All Things Considered

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Award-winning journalist Ailsa Chang co-hosts All Things Considered and is a correspondent for NPR’s Planet Money. Previously, she was a congressional correspondent with NPR’s Washington desk. She landed in public radio after practicing law for a few years.

Prior to NPR, Chang was an investigative reporter at NPR Member station WNYC, focusing on criminal justice and legal affairs, and a reporter and producer for KQED.

Chang has earned a string of national awards for her work. In 2012, she was honored with the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for her investigation into the New York City Police Department’s “stop-and-frisk” policy and allegations of unlawful marijuana arrests by officers. 

Mary Louise Kelly is a co-host of All Things Considered, NPR’s award-winning afternoon newsmagazine. She assumed the role in January 2018. Kelly’s first assignment at NPR was as senior editor of  All Things Considered, and notably she launched NPR’s intelligence beat in 2004. Her reporting for the national security team allowed her to travel extensively, investigating foreign policy and the military. In 2013, Her debut espionage novel on the topic, Anonymous Sources, was published by Simon and Schuster. Before joining NPR, Kelly worked for CNN, PRI, and the BBC World Service. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Politico, Washingtonian, The Atlantic, and other publications. 

Audie Cornish has been co-host of All Things Considered since 2013. She was previously host of Weekend Edition Sunday on NPR. Before coming to NPR, Cornish was a reporter for Boston’s award-winning public radio station WBUR. In 2005, Cornish shared in a first prize in the National Awards for Education Writing for “Reading, Writing, and Race,” a study of the achievement gap.

Ari Shapiro joined as a weekday co-host of All Things Considered in 2015. Shapiro was previously NPR’s International Correspondent based in London, from where he traveled the world covering a range of topics for NPR. Shapiro joined NPR’s international desk in 2014 after four years as White House Correspondent during President Obama’s first and second terms. He was NPR Justice Correspondent for five years during the Bush Administration. The Columbia Journalism Review honored him with a laurel for his investigation into disability benefits for injured American veterans.

Michel Martin, weekend host of All Things Considered, also hosts “Michel Martin: Going There,” outside of the studio. Martin came to NPR in 2006 and launched Tell Me More, a one hour daily NPR news and talk show that aired on NPR stations nationwide from 2007-2014. Martin has been honored by numerous organizations and in 2002, she was awarded a Silver Gavel Award, given by the American Bar Association.