Audie Cornish Biography
Audie Cornish is an American anchor and correspondent working for CNN as an anchor and correspondent for CNN and the host of The Assignment, a CNN Audio podcast. She joined the CNN news team in February 2022, after previously working for NPR.
Audie Cornish Career
Cornish works as a CNN host and anchor. She is the host of the weekly CNN Audio podcast The Assignment with Audie Cornish and also reports on national, local, and breaking news for CNN. People can get out of their digital echo bubbles and listen to Cornish’s show The Assignment to hear from people who live the news. At the 2023 Ambies Awards and the 2023 Black Podcasting Awards, the show won “Best Interview Podcast” and “Best News & Politics Podcast.” After twenty years as a reporter, Cornish joins CNN as a co-host of All Things Considered, NPR’s main news show.
In 2005, she started working for NPR’s National Desk from Nashville. From there, she reported on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and other stories from the Southeast of the United States. After that, Cornish moved to Washington, D.C., to work for NPR’s news team. There, he covered the 2008 presidential election and President Barack Obama’s historic win.
She won a George Peabody Award for her work with David Isay’s StoryCorps 9/11 Project and was named host of Weekend Edition Sunday in 2011. In 2020, the National Press Foundation gave her the Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for her work. The National Association of Black Journalists gave her a Salute to Excellence Award for her feature story about the opioid problem in Baltimore.
Cornish’s first job as a reporter was at the Associated Press in Boston in 2001, not long before the September 11 attacks. She went to work at Boston’s WBUR the next year because she loved radio. There, she covered the legislative battle in Massachusetts over same-sex marriage, the Catholic priest sex abuse scandal, and other big stories. People she has interviewed include Bruce Springsteen, Senator Elizabeth Warren, former President Barack Obama, and literary greats like Ta-Nehisi Coates.
She got her high school diploma from Randolph. After that, she got a journalism degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She interned at NPR and worked with college radio station WMUA while she was there.
At CNN, Scholes works alongside; Fareed Zakaria, Fredricka Whitfield, Bill Weir, Amara Walker, John Avlon, Dana Bash, David Axelrod, John Berman, Victor Blackwell, Wolf Blitzer, Kate Bolduan, Pamela Brown, Kim Brunhuber, Erin Burnett, Alisyn Camerota, Julia Chatterley, Rosemary Church, Laura Coates, Anderson Cooper, Amanda Davies, Max Foster, Bianna Golodryga, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Laila Harrak, Erica Hill, Michael Holmes, Van Jones, Brianna Keilar, Lynda Kinkade, John King, Melissa Knowles, Christina Macfarlane, John Miller, Veronica Miracle, Bianca Nobilo, Abby Phillip, Brad Parks, Richard Quest, Don Riddell, Michael Smerconish, Boris Sanchez, Tom Sater.
Audie Cornish Salary
Cornish earns a salary of about $47,000-$120,000.
Audie Cornish Net Worth
Cornish has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which she has earned through her career as an anchor and correspondent.
Audie Cornish Age
Cornish was born on October 9, 1979, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. She is 45 years old as of 2024, and she celebrates her birthday on the 9th of October every year.
Audie Cornish Height and Weight
Cornish stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches tall (1.67m) and weighs 64 kgs (141 lbs).
Audie Cornish Family
Cornish was born in Randolph Massachusetts to Jamaican parents whose names are not known to the public yet. Cornish and her parents moved to Boston from Jamaica in the early 1980s, right when Boston’s busing problem was at its worst. His dream job was to be an engineer, but he ended up working as a defense contractor instead.
They lived in the Mattapan neighborhood, and Cornish took a voluntary bus to go to school in Newton, a rich suburb. The commutes made an impact on me. The family finally moved to Randolph, a town on the South Shore with a lot of different racial groups. Cornish’s mom ran for school board and won. It got even better at home, where Cornish and her siblings watched Gwen Ifill, Carole Simpson, and Ed Bradley as kids.
Audie Cornish Husband and Children
Cornish is married to Theo Emery, an author and editor whom they met at work when Cornish was working for the Associated Press. The couple is blessed with two children and they all reside in Washington, D.C. in a big Victorian house. She always speaks about balancing between career life and family life and the challenges that come with it.
Audie Cornish Podcast
Her podcast is called (The Assignment with Audie Cornish). On The Assignment, host Audie Cornish takes people out of their digital echo bubbles every week to hear from real people whose lives are affected by the news. Anything can be talked about, from the sex work market to the fight over what is taught in schools. Every Tuesday and Thursday, you can listen to The Assignment.
Audie Cornish Social Media Platform
Cornish is very active on her Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. She has 222.7k followers on Twitter 15.4k followers on Instagram, and 12k followers on Facebook.