Ken Armstrong is a senior investigative reporter at
ProPublica.
He has worked at
The Marshall Project
The Marshall Project is a nonprofit, online journalism organization focusing on issues related to criminal justice in the United States. It was founded by former hedge fund manager Neil Barsky with former '' New York Times'' executive editor B ...
, the ''
Chicago Tribune'', ''
The Seattle Times'', the ''
Newport News Daily Press'', and the ''
Anchorage Times
The ''Anchorage Times'' was a daily newspaper published in Anchorage, Alaska, that became known for the pro-business political stance of longtime publisher and editor, Robert Atwood. Competition from the McClatchy-owned ''Anchorage Daily News'' ...
''.
He was a 2001
Nieman Fellow at Harvard University,
and in 2002, was the McGraw Professor of Writing at
Princeton University.
He is married to Ramona Hattendorf; they live in
Seattle with their two children, Waters (Emmett) and Meghan.
Awards
* 2016
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting (with
T. Christian Miller)
* 2012
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded since 1953, under one name or another, for a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series in a U.S. news publicat ...
(with
Michael J. Berens
Michael J. Berens is an American investigative reporter. He won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.
Life and career
Berens began his journalism career as a copy boy for The Columbus Dispatch in 1981 while attending Ohio State Un ...
)
* Shared in Pulitzer Prize for breaking news (2010, 2015)
* 2011 Edgar Award for non-fiction
* 2010 Michael Kelly Award
* 2009
John Chancellor Award Winner
* 2004 Excellence in Legal Journalism Award
* 1999; 2008; 2014; 2015
George Polk Award
* Investigative Reporters and Editors Award six times
* Pulitzer Prize finalist, four times
Works
* (with
T. Christian Miller)
* ''Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity'', Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry, UNP, Bison Original, 2010,
* "'Until I Can Be Sure': How the Threat of Executing the Innocent has Transformed the Death Penalty Debate"
"'Until I Can Be Sure': How the Threat of Executing the Innocent has Transformed the Death Penalty Debate"
''Beyond repair?: America's death penalty'', Editor Stephen P. Garvey, Duke University Press, 2003,
References
External links
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American male journalists
Princeton University faculty
George Polk Award recipients
Living people
Nieman Fellows
Year of birth missing (living people)
The Seattle Times people
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winners
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism winners