American journalist
Ken Armstrong is a senior investigative reporter at ProPublica .
He has worked at The Marshall Project , the Chicago Tribune , The Seattle Times , the Newport News Daily Press , and the Anchorage Times .
He was a 2001 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University,[1] 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 Skye.
Awards for Ken Armstrong
Awards for Ken Armstrong
Previously the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism from 1985–1997
1985–2000 2000–2025
Eric Newhouse (2000)
Staff of the Chicago Tribune (2001)
Staff of The New York Times (2002)
Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2003)
Kevin Helliker & Thomas M. Burton (2004)
Gareth Cook (2005)
David Finkel (2006)
Kenneth R. Weiss , Usha Lee McFarling & Rick Loomis (2007)
Amy Harmon (2008)
Bettina Boxall & Julie Cart (2009)
Michael Moss & Staff of The New York Times (2010)
Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher , Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar & Alison Sherwood (2011)
David Kocieniewski (2012)
Staff of The New York Times including David Barboza , Charles Duhigg , David Kocieniewski , Steve Lohr, John Markoff , David Segal , David Streitfeld , Hiroko Tabuchi & Bill Vlasic (2013)
Eli Saslow (2014)
Zachary R. Mider (2015)
T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong (2016)
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , McClatchy & Miami Herald (2017)
Staff of The Arizona Republic & Staff of USA Today Network (2018)
David Barstow , Susanne Craig & Russ Buettne (2019)
Staff of The Washington Post (2020)
Ed Yong (2021)
Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell and Jackie Botts (2021)
Natalie Wolchover & Staff of Quanta Magazine (2022)
Caitlin Dickerson (2023)
Previously the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, No Edition Time from 1953–1963 and the Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting from 1964–1984
1953–1975 1976–2000
Chicago Tribune (1976)
Acel Moore & Wendell Rawls Jr. (1977)
Anthony R. Dolan (1978)
Gilbert M. Gaul & Elliot G. Jaspin (1979)
Stephen Kurkjian , Alexander B. Hawes Jr., Nils Bruzelius, Joan Vennochi & Robert M. Porterfield (1980)
Clark Hallas & Robert B. Lowe (1981)
Paul Henderson (1982)
Loretta Tofani (1983)
Kenneth Cooper, Joan Fitz Gerald, Jonathan Kaufman , Norman Lockman, Gary McMillan, Kirk Scharfenberg & David Wessel (1984)
Lucy Morgan , Jack Reed & William K. Marimow (1985)
Jeffrey A. Marx & Michael M. York (1986)
Daniel R. Biddle, H.G. Bissinger , Fredric N. Tulsky & John Woestendiek (1987)
Dean Baquet , William C. Gaines & Ann Marie Lipinski (19)
Bill Dedman (1989)
Lou Kilzer (1990)
Joseph T. Hallinan & Susan M. Headden (1991)
Lorraine Adams & Dan Malone (1992)
Jeff Brazil & Steve Berry (1993)
Providence Journal-Bulletin (1994)
Stephanie Saul & Brian Donovan (1995)
The Orange County Register (1996)
Eric Nalder , Deborah Nelson & Alex Tizon (1997)
Gary Cohn & Will Englund (1998)
Miami Herald (1999)
Sang-Hun Choe , Charles J. Hanley & Martha Mendoza (2000)
2001–2025
David Willman (2001)
Sari Horwitz , Scott Higham & Sarah Cohen (2002)
Clifford J. Levy (2003)
Michael D. Sallah , Joe Mahr & Mitch Weiss (2004)
Nigel Jaquiss (2005)
Susan Schmidt , James V. Grimaldi & R. Jeffrey Smith (2006)
Brett Blackledge (2007)
Walt Bogdanich , Jake Hooker & Chicago Tribune (2008)
David Barstow (2009)
Barbara Laker , Wendy Ruderman & Sheri Fink (2010)
Paige St. John (2011)
Matt Apuzzo , Adam Goldman , Eileen Sullivan , Chris Hawley, Michael J. Berens & Ken Armstrong (2012)
David Barstow & Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab (2013)
Chris Hamby (2014)
Eric Lipton & The Wall Street Journal (2015)
Leonora LaPeter Anton , Anthony Cormier , Michael Braga & Esther Htusan (2016)
Eric Eyre (2017)
The Washington Post (2018)
Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan & Paul Pringle (2019)
Brian Rosenthal (2020)
Matt Rocheleau, Vernal Coleman, Laura Crimaldi, Evan Allen & Brendan McCarthy (2021)
Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington & Eli Murray (2022)
Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2023)
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