Audie Cornish: CNN Correspondent

  • CNN Correspondent & Award-Winning Host, The Assignment Podcast
  • Throughout her career, Audie has covered some of the nation’s leading news stories in politics, entertainment, business, and pop culture.
  • Audie speaks to a wide variety of topics she has covered throughout her career and is also able to speak on “Media Trends” and “Interviewing and Intimacy – How to Break Through Vulnerabilities”

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  • Travels from: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
  • **Fee range: On Request

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  • Interviewing and Intimacy – How to Break Through Vulnerabilities
  • Media Trends
  • Moderating Sessions

Audie Cornish has become a recognized and trusted voice on the airwaves as co-host of NPR’s flagship news program, All Things Considered. Cornish’s career in journalism began at the Associated Press in Boston in 2001, just before the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The following year, her love of radio brought her to Boston’s WBUR, where […]

Audie Cornish has become a recognized and trusted voice on the airwaves as co-host of NPR’s flagship news program, All Things Considered. Cornish’s career in journalism began at the Associated Press in Boston in 2001, just before the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

The following year, her love of radio brought her to Boston’s WBUR, where she reported on the legislative battle in Massachusetts over same-sex marriage, the Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal, and other major news. After joining NPR’s National Desk in 2005, she reported from Nashville, covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and other news in the Southeastern United States.

Audie Cornish | CNN Correspondent

Cornish later joined the NPR politics team to covering the 2008 presidential race and the historic election of Barack Obama. She returned to Washington to cover Capitol Hill for NPR, reporting on Obamacare, the rise of the Tea Party movement and federal financial policy after the Great Recession in 2008 .

Her interview subjects have ranged from pop stars such as singer Maren Morris and actor Richard Gere, to political figures such as former First Lady Michele Obama and Senator Ben Sasse, to literary icons like Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Audie Cornish is based in CNN’s Washington, D.C. bureau. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband — fellow journalist and author Theo Emery — and two sons.

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