Hannah Beech

Hannah Beech is an American journalist. Since August 2017, she has been the Southeast Asia Bureau Chief for The New York Times based in Bangkok.[1] She formerly worked for TIME Magazine; Beech specializes in Asia, and was sometimes credited as TIME's Southeast Asia bureau chief.[2] Beech graduated in 1995 from Colby College. She did undergraduate internships at U.S. News & World Report and Asian media outlets.[3] She was the 1994 recipient of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship for Maryland.[4]

Hannah Beech
Hannah Beech at the World Economic Forum on East Asia in 2012
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In 2009, Beech was awarded for Excellence in Reporting Breaking News, Honourable Mention, in the Society of Publishers in Asia Awards for Editorial Excellence (SOPA Awards), for her reporting on Cyclone Nargis in Burma. [5] She also received a 2007 Honourable Mention for Best Opinion Writing.[6]

In September 2017 she reported on the desperate situation of Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar.[7]

Approximately half a year into the COVID-19 global pandemic, on June 22, 2020, Beech likened Rambutan to coronavirus: “With its crimson skin studded with green feelers, the egg-sized fruit bears more than a passing resemblance to a coronavirus.” [8]

"Crash in Ethiopia" earned Beech the 2020 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News.[9]

Beech is married to journalist and author and freelance reporter Brook Larmer, and they have two sons.

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Articles
  • Beech, Hannah (April 20, 2015). With reporting by Truong Uyen Ly. "Vietnam looks forward". World. Time (South Pacific ed.). 185 (14): 28–35.

References
  1. Hannah Beech articles
  2. Michael Elliot (June 19, 2008). "Serious Fun". Time. Retrieved February 16, 2010.("Hannah Beech, our Southeast Asia bureau chief, spent part of her childhood in the suburbs of Washington, D.C...)"
  3. What can you do with a Colby degree?, Colby College, Retrieved February 16, 2010
  4. Hannah K. Beech, Meet Our Scholars, The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, Retrieved February 16, 2010
  5. 2009 Award Winners, SOPA Awards, Retrieved February 16, 2010
  6. 2007 Award Winners, SOPA Awards, Retrieved February 16, 2010
  7. Beech, Hannah (2017-09-02). "Desperate Rohingya Flee Myanmar on Trail of Suffering: 'It Is All Gone'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  8. Eating Thai Fruit Demands Serious Effort but Delivers Sublime Reward, The New York Times, Retrieved June 22, 2020
  9. Trounson, Rebecca (November 13, 2020). "Anderson School of Management announces 2020 Loeb Award winners in business journalism" (Press release). UCLA Anderson School of Management. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
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