Melissa Block
Host, All Things Considered

Melissa Block is the newest host of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning daily evening newsmagazine. She will begin hosting All Things Considered in February 2003.

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 covered many high-profile news events for NPR; from police-brutality and terrorism trials in New York, to the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election, to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. Her 9/11 reporting was part of coverage that earned NPR News a George Foster Peabody Award.

She also has turned out distinctive features, including pieces on a trip through lower Manhattan with a trio obsessed with removing plastic bags from trees, a ride with a New York City subway buff who hears music in the rails, and an on-field deconstruction of the strike calls of Major League Baseball umpires.

Block also has 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. She is married to Wall Street Journal reporter and NPR contributor Stefan Fatsis