Sarah Koenig Biography
Sarah Koenig is an American journalist, public radio personality, the host and executive producer of the podcast Serial, and a former producer of the radio and television series This American Life.
How old is Sarah Koenig? – Age
She is 54 years old as of July 9, 2023. She was born in 1969 in Sagaponack, New York, United States.
Sarah Koenig Family – Education
She is the daughter of Julian Koenig with his second wife, Maria Eckhart. Sarah is of Jewish descent. She had a well-known copywriter for a father. Tanzania is the mother’s native country. Sarah’s mother married writer Peter Matthiessen following her parents’ divorce. Koenig studied in Concord, Massachusetts, at Concord Academy. In 1990, Koenig received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago, specializing in Political Science. She spent two weeks at Columbia University pursuing a postgraduate degree in Russian history before leaving.
Sarah Koenig Husband
With her spouse, Ben Schreier, an associate professor of English and Jewish studies at Penn State, and their two kids, Koenig resides in State College, Pennsylvania.
Sarah Koenig Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
Sarah Koenig Saturday Night Live
Cecily Strong played Koenig in a parody of her investigative podcast Serial called “Serial: The Christmas Surprise” on Saturday Night Live’s fortieth season. In a digital spoof for Funny or Die in 2014, Michaela Watkins played Koenig as she struggled to solve the murder of Hae Min Lee in time for Serial’s first season finale. In 2015, Koenig appeared as herself in the second season episode of BoJack Horseman, “Out to Sea,” speaking Diane Nguyen’s ringtone in a spoof of her Serial introduction. This occurred a season after podcaster Ira Glass played the same to-be-recurring role.
Sarah Koenig Podcast
Sarah and her podcast Serial inspired Tina Fey’s character Cinda Canning in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, as well as the podcast All Is Not OK in Oklahoma. Koenig appeared in the second episode of Family Guy’s twenty-second season, “Supermarket Pete,” as a podcaster attempting to solve a murder case and receive credit for it.
Sarah Koenig Career
After graduating from college, Koenig started working as a reporter for The East Hampton Star. She then worked in Russia as an ABC News reporter and later for The New York Times. She covered the State House (politics) for the Concord Monitor and later the Baltimore Sun.
She started 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.” In 2013, she began work on Serial, a spinoff podcast of the This American Life radio show that aired in October 2014. Serial received a Peabody Award in April 2015, recognizing that it helped bring podcasting into the cultural mainstream.