‘60 Minutes’ gets Cooper reports

CNN’s Anderson Cooper will contribute five stories a year to “60 Minutes” on CBS in an arrangement that also allows his own channel to rebroadcast those reports, both networks said Monday.

Cooper, 38, fills a part-time slot previously taken by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and, along with Katie Couric’s arrival at CBS this fall, gives a shot of new blood to TV’s long-running and still top-rated newsmagazine.

CNN wanted more than just exposure for its best-known personality. Unlike with Amanpour, the cable network won the right to show each report once on Cooper’s own newscast.

Cooper did two stories last season for the now-defunct “60 Minutes II.”