Andrea Elliott Returns to The Times

We're thrilled to be able to report that Andrea Elliott has come back home to The Times.

Andrea is one of the finest practitioners anywhere of the investigative narrative - mastery that she amply demonstrated in her first run at the paper, from 2003 to 2014. She won her first Pulitzer in 2007, for her series about an immigrant imam in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, navigating the intricacies of post-9/11 America. That project was a triumph of the sort of immersive reporting that would then take Andrea deep - more than a year deep - into the world of a homeless child named Dasani Coates. Her series won a Polk and a raft of other awards and became the seed of the book project that took her away from the paper, until now. In 2022, it won the Pulitzer for general nonfiction.

There is a theme here, encapsulated in the title of that series and subsequent book, "Invisible Child." Andrea is an utterly relentless and meticulous reporter and a beautiful writer. But it all comes in service to her commitment to reveal the lives that we see but don't really see - lives often enmeshed in the groaning bureaucracies of social welfare. She aims to turn that generous eye to a range of targets when she returns.

Since we know Andrea well, we'll skip over the obligatory bio. She started in investigations this week. We couldn't be more pleased.