with Andrea Elliott on Feb 5, 2010
with Andrea Elliott and Reda Shata on Jul 3, 2007
Andrea Elliott is an investigative reporter for The New York Times. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her series “An Imam in America,” which chronicled the life of an immigrant Muslim leader in Brooklyn.
Ms. Elliott joined The Times in 2003 as a metropolitan reporter. From 2005 to 2007, she covered Islam in America, a beat she created which focused on the impact of 9/11 on the lives of American Muslims. Her other projects have included a series on Muslims in the military, an examination of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, a special report for The New York Times Magazine on the lives of Moroccan suicide bombers and an investigation in 2009 into how more than 20 Somali-Americans joined the jihad in Somalia.
Ms. Elliott has received awards from the Overseas Press Club, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists and the New York Press Club, among other journalistic honors. In 2008, she was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. Her work was featured in Best Newspaper Writing of 2007.
Before joining The Times, Ms. Elliott worked as a reporter at The Miami Herald. She earned a B.A. degree in comparative literature from Occidental College in 1996, and an M.S. degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1999, graduating first in her class.
