Hannah Bloch

Jagdish Ghimire (World Neighbors), Anne Frahn (Global Fund for Women), and moderator Hannah Bloch (Stanford University) will address what is currently being done to defend women's health in South Asia, and what steps should be taken in the future.

Satinder Bindra , CNN's New Delhi Bureau Chief and Hannah Bloch , CNN Islamabad Bureau Chief , also report extensively from the region for the South Asia Channel.

Recent pan-regional research from PAX 2000 and ATMS 2000 ( released in October 2000 ) , show that CNN is the leading international news and business news channel in Asia.The global news network transmits five separate channels that broadcast to the Asia Pacific , South Asia , Latin America , Europe/Middle East/Africa and the United States.Combined , CNN/U.S. and CNN International can be seen in more than 230 million households in 212 countries and territories , including 26 million in Asia Pacific.More than 31 hours of programming a week is produced out of the network's state-of-the-art , fully integrated regional headquarters in Hong Kong for CNN's South Asia and Asia Pacific channels.

Incorporated a decade ago , the UTV Group today has emerged as a powerful 200-crore Pan Asian Media and Entertainment Entity consisting of six companies involved in diversified and integrated allied activities across markets , employing over 500 professionals , 422 in India , 60 in Singapore and 40 in Malaysia.

Panelists: Hannah Bloch, former Islamabad correspondent, Time & CNN; Philip Oldenburg, editor, India Briefing series and veteran South Asia watcher; Daniel Sneider, foreign affairs columnist, San Jose Mercury News.

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Hannah Bloch

Hannah Bloch was born in New York City and was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University.She studied Urdu in Lahore, Pakistan, on a program run by the University of California/Berkeley.

She started with TIME Magazine in 1991 as a science reporter in New York City, later working as a general assignment reporter in TIME's Washington bureau.

In 1996, she was named the magazine's first fulltime correspondent in Pakistan and covered Pakistan and Afghanistan until September 2002.Concurrent with her TIME assignment, she was CNN's first bureau chief in Islamabad from March 2000 to March 2001.

She is currently on a one-year leave while she is based at Stanford University as a John S. Knight Fellow.

Hannah Bloch, former Time Magazine Pakistan Correspondent

5:51AM - 5:55AM - Hannah Bloch, Time Magazine Correspondent in Islamabad.

The new Page One Award entries were judged by Helen Jung '92, a Seattle-based Associated Press reporter who has recently move to the Portland Oregonian; Hannah Bloch '84, a reporter for Time magazine; Adam Rubin '95, sports writer at the New York Daily News; Randall Lane '90, a freelance journalist; and Bob Frost '60, investment adviser and former New York Timesreporter.