Bloomberg’s Robert Blau and Otis Bilodeau sent the following note to staff on Monday:
We’ve long admired Ken Armstrong for the depth of his reporting and the inventiveness of his storytelling. He’s investigated a broad range of topics, from criminal justice to college sports. He’s mastered narrative across multiple platforms — newspapers, magazines, books, radio — and helped convert his work to the screen. And in a few weeks he’ll be joining us — starting on June 3, and based in Seattle.
Ken will report and edit stories as a player-coach, work with reporters to develop investigations, and spread the art (and sweat equity) of longform narrative in the newsroom.
He’s worked in news organizations of all shapes and sizes, most recently at ProPublica. The 2022 story he co-authored with Raquel Rutledge, The Landlord and the Tenant, won the National Magazine Award for feature writing. His reporting with Meribah Knight on the…


