Melissa Block

All Things Considered

Since joining NPR in 1985, Block has worked as a producer, editor, director, and reporter, covering both breaking news and human-interest stories. She was on the staff of All Things Considered for nine years, including three as the show's senior producer, before moving to New York as a reporter in 1994.

Block has also reported overseas for NPR News. Her 1999 report investigating rape as a weapon of war in Kosovo was cited among stories for which NPR News won an Overseas Press Club Award.

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.