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| birth_place = New York City, New York, United States| death_date = | death_place = | other_names = Serial (podcast)>SerialJournalistformer producer of the television and radio program This American Life.}}| family = Peter Matthiessen (step-father) Lester Koenig (uncle)| parents = Maria Eckhart Koenig Matthiessen Julian Koenig| footnotes = | alma_mater = University of Chicago (Bachelor of Arts)Peabody awardLowell Thomas Overseas Press Club awardHTTPS://WWW.OPCOFAMERICA.ORG/AWARDS/LOWELL-THOMAS-AWARD-2005>TITLE =THE LOWELL THOMAS AWARD 2005ACCESS-DATE = NOVEMBER 5, 2014Women's Press Club of New York award}}| spouse = Ben Schreier| children = 2}}Sarah Koenig ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|eɪ|n|ɪ|g}}; born July 9, 1969, in New York City)BOOK, Sarah Janssen, The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2017,weblink May 3, 2017, December 6, 2016, World Almanac, United States, 978-1-60057-207-4, 1737, is an American journalist, public radio personality, formerNEWS,weblink New Trial Upheld for Adnan Syed of 'Serial', The New York Times, March 29, 2018, Stack, Liam, producer of the television and radio program This American Life,WEB,weblink Radio Archive by Contributor | Sarah Koenig, 2014, November 5, 2014, This American Life from WBEZ, and the host and executive producer of the podcast Serial.WEB,weblink SERIAL | About, 2014, November 5, 2014, SERIAL, Chicago Public Media & Ira Glass,

Early life

Koenig was born July 1969 in New York City to Julian Koenig and his second wife, Maria Eckhart. Sarah is Jewish.NEWS, Philip, Eil, Say Hello to the Internet's Biggest Jewish Stars, Jewish Daily Forward, July 6, 2015,weblink Her father was a well-known copywriter. Her mother is from Tanzania.WEB,weblink In Paradise (Matthiessen) - LitLovers, WEB,weblink An examined life worth sharing, After her parents' divorce, Sarah's mother married writer Peter Matthiessen.Sarah Koenig: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Heavy.com Koenig attended Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts.WEB, 2015 Commencement Note for All Students, Concord Academy,weblink May 7, 2018, March 29, 2019,weblink dead, Koenig graduated from the University of Chicago in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Political Science. She attended Columbia University for a postgraduate degree in Russian history, but she left after two weeks.WEB,weblink Uncommon Interview: Serial's Sarah Koenig (A.B. '90), March 2015,

Career

After graduating from college Koenig began working as a reporter at The East Hampton Star.WEB,weblink Non-Cook of the Month – Sarah Koenig, May 2012, November 5, 2014, Picky Grouchy Non-Cook, Then she worked in Russia as a reporter for ABC News and later for The New York Times.WEB,weblink Staff, 2014, November 5, 2014, This American Life, Chicago Public Media & Ira Glass, She covered the State House (politics) for the Concord Monitor and later for the Baltimore Sun.WEB,weblink Sarah Koenig, November 5, 2014, OFF OFF Campus, November 5, 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20141105225355weblink">weblink dead, 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 titled "Habeas Schmabeas."WEB,weblink Habeas-Schmabeas, March 10, 2006, November 5, 2014, This American Life from WBEZ, In 2013, she began work on a spinoff podcast of the This American Life radio program titled Serial, which debuted in October 2014. Serial was honored with a Peabody award in April 2015, noting that it took podcasting into the cultural mainstream.WEB, Serial,weblink peabodyawards.com, January 20, 2016, 2014,

Recognition and honors

TIME magazine named Koenig one of "The 100 Most Influential People" on April 16, 2015.WEB,weblink The 100 Most Influential People, April 16, 2015, April 16, 2015, Time Magazine, Also in 2015, she was named as one of The Forward 50.WEB,weblink Forward 50 2015 –, Forward.com, November 7, 2015, November 11, 2015,

Personal life

Koenig lives in State College, Pennsylvania,WEB,weblink Radio show offers glimpse of professors' love story, February 16, 2009, November 5, 2014, The Daily Collegian, The Daily Collegian, State College, PA, Sellers, Caitlin, with her husband, Ben Schreier, an associate professor of Jewish studies and English at Penn State, and their two children.

In popular culture

In the fortieth season of Saturday Night Live, Koenig was portrayed by Cecily Strong in a segment titled "Serial: The Christmas Surprise",WEB, SNL, Serial: The Christmas Surprise,weblink youtube, 9 August 2023, en, December 21, 2014, a parody of her investigative podcast Serial.MAGAZINE,weblink This Hilarious SNL Serial Parody Is the Ultimate Christmas Present, December 22, 2014, Samantha Grossman, TIME,weblink October 26, 2020, live, October 26, 2020, MAGAZINE,weblink Cecily Strong's Impression of Serial Host Sarah Koenig Is Unreal, June 21, 2015, Melissa Locker, Vanity Fair,weblink August 2, 2015, dead, October 26, 2020, Also in 2014, Koenig was portrayed by Michaela Watkins struggling to solve the murder of Hae Min Lee in time for the first season finale of Serial in a digital skit for Funny or Die. In 2015, Koenig played herself in the second season episode of BoJack Horseman, "Out to Sea", voicing Diane Nguyen's ringtone with a parody of her Serial introduction.WEB,weblink BoJack Horseman Review: "Out to Sea" (2.12), Kliegman, Julie, August 7, 2015, Paste Magazine, April 8, 2020, This came a season after podcaster Ira Glass held the same to-be-recurring role.WEB,weblink Ira Glass Stunned By How Many People Want His Ringtone From 'BoJack Horseman', Arnold, Brett, September 17, 2014, Business Insider, April 8, 2020, In Hulu's Only Murders in the Building, the podcast All Is Not OK in Oklahoma and character Cinda Canning played by Tina Fey were inspired by Sarah Koenig and her podcast Serial.WEB, Marks, Andrea, September 21, 2021, The True Crime Inspiration Behind 'Only Murders In the Building',weblink September 29, 2021, RollingStone, Koenig was animated in the second episode of the twenty-second season of Family Guy, "Supermarket Pete", as a podcaster trying to solve a murder case and get credit for it.

References

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External links

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• NiemanStoryboard interview (transcript)
• The Serial Podcast Ending Is TBD (listen)
• Behind the Scenes at Serial (listen)

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