Melissa Block is certain to win numerous awards for her coverage of the earthquake in China's Sichuan province.
She and Robert Siegel were coincidentally in China for other (olympics-related, I assume) stories, and have both been reporting brilliantly.
But Block's reporting has been especially powerful. In the immediate aftermath of the quake she was on the scene of horrendous catastrophe but reported it with complete professionalism. She was eloquent and descriptive though she was obviously personally shaken by what she was witnessing.
Over the following two days their reports have continued to be top-notch. They have provided the story while taking pains to respect the needs, emotions, and dignity of the victims.
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A sign of a good reporter is someone who can create an image in great detail by conveying the scope of the emotion and the tragedy through description & facts, not by inflecting their own emotional subjective adjectives such as "heartbreaking."
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