Adnan Syed, the subject of the first season of Sarah Koenig’s true-crime podcast Serial, will have a new episode named after him. On Monday, Syed was released from prison. He was serving a life sentence and had been in prison for more than two decades, despite maintaining his innocence.
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Who is Sarah Koenig?
Sarah Koenig is an American journalist, public radio personality, and the host and executive producer of the podcast Serial, as well as the former producer of the television and radio show This American Life.
Julian Koenig, a former copywriter, and his second wife, Maria Eckhart, gave birth to Koenig in July 1969 in New York City. Koenig earned an A.B. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 1990. She attended Columbia University for two weeks to pursue a postgraduate degree in Russian history, but she dropped out after two weeks.
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Koenig began working as a reporter at The East Hampton Star after graduating from college. She later worked as a reporter for ABC News in Russia, and later for The New York Times. She covered politics at the State House for the Concord Monitor and later for the Baltimore Sun.
In January 2004, she began working as a producer for This American Life. She co-produced the Peabody Award-winning This American Life episode “Habeas Schmabeas” in 2006.
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She began work on Serial, a spinoff podcast of This American Life, in 2013, and it premiered in October 2014. The Serial received a Peabody award in April 2015 for bringing podcasting into the cultural mainstream.
In 2015, TIME magazine named Koenig one of the “100 Most Influential People”. She and her husband, Ben Schreier, an associate professor of Jewish studies and English at Penn State, reside in State College, Pennsylvania, with their two children.
Sarah Koenig and her podcast Serial inspired Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, the podcast All is Not OK in Oklahoma, and Tina Fey’s character Cinda Canning.
