Serial was honored with a Peabody award in April 2015, noting that it took podcasting into the cultural mainstream.
In 2013, she began work on a spinoff podcast of the This American Life radio program titled Serial, which debuted in October 2014. She co-produced the 2006 Peabody Award-winning episode of This American Life titled 'Habeas Schmabeas.' She began working as a producer for This American Life in January 2004. She covered the State House (politics) for the Concord Monitor and later for the Baltimore Sun. Then she worked in Russia as a reporter for ABC News and later for The New York Times. Career Īfter graduating from college Koenig began working as a reporter at The East Hampton Star.
She attended Columbia University for a postgraduate degree in Russian history, but she left after two weeks. Koenig graduated from the University of Chicago in 1990 with an A.B., majoring in Political Science. After her parents' divorce, Sarah’s mother married writer Peter Matthiessen. Koenig was born July 1969 in New York City to Julian Koenig and his second wife, Maria Eckhart.
