Audie Cornish Joins CNN+ As Anchor And Correspondent
deadline.comAudie Cornish, who just last week announced her departure from NPR’s All Things Considered, is joining CNN+ as anchor and correspondent.Cornish will host a weekly show for the network’s subscription streaming service, set to debut in the spring, and will contribute to its live programming.
She also will host a new podcast and will appear on CNN covering breaking news.“There are fresh stories to be told and new ways to tell them,” Cornish said in a statement.CNN+ will launch in the spring, and will feature shows from Chris Wallace, Anderson Cooper and Kasie Hunt, among others.
Cornish will be based in Washington and will start in February.Cornish has been with NPR since 2005 on the national desk, and joined the politics team in 2008.
She was named host of Weekend Edition Sunday in 2011, and then became co-host of All Things Considered in 2012. She won a George Foster Peabody Award for her work with David Isay’s StoryCorps 9/11 Project, among other honors.
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