Eliza Fawcett is a reporting fellow for The New York Times covering national news.
She has previously reported for the Hartford Courant, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She graduated from Yale University, where she majored in History.
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Selected Clips
Violent Threats to Election Workers Are Common. Prosecutions Are Not.
June 27, 2022 / National / New York Times
Synagogue Sues Florida, Saying Abortion Restrictions Violate Religious Freedoms
June 16, 2022 / National / New York Times
A Connecticut middle schooler needed psychiatric care. More than a year later, his mother is still struggling to get all he needs.
Mar. 13, 2022 / Mental health / Hartford Courant
‘This will all be underwater’: As climate change arrives in Connecticut, coastal towns like Groton face a precarious future of rising sea levels and intensifying storms
Nov. 4, 2021 / Environment / Hartford Courant
The number of children seeking urgent behavioral health care at Connecticut Children’s has tripled since the summer, forcing families to wait hours on end for an emergency department bed
Oct. 6, 2021 / Mental health / Hartford Courant
Devastated North End community holds vigil for 19-year-old Makhi Buckly, fatally shot Memorial Day
Jun. 5, 2021 / Connecticut / Hartford Courant
A fight over building apartments in mainly white Woodbridge has become a flashpoint in the debate over racial equity in Connecticut
Apr. 30, 2021 / Connecticut / Hartford Courant
She contracted COVID-19 just before becoming eligible for the vaccine and died weeks later. As Connecticut reaches 8,000 deaths, the unbearable sorrow of the pandemic persists
Apr. 19, 2021 / COVID-19 / Hartford Courant
‘Patients who wouldn’t get it any other way’: The slow, quiet effort to give homebound Connecticut residents the COVID-19 vaccine
Mar. 8, 2021 / COVID-19 / Hartford Courant
COVID-19 long-haulers struggle with persistent mental health issues: brain fog, anxiety, depression and sleep disorders
Feb. 5 2021 / COVID-19 / Hartford Courant
Inside the U.S. Capitol: Connecticut lawmakers evacuated as pro-Trump insurgents storm building
Jan. 6, 2021 / Politics / Hartford Courant
‘I can’t mandate common sense:’ Should appeals to personal responsibility guide Connecticut’s pandemic response?
Dec. 13, 2020 / COVID-19 / Hartford Courant
On the front lines fighting the coronavirus: Connecticut doctors and nurses battle death and despair
May 8, 2020 / COVID-19 / Hartford Courant
With COVID-19 threat looming, state prisons and jails are on edge
Mar. 28, 2020 / COVID-19 / Hartford Courant
Angry, hostile responses to the resurgent Black Lives Matter movement are exposing the intensity of Connecticut’s racial divide
Aug. 9, 2020 / Connecticut / Hartford Courant
In Killingly, a debate over the high school mascot leads to a political reckoning
Dec. 1, 2019 / Politics / Hartford Courant
20 deadly overdoses in 5 years at 2 West Side hotels. Why it’s so hard to tackle a few blocks of the opioid crisis
Oct. 21, 2019 / Opioid crisis / Chicago Tribune
Trump’s school safety commission would prefer if you didn’t talk about gun control
Aug. 7, 2018 / Politics / Los Angeles Times
Prosecutors say Manafort thought ‘the law did not apply to him,’ as the trial of Trump’s former campaign chairman begins
July 31, 2018 / Politics / Los Angeles Times
Sparring with House Republicans, FBI’s Peter Strzok denies anti-Trump texts affected his work
July 12, 2018 / Politics / Los Angeles Times
In the heart of Appalachia’s opioid epidemic, a sliver of hope
July 30, 2017 / Opioid crisis / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Trump takes potshots at political foes at Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia
July 24, 2017 / Politics / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
On the Doorstep—In New Haven, eviction feeds into a cycle of poverty that’s hard to escape.
Sep. 18, 2018 / Housing / The New Journal
A Fragile Sanctuary—The walls of a New Haven church protect Marco Antonio Reyes Alvarez from deportation. No one knows for how long.
Nov. 17, 2017 / Immigration / The New Journal