviewed personalities like Britney Spears
Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...
, Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook , better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began playing the piano...
, Owen Wilson
Owen Wilson
Owen Cunningham Wilson is an American actor and writer, known for his roles in the films The Haunting, The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander, Meet the Parents, Wedding Crashers, You, Me and Dupree, Bottle Rocket, the Cars series, The Darjeeling Limited, Marley & Me, Midnight in Paris, Shanghai Noon,...
, Andre 3000
André 3000
André Lauren Benjamin , better known by his stage name André 3000 is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and actor, best known for being part of American hip-hop duo OutKast alongside fellow rapper Big Boi...
, Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, television personality, and fashion designer. Lopez began her career as a dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color. Subsequently venturing into acting, she gained recognition in the 1995 action-thriller...
, Clive Davis
Clive Davis
Clive Davis is an American record producer and music industry executive. He has won five Grammy Awards and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer. From 1967 to 1973 he was the President of Columbia Records. He was the founder and president of Arista Records from 1975...
, John Mayer
John Mayer
John Clayton Mayer is an American pop rock and blues rock musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He moved to Atlanta in 1997, where he refined his...
, Kanye West
Kanye West
Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. West first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's album The Blueprint, as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and...
, Ludacris
Ludacris
Christopher Brian Bridges , better known by his stage name Ludacris, is an American rapper and actor. Along with his manager, Chaka Zulu, Ludacris is the co-founder of Disturbing tha Peace, an imprint distributed by Def Jam Recordings...
and R.E.M.
R.E.M.
R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...
Her writing has been published at CNN.com and in Billboard Magazine, and Cook has also appeared on CNN’s American Morning
American Morning
American Morning is the morning television show on CNN. It premiered in 2001.-About the show:American Morning is hosted by Ashleigh Banfield, Zoraida Sambolin & Soledad O'Brien. Others who appear regularly are Rob Marciano with the weather, Sunny Hostin on legal news, and CNN senior medical...
as a pop culture expert.
Cook started at CNN in 1999 as an associate producer for CNN.com and worked on the site’s award-winning coverage of the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
In February 2008 Cook became a correspondent for Full Frontal Fashion
Full Frontal Fashion
Full Frontal Fashion is an American television program of the 2000s that gives complete coverage of designer fashion shows and other aspects of the fashion industry...
and covered New York Fashion Week Fall 2008, interviewing designers and celebrities like Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for Marc Jacobs, as well as Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, with more than 200 retail stores in 60 countries. He has been the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton since 1997...
, Vera Wang
Vera Wang
Vera Ellen Wang is a Chinese American fashion designer based in New York City and former figure skater. She is known for her wide clientele of couture bridesmaid gowns and wedding gown collections.-Personal life:...
, Donna Karan
Donna Karan
Donna Karan is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels.-Early life:...
, Kimora Lee Simmons
Kimora Lee Simmons
Kimora Lee Simmons is an American fashion model, and former president and Creative Director for Phat Fashions.-Early life:...
, Brooke Shields
Brooke Shields
Brooke Christa Shields is an American actress and model. Some of her better-known movies include Pretty Baby and The Blue Lagoon, as well as TV shows such as Suddenly Susan, That '70s Show and Lipstick Jungle....
, Ellen Pompeo
Ellen Pompeo
Ellen Kathleen Pompeo is an American actress, known for playing the title role of Meredith Grey on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy.-Early life:...
, Nicky Hilton
Nicky Hilton
Nicholai Olivia "Nicky" Hilton is an American businesswoman, fashion model, socialite, celebutante, heiress and fashion designer. She is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton and younger sister of Paris Hilton....
, Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon is an American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1969, and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking. She had also been nominated for the award for four films before that and has received other recognition for her...
and Victoria Beckham
Victoria Beckham
Victoria Caroline Beckham is an English singer-songwriter, dancer, model, actress, fashion designer and businesswoman. In the late 1990s, Beckham rose to fame with the all-female pop group Spice Girls and was dubbed Posh Spice by the July 1996 issue of the British pop music magazine Top of the Pops...
.
Cook is the host of a new offbeat travel series called "MIA: Most Interesting Assistant" that is scheduled to appear on MOJO HD in the fall. She has also appeared as a guest host on THE 9 on Yahoo!
The 9 on Yahoo!
The 9 was a daily video compilation show, or vlog, on Yahoo! featuring the nine top "web finds" of the day. The 9 was launched on Yahoo!'s homepage on July 10, 2006...
and was a regular host of Firebrand on ION Television, a show that featured cutting-edge TV commercials.
Cook appears as reporter Cassandra Blair in the live-action video scenes of EA’s Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars which was released in March 2007.
Personal life
Cook was born in MelbourneMelbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and graduated from the Queensland University of Technology
Queensland University of Technology
Queensland University of Technology is an Australian university with an applied emphasis in courses and research. Based in Brisbane, it has 40,000 students, including 6,000 international students, over 4,000 staff members, and an annual budget of more than A$750 million.QUT is marketed as "A...
in Brisbane, Australia with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in journalism. She lives in New York with her husband, CBS News
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...
science and technology correspondent Daniel Sieberg.