Block is a 30-year veteran of NPR. She joined the network in 1985 as an editorial assistant for “All Things Considered.” She later became a senior producer and New York correspondent for NPR.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Melissa Block was a Host for All Things Considered in NPR with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1990 Interview as an Associate Producer ...

Melissa Block speaks with David Wasserman, House editor for The Cook Political Report, about the leanings of congressional districts in the U.S., polarized districts and roots in the shutdown.

It's a country song. MELISSA BLOCK, BYLINE: And a Kris Kristofferson song has characters so vivid, you feel like you're right there with them on the next bar stool or in the cab of a truck.

Video is posted on a Web site that could show the execution in Iraq of 12 hostages from Nepal. The hostages came to Iraq to work as cooks and cleaners for a Jordanian firm. Hear NPR's Melissa ...

MELISSA BLOCK, Host: The Barack Obama campaign is apologizing to two Muslim women for the way they were treated at a rally on Monday.

Melissa Block talks with NPR's Anne Garrels, who is in Baghdad, about the challenges of getting basic utilities up and running in Iraq, an environment where looting is rampant, power is ...

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Vincent Cannistraro, former CIA chief of counter-terrorism, about Sen. Pat Roberts' sweeping proposal to reorganize government intelligence organizations.

Hear NPR's Melissa Block and columnists E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and David Brooks of the New York Times on events of the last week.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Don Cheadle, star of the new film Hotel Rwanda. It's based on the true story of a Rwandan hotel manager who sheltered over 1,000 people during the country's genocide ...