Audie Cornish

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Audie Cornish co-hosts NPR’s All Things Considered. On NPR, she’s often doing live interviews on breaking stories, interviewing reporters and newsbreakers who are on the scene after huge, sometimes really scary events took place. In a world where news moves so quickly, it’s gotten easier and easier for hosts like Audie to slip up, maybe get a fact wrong. Honestly, the whole thing kind of terrifies me. But when Audie’s covering a breaking story, she’s careful, she’s unflappable, and prepared.

This week, Jesse sits down with Audie to talk about how she got into broadcasting and the difference between working in broadcasting and print journalism. She tells us what it’s like to work at such an established news institution like NPR, and why the word “dispassionate” does not describe her and her fellow broadcasters.

You can listen to Audie Cornish every weekday on NPR’s All Things Considered on your local NPR affiliate station.

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