In 2008 , Block was recording an interview in Chengdu , China , when the area was struck by a 7.9 magnitude earthquake . Her earthquake coverage earned her a Peabody Award , a duPont-Columbia Award , a National Headliner Award , and the Society of Professional Journalists ' Sigma Delta Chi Award . Her coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks earned NPR a George Foster Peabody Award . Also , her reporting from Kosovo in 1999 for NPR won an Overseas Press Club Award
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2008 Sichuan earthquake
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