CNN Locks Up Anderson Cooper For Roughly $4M Per Year

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The flak-jacketed, flaxen-coifed flyboy has signed multiyear deal with CNN — which will allow him to continue to contribute to 60 Minutes — for roughly $4 million per year, B&C reports: “According to industry sources, Cooper’s old deal was worth in the neighborhood of $2 million a year and his new payday is more than double that amount.”

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