About 20,000 children are homeless in New York City – a statistic that moved journalist Andrea Elliott into action on a project for The New York Times.
“With poverty stories, it’s easy to go into the politics of blame, and there are important questions about responsibility,” she said. “But those questions fade into the background when children are the focus.
“Children are unwitting passengers in a voyage they didn’t choose. They have little clout and are voiceless.”
Her five-part series, ‘Invisible Child’, was 15 months in the making. This story of a homeless girl in Brooklyn is the largest investigative project that the Times has run at once.