NPR Vox iHeart are unionized crooked media and reveal workers recently voted to unionize. I think it was um a necessary corrective move in midst of explosive growth so from the vantage point of being at NPR we were watching this industry just blow up right like podcasting. It's not an accident that all those digital newsrooms ended up unionizing or trying to or struggling it just as they came of age that's what was gonna happen yeah now.
As she pens her memoir, Kara’s been thinking about legacy, but on this episode we reflect on the legacy of another powerhouse reporter: Audie Cornish. After hosting NPR’s flagship “All Things Considered” for a decade, Audie Cornish took a risk and left for the greener pastures of CNN+ — only to see that venture get unceremoniously squashed by CNN’s new CEO less than a month after it launched. Yet Cornish has made it work: launching a new podcast, “The Assignment” and providing on-air analysis (slash occasionally taking the anchor chair) at CNN. In a conversation taped live at the On Air Fest, where Cornish was honored with the the 2023 Audio Vanguard Award, she talks about how she learned to ask for help as a young reporter covering Hurricane Katrina, what the media industry has to pay attention to in order to outgrow its early naivete and why the “chaos” at CNN is healthy.
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