| Cornish has watched the media evolve, experiment, and experience dramatic layoffs. In “The Assignment,” her CNN podcast, she’s trying to find a new way forward.  Photograph by Ike Edeani for The New Yorker For a decade, NPR listeners recognized Audie Cornish as a host of “All Things Considered,” where she delivered the day’s news and conducted interviews with Presidents and other politicians. “Doing it well,” as Sarah Larson writes in a thoughtful new profile of the journalist, “required an attunement not just to social forces but to people’s daily lives, their habits and obsessions.” Then, last January, Cornish surprised her followers by announcing that she was “joining the Great Resignation” and leaving public radio. She quickly landed at CNN, where, since the fall, she has hosted the weekly podcast “The Assignment with Audie Cornish.” Larson visits Cornish at her home in Washington, D.C., and talks to her about the transformations in her career—from learning early to “center diverse sources” while avoiding “being typecast as a race reporter,” to discovering who she is now, without the NPR brand behind her. In her latest act, Larson writes, Cornish is “doing something surprising: making an insightful news show that delivers substance without a side helping of despair.” Support The New Yorker’s award-winning journalism. Subscribe today » | 
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