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Monday, 12 May 2008

"It was a scene that was repeated over and over again"

Two National Public Radio correspondents in central China by chance for a week's worth of feature stories instead found themselves reporting gripping details of the earthquake that killed thousands on Monday.

Melissa Block narrated a first-person account while the ground was shaking and her report made it onto NPR within an hour and a half.

Block and fellow 'All Things Considered' host Robert Siegel were in China to report a week's worth of stories that were to air next week, the first time they had taken their show overseas. They purposedly went to Chengdu because it was a city many Americans knew little about. Read more


Full Story http://www.topix.com/business/radio/2008/05/npr-correspondents-by-chance-in-earthquake?fromrss=1.




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