Fetisov Journalism Awards 2023

First Prize

Category: Outstanding Investigative Reporting

Hannah Dreier

Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.

Hannah Dreier is an investigative reporter for The New York Times. She has spent the past two years reporting on migrant child labor abuses. Before joining The Times in 2022, she wrote about immigration policy, federal disaster aid and police reform at The Washington Post. She previously worked at ProPublica and was a correspondent for the Associated Press in Venezuela. Her reporting has led to nationwide policy changes and the passage of new laws. She won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for stories about a botched crackdown on the gang MS-13.

Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.

The New York Times

February 25th, 2023

The original publication is available via the following link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html