Audie Cornish is the host of NPR

NPR

NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...

's Weekend Edition Sunday.

Cornish is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts

This article relates to the statewide university system. For the flagship campus often referred to as "UMass", see University of Massachusetts Amherst...

 at Amherst. During her years there, she interned with NPR, and worked with campus radio station WMUA

WMUA

WMUA is a student-run College radio station broadcasting a Variety format. Licensed to Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, the station serves the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and its signal is also received in southern New Hampshire and western Worcester County, Massachusetts...

.

Previous jobs include reporting for the NPR station WBUR

WBUR

WBUR refers to two radio stations in Massachusetts, WBUR AM and FM, both owned by Boston University. WBUR is the largest of three NPR member stations in Boston, Massachusetts, along with WGBH and WUMB-FM, and the only one to focus exclusively on news and talk...

, a reporter for the Associated Press in Boston, NPR's reporter for 10 southern states and reporting on Capitol Hill issues.

On September 4, 2011, Audie replaced Liane Hansen

Liane Hansen

Liane Hansen is an American journalist and radio personality who was senior host of the National Public Radio newsmagazine Weekend Edition Sunday until her retirement in May 2011...

on the Weekend Edition Sunday program. Hansen had served as host of the show for more than twenty years.