Ken Armstrong is a senior investigative reporter at

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. He has worked at

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, the ''

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'', ''

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'', the ''

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'', and the '' Anchorage Times''. He was a 2001

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at Harvard University, and in 2002, was the McGraw Professor of Writing at

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. He is married to Ramona Hattendorf; they live in

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with their two children, Waters (Emmett) and Meghan.

Awards

* 2016

Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting The Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting has been presented since 1998, for a distinguished example of explanatory reporting that illuminates a significant and complex subject, demonstrating mastery of the subject, lucid writing and clear p ...

(with T. Christian Miller) * 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting (with Michael J. Berens) * 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

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* 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,

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Armstrong, Ken 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