Melissa Block Biography

Melissa Block has been frequently reporting from communities in the center of the news Block in Chengdu China preparing for a weeklong broadcast when a massive earthquake struck the region in May 2008. Immediately following the quake Block along with co-host Robert Siegel and their production team traveled throughout Sichuan province to report extensively on the destruction and relief efforts. Their riveting coverage aired across all of NPR's programs and was carried on major news organizations around the world. In addition the reporting was recognized with the industry's top honors including a Peabody Award a duPont-Columbia Award a National Headliner Award and the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award. Throughout her career Block has covered major news events for NPR ranging from on-the-scene reporting from the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the days following Hurricane Katrina to a series from Texas gauging the impact of the Iraq War on the surrounding communities. Her reporting after the September 11 2001 attacks was part of coverage that earned NPR a George Foster Peabody Award. Block's reporting from Kosovo in 1999 was cited among stories for which NPR News won an Overseas Press Club Award.

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