Ken Armstrong is a journalist who specializes in investigative reporting and narrative writing.
At the Seattle Times he won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and shared in the Pulitzer for breaking news, awarded to the newspaper’s staff for its coverage of the shooting deaths of four police officers. At the Chicago Tribune he co-wrote a five-part series on the death penalty that helped prompt the Illinois governor to declare a moratorium on executions and later to empty Death Row.
Armstrong has been the McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. In 2009 he received the John Chancellor Award from Columbia University for lifetime achievement. He is co-author of the book “Scoreboard, Baby,” winner of the Edgar Award for non-fiction.
A graduate of Purdue, Armstrong lives in Seattle with his wife, Ramona Hattendorf, and their two children, Emmett and Meghan.