He resides in a 1906 8,420-square-foot firehouse in Greenwich Village that he bought in 2010 for $4.3 million and that he and architect Cary Tamarkin spent the next few years renovating.ĭressed in a form-fitting green V-neck T-shirt, Cooper appeared from what looked like a Victorian-era library, complete with ceiling-to-floor bookshelves and an antique globe, as he reported the night’s news. The married couple Katy Tur (MSNBC) and Tony Dokoupil (CBS) even alternate broadcasting from a shared space they have created in their New York home, one occasionally doing hair and makeup for the other.ĬNN’s Anderson Cooper, though, gave viewers a tantalizing glimpse of his Manhattan home on March 20, when a member of his staff showed symptoms of the coronavirus and Cooper quickly had to broadcast from his home for an evening. Others are have successfully transformed spaces in their homes into professional-level settings. Many of the network anchors, like NBC’s Lester Holt, are reporting from home in makeshift studios that have been constructed to like their usual perch, complete with impressive backdrops.

Jennifer Ashton, the chief medical correspondent for ABC News, delivers her reports from a spot in her home where she is bracketed by a vase of artfully arranged orchids and a framed watercolor, perhaps to offer the viewer a somewhat soothing contrast to her daily pronouncements on the pandemic’s deadly spread. CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski has an array of stuffed toy squirrels in his den that has drawn the deep curiosity of viewers. Former secretary of labor Robert Reich seems to like being interviewed from the bucolic porch of his Berkeley, California, home. senator Claire McCaskill recently appeared on Morning Joe from a cozy kitchen that drew praise from cohost Mika Brzezinski. Not everyone has turned to bookshelves as their go-to backdrops: The former U.S. The top shelf was all red, the bottom shelf all blue. Then, I noticed something that had at first escaped my attention: All her books had been apparently arranged by color. I moved off the couch and inched closer to the set, but I couldn’t make out any of the titles. And I found myself curious about what she might have been reading. There were two shelves behind her, both lined with books. Instead, I found myself trying to read the titles of the books that occupied the shelves in the makeshift studio she had created in her Washington, DC–area home, a place from which she had been reporting remotely since the pandemic began.

I was watching MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt talk about the recently passed stimulus bill.īut I wasn’t really watching Hunt herself or hearing her describe the behind-the-scenes negotiations that led to the bill’s passage. On a recent morning, I found myself in my usual position-on my couch, planted in front of the TV, watching the news, something I have done every single day for hours at a time since the coronavirus pandemic came to New York.

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