Shanon Cook is an Australian entertainment journalist and producer based in the

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. A former

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entertainment reporter, she currently works as a spokesperson for the music streaming service

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, where she appears on TV and radio and talks to online and print media about music trends as well as popular and emerging artists.

Career

Cook has appeared as a pop culture expert on '' Entertainment Tonight'',

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and CNET as well as CNN, where she worked for 12 years as a producer and reporter, mainly covering music and entertainment. In 2004-05 Cook presented daily live entertainment reports on the HLN morning show ''Robin and Co.'', now known as ''

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''. In 2002-04 Cook was a producer and reporter for the

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show ''The Music Room'', a half-hour show about popular bands and artists. In 2007 she hosted four specials for CNN.com about music and the arts. During her tenure at

, Cook interviewed entertainment figures such as

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, Britney Spears,

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, Sting,

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, Annie Lennox, Jennifer Lopez, and

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. Cook was one of the last reporters to interview the band

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before they disbanded in 2011, and she reported live from Washington DC on the entertainment surrounding the inauguration of President

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. Cook also hosted an interview segment called ''Music & Conversation with Shanon Cook'' which aired on

and CNN.com. Aside from reporting on showbiz, Cook has covered business news for CNN International, breaking world news for CNN’s weekend broadcasts, and has anchored live news on

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. In February 2008 Cook was a correspondent for ''

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'' and covered

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in Fall 2008 and Spring 2009, interviewing designers and celebrities like Marc Jacobs,

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, and

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. Cook also hosted a travel series called ''MIA: Most Interesting Assistant'' that aired on MOJO HD and was a regular host of ''Firebrand'' on

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, a show about TV commercials. Cook appears as reporter Cassandra Blair during the live-action video scenes of EA’s Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars which was released in March 2007. As a writer, Cook's work has been published on CNN.com, in ''

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'' and on Refinery29, and she released an e-book, ''The Baby Bumps'', a autobiographical account of combining motherhood with a career in the television business. Cook joined

as the company's global trends expert and spokesperson in 2013.

Personal life

Cook was born in

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, Australia and graduated from the

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in Brisbane, Australia with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in journalism.

References

External links

Official website
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"Music & Conversation with Shanon Cook"
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