Chris Cuomo

Christopher Charles Cuomo (born August 9, 1970) is an American television journalist anchor at NewsNation, based in New York City.

Cuomo was educated at Immaculate Conception School in Jamaica, Queens; at The Albany Academy, a private university preparatory day school in Albany, New York, followed by Yale University, where he earned an undergraduate degree, and the Fordham University School of Law, where he earned his Juris Doctor in 1995.

He is a licensed attorney.

Cuomo's early career in journalism included appearances related to social and political issues on CNBC, MSNBC, and CNN.

He was a correspondent and political policy analyst for Fox News and Fox Broadcast Network's Fox Files, where he covered a wide range of stories focusing on controversial social issues.

When asked if he should be considered a journalist on his show, Cuomo said, "I don't know how that's relevant. I don't care what they classify me as. I'm not forwarding my agenda. That's not my thing. My opinion is irrelevant."

When hired for Fox Files Roger Ailes, the Fox News chairman, called Cuomo "fearless."

At ABC and as co-anchor of 20/20, his year-long coverage of heroin addiction revealed the extent to which it was affecting suburban families.

His other work has included coverage of the Haiti earthquake, child custody, bullying, and homeless teens.

Policy changes followed his undercover look at for-profit school recruiters, including an industry-wide cleanup.

Cuomo's tip from a BMW owner led to a recall of over 150,000 affected vehicles.

He has previously been the ABC News chief law and justice correspondent and the co-anchor for ABC's 20/20, news anchor for Good Morning America from 2006 to 2009, and an anchor at CNN, where he co-hosted its morning show New Day from 2013 through May 2018, before moving to Cuomo Prime Time in June 2018.

From September 2006 to December 2009, he was the news anchor for Good Morning America.

He was the primary reporter on breaking news stories, both in the U.S. and around the world, including dozens of assignments in some ten countries.

He covered the war on terrorism, embedded on multiple occasions in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq (where his convoy was hit by an IED).

He did live broadcasts of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Sago Mine collapse, and the Minneapolis bridge collapse in August 2007.

He anchored morning and evening coverage.

During his period at ABC, he had a website, "Cuomo on the Case," as well as two weekly digital programs: The Real Deal and Focus on Faith.

He also appeared with Father Edward Beck on ABC News Now, the network's 24-hour digital outlet.

In the U.S., he covered the Virginia Tech shooting, the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, and the Pennsylvania Amish school shootings.

Cuomo is the brother of Andrew Cuomo, who was the 56th governor of New York from 2011 to 2021, and the son of Mario Cuomo, who was the 52nd governor of New York from 1983 until 1994.

In November 2021, Cuomo was suspended indefinitely by CNN after reports that he assisted in the defense against the sexual harassment allegations that led to his brother's resignation.

He was fired by CNN the following month.

He subsequently joined Nexstar Media Group, hosting Cuomo for NewsNation.

Cuomo was born in the New York City borough of Queens.

He is the youngest child of Mario Cuomo, the former governor of New York, and Matilda Cuomo (née Raffa), and the brother of Andrew Cuomo, a former governor of New York.

His parents were both of Italian descent; his paternal grandparents were from Nocera Inferiore and Tramonti in the Campania region of southern Italy, while his maternal grandparents were from Sicily (his grandfather from Messina).

In February 2013, Cuomo moved to CNN to co-host its morning show.

He made his debut on CNN as field anchor on the February 8, 2013, episode of Piers Morgan Tonight, covering the February 2013 nor'easter.

In October 2017, sister network HLN premiered a new documentary series hosted by the anchor, Inside with Chris Cuomo, which focused on "stories affecting real people, in real towns and cities across America."

In March 2018, while serving as the co-anchor of CNN's morning show New Day, CNN announced that Cuomo would move to prime time to host Cuomo Prime Time.

In September 2018, he began hosting a two-hour weekday radio show "Let's Get After It" on the P.O.T.U.S. channel on SiriusXM.

On August 13, 2019, in Shelter Island, New York, Cuomo threatened to throw a heckler down a flight of stairs at a bar and chastised him with profanity-laced insults after the man called him Fredo, about the unglamorous fictional character from The Godfather novel and films.

Cuomo told the man that the use of the name "Fredo" was equivalent to "the n-word" for Italian-Americans, which caused debate on Twitter about the assertion.

Cuomo addressed the incident publicly, tweeting his appreciation to his supporters but acknowledging that he "should be better than what [he] oppose[s]."

While recovering from COVID-19 in early 2020, Chris Cuomo interviewed his brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, on his CNN program.

After reports about sexual harassment allegations against his brother surfaced, Cuomo said on his program in March 2021 that he could not cover any issues regarding the allegations on the program, acknowledging his obvious conflict of interest.

In May 2021, Cuomo was reported to have participated in strategic discussions to advise his brother on how to respond to the allegations.

CNN called Cuomo's engagement in the conversations "inappropriate" but said that it would not take any disciplinary action against him.

Multiple CNN staffers said they were "vexed" by Cuomo's conduct and the violation of journalism ethics and standards.