Hi! I'm Eliza Fawcett, a journalist based in Brooklyn, NY.

I've reported for The New York Times as a fellow on the National desk, and the Hartford Courant, where I covered Covid–19 and mental health.

My work has also appeared in New York Focus, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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Selected Clips

Pro-Palestinian Rally Becomes Mass Subway Ride to Confront Kathy Hochul

Feb. 29, 2024

Metro

The New York Times

Be a Jail Watchdog

Feb. 23, 2024

Criminal Justice

New York Focus

Hochul’s Plan to Close Prisons Faces a Fight

Feb. 20, 2024

Criminal Justice

New York Focus

This Agency Is Supposed to Monitor Jails. Is Anyone Monitoring It?

Dec. 18, 2023

Criminal Justice

New York Focus

‘A Waste of Time’: Inside New York’s Broken Jail Accountability System

Dec. 4, 2023

Criminal Justice

New York Focus

How County Jails Sidestep Solitary Confinement Law

Nov. 22, 2023

Criminal Justice

New York Focus

There’s No Ocean in Sight. But Many Hawaiians Make Las Vegas Their Home.

May 20, 2023

Housing

The New York Times

Outrage at G.O.P. Could Propel Expelled Democrats Right Back to House

Apr. 7, 2023

Politics

The New York Times

Tennessee G.O.P. Punishes 2 Democrats by Throwing Them Out of House

Apr. 6, 2023

Politics

The New York Times

A Place of Sanctuary Is Punctured by the Reality of Gun Violence in America

Mar. 28, 2023

National

The New York Times

Memphis, Through the Lens of Tyre Nichols

Mar. 2, 2023

National

The New York Times

The College Board Strips Down Its A.P. Curriculum for African American Studies

Feb. 1, 2023

Education

The New York Times

Amid a Plague of Shootings, Bystanders Become Heroes

Jan. 25, 2023

National

The New York Times

After Arkansas Trial, Judge Weighs Legality of Ban on Care for Transgender Youth

Dec. 4, 2022

National

The New York Times

‘We Were a Family’: Victims in Walmart Shooting Had Bonded on Overnight Shift

Nov. 24, 2022

National

The New York Times

Colorado Springs Mourns the Loss of Five Lives and a Haven

Nov. 22, 2022

National

The New York Times

From Yale Law to Oath Keepers: Stewart Rhodes’s Unlikely Journey

Nov. 21, 2022

National

The New York Times

The Pandemic Generation Goes to College. It Has Not Been Easy.

Nov. 1, 2022

Education

The New York Times

Meet Me Downtown: Hartford, Conn.

Oct. 26, 2022

National

The New York Times

Vulnerable and Trapped: A Look at Those Lost in Hurricane Ian

Oct. 21, 2022

Climate

The New York Times

How Bad Is the Teacher Shortage? Depends Where You Live.

Aug. 29, 2022

Education

The 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

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

Climate

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

Health

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

Housing

Hartford Courant

COVID-19 long-haulers struggle with persistent Mental Health issues: brain fog, anxiety, depression and sleep disorders

Feb. 5, 2021

Health

Hartford Courant

On the front lines fighting the coronavirus: Connecticut doctors and nurses battle death and despair

May 8, 2020

Health

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

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

Health

Chicago Tribune

Trump’s school safety commission would prefer if you didn’t talk about gun control

Aug. 7, 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

Health

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Trump takes potshots at political foes at Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia

July 24, 2017

Politics

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette