Ken Armstrong

Ken Armstrong is a reporter at ProPublica. In 2022, his story with Raquel Rutledge on the intersecting lives of a landlord and a tenant won the National Magazine Award for feature writing. In 2021, he reported with Meribah Knight on a Tennessee county where hundreds of children were illegally jailed. In 2018, his reporting with Christian Sheckler on the criminal justice system in Elkhart, Indiana, led to the police chief’s resignation and to two officers being convicted of felony civil rights charges.

In his career, Armstrong has won or shared in four Pulitzer Prizes. On five other occasions he was a Pulitzer finalist