The UK Asia Center,WUKY and the UK School of Journalism and Telecommunications present:
"Reporting from China: an Evening with NPR's Melissa Block"
March 10 7:00 pm in Memorial Hall,
Free and Open to the Public
Melissa Block is a 24-year veteran of National Public Radio and has been hosting All Things Considered since 2003. Her stories from Sichuan, China, in the immediate aftermath of the devastating earthquake in May 2008, earned NPR a Peabody Award, a duPont-Columbia Award, a National Headliner Award and a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Block was one of four NPR journalists in Chengdu when the earthquake struck, turning the tiny news operation in a Sheraton hotel into the only Western broadcast news source for coverage of the disaster. She returned to China in 2009 to follow-up on the aftermath of the earthquake one year later.
The event will be moderated by WUKY's news director, Alan Lytle.
