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Sylvia Poggioli joined NPR's foreign desk in 1982. In early 1991, she supplemented NPR's Gulf War coverage, reporting from London on European reactions to events surrounding the war. From 1971 to 1986, she served as an editor on the English-language desk for the Ansa News Agency in Italy. In 1990, she spent an academic year at Harvard University as a research fellow at Harvard University's Center for Press, Politics, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Poggioli was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for her distinctive, cultivated and authoritative reports on Ethnic Cleansing In Bosnia for the year 1994. In 2004, she was the inaugural recipient of the WBUR Foreign Correspondent Award. In 2002, she received the Welles Hangen Award for Distinguished Journalism from Brown University. In 2000, she received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Brandeis University. Her reports on the Bosnian conflict earned two awards in 1993: the George Foster Peabody Award and the Edward Weintal Journalism Prize. She also won two awards in 1994, the National Women's Political Caucus/Radcliffe College Exceptional Merit Media Award and the Silver Angel Excellence in the Media Award. She was part of the NPR team that won the 2000 Overseas Press Club award for coverage of NATO's 1999 air war against Yugoslavia. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Poggioli was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She graduated from Harvard College in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in Romance Languages and Literature. She later studied in Italy under a Fulbright Scholarship.

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