- Sylvia Poggioli
Sylvia Poggioli (born c.
1948 ) is an American radio reporter forNational Public Radio . She is that network's senior European correspondent.Poggioli was born in
Providence, Rhode Island , and raised inCambridge, Massachusetts , where she attended the Buckingham School, nowBuckingham Browne & Nichols . She graduated fromHarvard in 1968. She did post-graduate work at the University of Rome as aFulbright Scholar . The selection of Rome was no coincidence, as her parents fled thefascist s in the 1930s.Beginning in 1971, Poggioli worked for
Ansa , the Italian news service, on their English desk. She made her debut on NPR onSeptember 4 ,1982 . She continued serving both Ansa and NPR for four years before leaving Ansa in 1986.Poggioli eventually rose to European correspondent for NPR. Her radio career was interrupted in 1990 when she spent a year as a research fellow at the
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.Poggioli was in
London , gathering European reaction, during the 1991Gulf War . Later, she was lauded for her coverage of the war between the Bosnians, Serbs, and Croats. For her coverage of theBalkans , she won theGeorge Foster Peabody Award in 1993.Poggioli was the featured reporter for the
funeral of Pope John Paul II and subsequent conclave.Poggioli has become a favorite reporter of the Magliozzi Brothers on "
Car Talk ", possibly on account of their common Italian ancestry and her tongue twister name. Her name has also been featured in the absurdist comic strip "Zippy the Pinhead ".She is currently based in
Rome .External links
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101034 NPR biography]
* [http://www.weku.fm/SylviaPoggioli.htm "An American in Europe: NPR's Sylvia Poggioli"]
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