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Audie N. Cornish (born October 9, 1979) is an
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journalist and a former co-host of
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''. She was previously the host of ''
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, a web-only interview show that lasted one season, as well as ''NPR Presents'', a long-form conversation series with creatives about their projects, processes, and shaping culture in America.


Early life and education

Cornish was born in
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to Jamaican parents, and graduated from Randolph High School. She graduated from the
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. During her years there, she interned with NPR and worked with campus radio station
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Career

Previous jobs include reporting for the NPR station
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, for the
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in Boston, and for NPR on 10 southern states and
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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
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''Weekend Edition'' and ''All Things Considered''

On September 4, 2011, Cornish replaced
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on NPR's ''
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''. 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
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'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. On January 4, 2022, Cornish announced her resignation from NPR to join "The Great Resignation" and "try something new." Co-host
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noted that NPR is "hemorrhaging hosts from marginalized backgrounds." Cornish's exit follows the recent departure of NPR hosts
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and
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, all of whom are persons of color.


Other projects

From 2018 to 2019, Cornish hosted ''Profile'', a
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interview TV show released exclusively on
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. This show was funded by Facebook as part of the social platform’s push into investing in video news programming through its
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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." Following her resignation from NPR in early 2022, Cornish tweeted, "“I look forward to new opportunities and new ways to tell stories and to keep finding ways to make space and center the voices of those who have been traditionally left out." On January 10, 2022, it was announced that Cornish joined
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to host a weekly show.


Personal life

Audie Cornish is married to ''
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s Washington correspondent, Theo Emery. She has two children and often speaks about the challenges of balancing work and family life.


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