Shattered School
Among the victims of the powerful earthquake near Chengdu, China, are hundreds of young students who are feared dead after being trapped in the rubble of their middle school.
Best News Feature2008 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition2008 / Andrea Hsu / Melissa Block / All Things Considered, USA
Among the victims of the powerful earthquake near Chengdu, China, are hundreds of young students who are feared dead after being trapped in the rubble of their middle school.
Shattered School won the Best News Feature Award in the 2008 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
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Andrea Hsu is a producer with All Things Considered.
Melissa Block hosts NPR's news magazine All Things Considered, public radio's longest-running national program, with Robert Siegel and Michele Norris. She became co-host in 2003 -– 18 years after first joining the program as an editorial assistant. Block has covered many national and international events for NPR, including September 11th, the aftermath of the Kosovo war, and the Virginia Tech shootings. Block graduated from Harvard University in 1983 with a degree in French history and literature, and spent the following year as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Geneva.