Hannah Beech

Hannah Beech
Photograph of Hannah Beach at the World Economic Forum on East Asia in 2012
Hannah Beech at the World Economic Forum on East Asia in 2012
OccupationJournalist

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]

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] Beech and eleven other journalists from The New York Times shared the 2020 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News for their article, "Crash in Ethiopia".[7]

  1. ^ Hannah Beech articles
  2. ^ Elliot, Michael (June 19, 2008). "Serious Fun". Time. Archived from the original on June 20, 2008. 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[permanent dead link], 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. ^ 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.