All Things Considered,NPR s award-winning afternoon newsmagazine.
Previously, she served as host of
Weekend Edition Sunday. Prior to moving into that host position in the fall of 2011, Cornish reported from Capitol Hill for NPR News, covering issues and power in both the House and Senate and specializing in financial industry policy. She was part of NPR s six-person reporting team during the 2008 presidential election, and had a featured role in coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Cornish comes to Washington, D.C., from Nashville, where she covered the South for NPR, including many the Gulf states left reeling by the 2005 hurricane season. She has also covered the aftermath of other disasters, including the deaths of several miners in West Virginia in 2006, as well as the tornadoes that struck Tennessee in 2006 and Alabama in 2007.
Following a January suspension, the president of the TV Stations group,
Peter Dunn, and SVP of news,
David Friend, have left CBS according to an email sent Wednesday, per the LA Times. CBS released a statement saying the pair “will not return to their positions and will be leaving the Company.”
Public pressure to cut ties with them came after the
LA Times released their investigation of CBS and alleged that the pair harassed, insulted, and bullied Black and female journalists. Such claims include Dunn refusing to extend the contract for,
Rahel Solomon, a Black anchor at KYW, and said “I hate her face” while on a phone call. Additionally, he allegedly called another Black anchor, Ukee Washington, a “jive guy.”
By City News Service
US-MEDIA-TELEVISION-CBS
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - CBS has ousted two powerful TV station executives - - including one who oversaw KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV in Los Angeles – following allegations of racist and abusive behavior.
Peter Dunn, who served as president of the TV Stations group since 2009, and David Friend, the senior vice president of news for more than a decade, are no longer part of CBS, the company s chief executive, George Cheeks, said in an email to staff on Wednesday, according to multiple media outlets.
The move comes two months after an investigation by the Los Angeles Times alleged that the pair cultivated an environment that included bullying female managers and blocking efforts to hire and retain Black journalists.
Cheryl Corley
Cheryl Corley is a Chicago-based NPR correspondent who works for the National Desk. She primarily covers criminal justice issues as well as breaking news in the Midwest and across the country.
In her role as a criminal justice correspondent, Corley works as part of a collaborative team and has a particular interest on issues and reform efforts that affect women, girls, and juveniles. She s reported on programs that help incarcerated mothers raise babies in prison, on pre-apprenticeships in prison designed to help cut recidivism of women, on the efforts by Illinois officials to rethink the state s juvenile justice system and on the push to revamp the use of solitary confinement in North Dakota prisons.
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