Sarah Koenig
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Sarah Koenig gives a talk in 2015
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| Born | Sarah Augusta Koenig |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
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| Known for | Host and executive producer of Serial |
| Spouse(s) | Ben Schreier |
| Children | 2 |
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Sarah Koenig (/ˈkeɪnɪɡ/; born July 1969) is an American journalist, public radio personality, staff producer of the television and radio program This American Life, and the host and executive producer of the acclaimed podcast Serial.
Koenig graduated from the University of Chicago in 1990 and later began working as a reporter at The East Hampton Star. Then she worked in Russia as a reporter for ABC News and later for The New York Times. She covered the State House (politics) for the Concord Monitor and later for the Baltimore Sun.
She began working as a producer for This American Life in January 2004. She co-produced the 2006 Peabody Award-winning episode of This American Life entitled "Habeas Schmabeas."
In 2013, she began work on a spinoff podcast of the This American Life radio program titled Serial. It debuted in October 2014 and was the number one podcast on iTunes when it was released. By February 2016, the season one episodes had been downloaded over 80 million times.Serial was honored with a Peabody award in April 2015, noting that it took podcasting into the cultural mainstream.
TIME magazine named Koenig one of "The 100 Most Influential People" on April 16, 2015. Also in 2015, she was named as one of The Forward 50.
Koenig is the daughter of renowned advertising copywriter Julian Koenig and Maria (Eckhart) Matthiessen. Her stepfather was novelist Peter Matthiessen.
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