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Today's Interview: Sylvia Poggioli shares a glimpse of her 41 years at NPR as she moves on to a new chapter.

Sylvia Poggioli
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Sylvia Poggioli

Sylvia Poggioli joined NPR’s foreign desk in 1982. She has been NPR’s senior European correspondent at its International desk where she covered cultural, economic, and political news.

Poggioli has received numerous awards in her career including a George Foster Peabody and the Silver Angel Excellence in the Media Award. She was part of a team with NPR that won the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for Coverage of the War in Kosovo.

At 76 she has decided it is time to move on from her position at NPR.

Poggioli talked with arts reporter Cheri Lawson about what’s next and shared a look at a few aspects of her 41-year career with NPR.

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Cheri is a broadcast producer, anchor, reporter, announcer and talk show host with over 25 years of experience. For three years, she was the local host of Morning Edition on WMUB-FM at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Cheri produced and hosted local talk shows and news stories for the station for nine years. Prior to that, she produced and co-hosted a local talk show on WVXU, Cincinnati for nearly 15 years. Cheri has won numerous awards from the Public Radio News Directors Association, the Ohio and Kentucky Associated Press, and both the Cincinnati and Ohio chapters of the Society for Professional Journalists.
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