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Hannah Bloch is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist with more than 20 years of experience in the United States and overseas. She is the lead digital editor for international news at NPR in Washington, D.C. She wrote the Wall Street Journal’s “Work in Progress” column from 2014 to 2017. Previously, she was a writer and editor at National Geographic, where she reported from Afghanistan and Easter Island and authored magazine stories on subjects including archaeology, global health and the role failure plays in exploration. During an 11-year career at Time, she served for six years as the magazine’s first full-time correspondent for Pakistan and Afghanistan, where she covered a wide range of stories including the rise and fall of the Taliban regime, Pakistan's nuclear tests and violence against women. She was one of a handful of journalists to report from Kabul on September 11, 2001. Concurrently, she opened CNN's bureau in Islamabad and served for a year as its first bureau chief. She was a John S. Knight Professional Journalism Fellow at Stanford University and a Freedom Forum Asia Studies Fellow at the University of Hawaii. She studied Urdu in Lahore, Pakistan, with the University of California Berkeley Urdu Language Program, earned master’s degrees in journalism and international affairs from Columbia University, and holds a B.A. in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania.