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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