Previous jobs include reporting for the NPR station
WBUR, for the
Associated Press in Boston, and for NPR on 10
southern states and
Capitol Hill issues. She shared the 2005 first prize in the National Awards for Education Writing for a study of the
achievement gap between races. She is a member of the
National Association of Black Journalists.
Weekend Edition and All Things Considered On September 4, 2011, Cornish replaced
Liane Hansen on NPR's
Weekend Edition Sunday. Hansen had served as host of the show for more than 20 years. At the end of the December 18, 2011, broadcast of
Weekend Edition, Cornish announced that she would be leaving the program in January 2012 to co-host
All Things Considered during the 2012 election year, to be replaced on January 8 by
Rachel Martin. It was subsequently reported that the change was due to
Michele Norris's decision to step down from
All Things Considered during the 2012 election year because her husband had taken a position in the
Obama re-election campaign. On January 3, 2013, NPR announced that Cornish would remain the host of the show and that Norris would instead return as a special correspondent. In August 2017, Cornish announced that she would take leave from NPR during her maternity leave. During her leave, she published occasional interviews in
The New York Times Magazine.
All Things Considered has an audience of 14 million listeners per week. Cornish's exit followed the departure of NPR hosts
Noel King and
Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
Other projects From 2018 to 2019, Cornish hosted
Profile, a
BuzzFeed News interview TV show released exclusively on
Facebook. This show was funded by Facebook as part of the social platform's push into investing in video news programming through its
Facebook Watch platform. Each episode of
Profile featured "a different newsmaker each week, giving viewers a chance to hear from the biggest names in politics, tech, business, and entertainment." On January 10, 2022, it was announced that Cornish joined
CNN+ to host a weekly show. On November 17, 2022, Cornish's weekly podcast
The Assignment with Audie Cornish released its premiere episode.
The Assignment, "pulls listeners out of their digital echo chambers to hear from the people who live the headlines," and received the "Best Interview Podcast" award at the 2023
Ambies. On January 23, 2025, it was announced that Cornish would become host of
CNN's early-morning newscast
CNN This Morning in March 2025, succeeding
Kasie Hunt. ==Personal life==