Hannah Beech

Hannah Beech at the World Economic Forum on East Asia in 2012

Hannah Beech is a journalist for TIME Magazine.[1] She specializes in Asia, and is sometimes credited as TIME's Southeast Asia bureau chief.[2] As of August 2017, she will be Southeast Asia Bureau Chief for the New York Times based in Bangkok. In September 2017 she reported on the desperate situation of Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar.[3]

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.[4] She also received a 2007 Honourable Mention for Best Opinion Writing.[5]

Beech graduated in 1995 from Colby College. She did undergraduate internships at U.S. News & World Report and Asian media outlets.[6] She was the 1994 recipient of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship for Maryland.[7]

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

Bibliography

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 (magazine). Retrieved February 16, 2010. ("Hannah Beech, our Southeast Asia bureau chief, spent part of her childhood in the suburbs of Washington, D.C...)"
  3. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/world/asia/rohingya-myanmar-bangladesh-refugees-massacre.html
  4. 2009 Award Winners, SOPA Awards, Retrieved February 16, 2010
  5. 2007 Award Winners, SOPA Awards, Retrieved February 16, 2010
  6. What can you do with a Colby degree?, Colby College, Retrieved February 16, 2010
  7. Hannah K. Beech, Meet Our Scholars, The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, Retrieved February 16, 2010



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