Ken Armstrong
@bykenarmstrong.bsky.social
Reporter/editor/narrative coach @Bloomberg.com. Co-author, Unbelievable. Law school dropout/honorary doctor. Formers: ProPublica, Marshall Project, Seattle Times. Perturbable.
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A pending story about a Philadelphia police officer stood a good chance of getting the Daily News sued, the newspaper's lawyer told Days.
Days turned to the reporters.
"He said, ‘I trust my reporters, I believe in my reporters, and we’re running with it.'"
@wendyruderman.bsky.social
Days turned to the reporters.
"He said, ‘I trust my reporters, I believe in my reporters, and we’re running with it.'"
@wendyruderman.bsky.social
Michael Days, a pillar of Philadelphia journalism who championed young Black journalists and was beloved among reporters who worked for him at the Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphia Inquirer, died suddenly on Saturday at the age of 72 in Trenton.
Michael Days, pioneering journalist who led the Philadelphia Daily News during its 2010 Pulitzer Prize win for investigative reporting, has died at 72
Days was a mentor to countless young journalists and was president of the National Association of Black Journalists-Philadelphia.
www.inquirer.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
A pending story about a Philadelphia police officer stood a good chance of getting the Daily News sued, the newspaper's lawyer told Days.
Days turned to the reporters.
"He said, ‘I trust my reporters, I believe in my reporters, and we’re running with it.'"
@wendyruderman.bsky.social
Days turned to the reporters.
"He said, ‘I trust my reporters, I believe in my reporters, and we’re running with it.'"
@wendyruderman.bsky.social
Fellow journalists: Please spread the word about the True Story Award, which is so much more than a journalism contest.
It honors journalism’s indispensable role in the world and works to strengthen reporters everywhere.
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It honors journalism’s indispensable role in the world and works to strengthen reporters everywhere.
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True Story Award
The Global Reporter Prize in Bern, Switzerland
truestoryaward.org
October 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Fellow journalists: Please spread the word about the True Story Award, which is so much more than a journalism contest.
It honors journalism’s indispensable role in the world and works to strengthen reporters everywhere.
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It honors journalism’s indispensable role in the world and works to strengthen reporters everywhere.
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In 2023, @newyorker.com published Joe Garcia's "Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison," which went viral. This is the sequel. Find out what happened with Garcia's parole and how he managed to get to the last stop in the Eras tour. www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
From Life in Prison to the Eras Tour
While serving time for murder, Joe Garcia heard Taylor Swift’s music and thought of the woman he loved. Last year, they were reunited.
www.newyorker.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
In 2023, @newyorker.com published Joe Garcia's "Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison," which went viral. This is the sequel. Find out what happened with Garcia's parole and how he managed to get to the last stop in the Eras tour. www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
Reposted by Ken Armstrong
A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs
The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours
The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours
KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment
Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.
www.kare11.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs
The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours
The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours
When you assume that 1 a.m. call from an international number is spam, then, when the phone rings again, put it on "do not disturb" and go back to sleep.
She didn’t believe she won the Nobel — until a photographer showed up at her Seattle door
That random number ringing your phone is probably junk — but not always.
www.seattletimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
When you assume that 1 a.m. call from an international number is spam, then, when the phone rings again, put it on "do not disturb" and go back to sleep.
This remembrance of Susy Carroll, a great investigative journalist, by Lise Olsen, another great investigative journalist, says so much about the people who do this work.
I miss Susy, and I'm grateful to Lise for finding such a fitting way to honor her work & memory.
@liseolsen.bsky.social @ire.org
I miss Susy, and I'm grateful to Lise for finding such a fitting way to honor her work & memory.
@liseolsen.bsky.social @ire.org
Honoring longtime IRE member and mentor Susan Carroll - Investigative Reporters & Editors
Lise Olsen writes about her friend and late IRE member Susan Carroll — and how a new fellowship program aims to honor her legacy.
www.ire.org
September 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
This remembrance of Susy Carroll, a great investigative journalist, by Lise Olsen, another great investigative journalist, says so much about the people who do this work.
I miss Susy, and I'm grateful to Lise for finding such a fitting way to honor her work & memory.
@liseolsen.bsky.social @ire.org
I miss Susy, and I'm grateful to Lise for finding such a fitting way to honor her work & memory.
@liseolsen.bsky.social @ire.org
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EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role
FREE to read
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
FREE to read
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
![“Question,” Epstein wrote to Maxwell on May 23, 2008. “Which one do you prefer,,, lewd and lscivious conduct ,, or procuring minors for prostituion.”
At the time, he and his star-studded team of defense lawyers were closing in on a generous plea deal with federal and state officials in Florida, and Epstein was trying to negotiate the state charges to which he’d plead guilty. Maxwell’s response was matter-of-fact:
From: gmax <gmax[REDACTED]>
To: J. Epstein <jeeproject@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, May 23 2008 3:22 PM
Subject: Re:
I suppose Lewd and lecivious conduct..I would prefer lewd and lescivious conduct w/a prositute if possible](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eeitvtxcbjt3vmljqfmwzahz/bafkreidw4qmdfvf3j7jmvtgppacjdnk4ffdvzipnd4sgxqx7kpkwirqmaq@jpeg)
September 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role
FREE to read
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
FREE to read
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Philip Gourevitch looks back on a 9/11 photo taken by Gilles Peress:
"We see them standing in that ashen pall, like the last survivors of a lost time..."
"There it is: ashes to ashes, dust to dust, no metaphors."
@pgourevitch.bsky.social @newyorker.com
"We see them standing in that ashen pall, like the last survivors of a lost time..."
"There it is: ashes to ashes, dust to dust, no metaphors."
@pgourevitch.bsky.social @newyorker.com
Philip Gourevitch on Gilles Peress’s Photo from September 11th
Peress reached the World Trade Center just as the second tower collapsed.
www.newyorker.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Philip Gourevitch looks back on a 9/11 photo taken by Gilles Peress:
"We see them standing in that ashen pall, like the last survivors of a lost time..."
"There it is: ashes to ashes, dust to dust, no metaphors."
@pgourevitch.bsky.social @newyorker.com
"We see them standing in that ashen pall, like the last survivors of a lost time..."
"There it is: ashes to ashes, dust to dust, no metaphors."
@pgourevitch.bsky.social @newyorker.com
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EXCLUSIVE: @bloomberg.com has obtained more than 100 previously undisclosed emails between UK Ambassador Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein from 2005 through 2010 that reveal Mandelson's steadfast support for Epstein after Epstein was charged with sex crimes
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
UK Ambassador Told Epstein ‘I Think the World of You,’ Emails Reveal
Peter Mandelson, the prominent Labour politician who was named British ambassador to the US this year, expressed steadfast support and offered to discuss Epstein’s now-infamous 2008 case with his cont...
www.bloomberg.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
EXCLUSIVE: @bloomberg.com has obtained more than 100 previously undisclosed emails between UK Ambassador Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein from 2005 through 2010 that reveal Mandelson's steadfast support for Epstein after Epstein was charged with sex crimes
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Such a breathtaking confluence of societal failures in this Hannah Dreier story. You've got crippling healthcare costs, lack of worker protections, worsening climate-fueled wildfires, poverty, lack of opportunity for young men... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
‘If I Live to 25, I’ve Lived a Good Life’
www.nytimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Such a breathtaking confluence of societal failures in this Hannah Dreier story. You've got crippling healthcare costs, lack of worker protections, worsening climate-fueled wildfires, poverty, lack of opportunity for young men... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
Top three stories on @propublica.org right now
August 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Top three stories on @propublica.org right now
“I can see how this looks strange,” Greco's attorney said.
Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.
www.thecity.nyc
August 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
“I can see how this looks strange,” Greco's attorney said.
I love reading how writers edit themselves, so to read how E.B. White revised and revised to write this, "a single perfect paragraph," is delightful. (Also? I had no idea that anyone had ever been labeled a "paragrapher.")
@nathanheller.bsky.social @newyorker.com
link.newyorker.com/view/5be9f03...
@nathanheller.bsky.social @newyorker.com
link.newyorker.com/view/5be9f03...
August 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I love reading how writers edit themselves, so to read how E.B. White revised and revised to write this, "a single perfect paragraph," is delightful. (Also? I had no idea that anyone had ever been labeled a "paragrapher.")
@nathanheller.bsky.social @newyorker.com
link.newyorker.com/view/5be9f03...
@nathanheller.bsky.social @newyorker.com
link.newyorker.com/view/5be9f03...
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Larry Richardson appeared to be an early-career mathematician with potential, racking up more than 130 citations in 4 years.
It would all be rather remarkable—if the studies weren’t complete gibberish. And if Larry wasn’t a cat. #InternationalCatDay scim.ag/4lg3wTp
It would all be rather remarkable—if the studies weren’t complete gibberish. And if Larry wasn’t a cat. #InternationalCatDay scim.ag/4lg3wTp
How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat
“Exercise in absurdity” reveals flaws in Google Scholar’s productivity metrics
scim.ag
August 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Larry Richardson appeared to be an early-career mathematician with potential, racking up more than 130 citations in 4 years.
It would all be rather remarkable—if the studies weren’t complete gibberish. And if Larry wasn’t a cat. #InternationalCatDay scim.ag/4lg3wTp
It would all be rather remarkable—if the studies weren’t complete gibberish. And if Larry wasn’t a cat. #InternationalCatDay scim.ag/4lg3wTp
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Just folded everything.
Kid went to camp with 12 PAIRS of socks.
Came home with 3.
Not three pairs. Three. Total. 1.5 pairs. But all three mismatched.
I almost admire the skill, given that he never does this intentionally.
That’s talent. Unmarketable, but a talent.,
Kid went to camp with 12 PAIRS of socks.
Came home with 3.
Not three pairs. Three. Total. 1.5 pairs. But all three mismatched.
I almost admire the skill, given that he never does this intentionally.
That’s talent. Unmarketable, but a talent.,
How does a kid come back from a three-week sleep-away camp with literally HALF the clothes we sent him with?
And then seems genuinely puzzled when you ask where they ended up?
And then seems genuinely puzzled when you ask where they ended up?
August 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Just folded everything.
Kid went to camp with 12 PAIRS of socks.
Came home with 3.
Not three pairs. Three. Total. 1.5 pairs. But all three mismatched.
I almost admire the skill, given that he never does this intentionally.
That’s talent. Unmarketable, but a talent.,
Kid went to camp with 12 PAIRS of socks.
Came home with 3.
Not three pairs. Three. Total. 1.5 pairs. But all three mismatched.
I almost admire the skill, given that he never does this intentionally.
That’s talent. Unmarketable, but a talent.,
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Unlike the NFL, NBA and MLB, a few NHL teams are intimately involved in running the youth levels of their sport.
In Dallas, the Stars spent decades turning youth hockey into a vehicle for profit, bullying families in the process.
New investigative reporting:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
In Dallas, the Stars spent decades turning youth hockey into a vehicle for profit, bullying families in the process.
New investigative reporting:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
‘They control everything’: How the Dallas Stars monopolized Texas youth hockey
Ice is power in the lucrative world of youth hockey. In North Texas, the Dallas Stars hold almost all of it.
www.usatoday.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Unlike the NFL, NBA and MLB, a few NHL teams are intimately involved in running the youth levels of their sport.
In Dallas, the Stars spent decades turning youth hockey into a vehicle for profit, bullying families in the process.
New investigative reporting:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
In Dallas, the Stars spent decades turning youth hockey into a vehicle for profit, bullying families in the process.
New investigative reporting:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
What would the "exploitation phase" of AI-driven airfare pricing look like?
"Taking a relatively simple pricing structure and replacing it with a head-spinningly complex one, featuring many more fare classes with prices that swing wildly from one moment to the next."
"Taking a relatively simple pricing structure and replacing it with a head-spinningly complex one, featuring many more fare classes with prices that swing wildly from one moment to the next."
Get ready for the “exploitation phase” of AI driven pricing www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Flight Pricing Can Push Travelers to the Limit of Their Ability to Pay
Airlines, including Delta, are testing artificial intelligence in pricing. Get ready for what one startup calls the “exploitation phase.”
www.bloomberg.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
What would the "exploitation phase" of AI-driven airfare pricing look like?
"Taking a relatively simple pricing structure and replacing it with a head-spinningly complex one, featuring many more fare classes with prices that swing wildly from one moment to the next."
"Taking a relatively simple pricing structure and replacing it with a head-spinningly complex one, featuring many more fare classes with prices that swing wildly from one moment to the next."
"Hiroshima," published in 1946, changed journalism, Jane Mayer writes.
It "was a model of what might be called the ethical exposé. It was built on rigorous reporting and meticulously observed details, and, through its quiet, almost affectless voice, the reader became another eyewitness."
It "was a model of what might be called the ethical exposé. It was built on rigorous reporting and meticulously observed details, and, through its quiet, almost affectless voice, the reader became another eyewitness."
Jane Mayer on John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”
His monumental report changed history, journalism, and me.
www.newyorker.com
August 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"Hiroshima," published in 1946, changed journalism, Jane Mayer writes.
It "was a model of what might be called the ethical exposé. It was built on rigorous reporting and meticulously observed details, and, through its quiet, almost affectless voice, the reader became another eyewitness."
It "was a model of what might be called the ethical exposé. It was built on rigorous reporting and meticulously observed details, and, through its quiet, almost affectless voice, the reader became another eyewitness."
Thank you, @thesundaylongread.bsky.social, for making this @bloomberg.com @businessweek.bsky.social story a top pick for the week.
And congratulations on your 500th edition!
(Story by Susan Berfield, @margimurphy.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social)
And congratulations on your 500th edition!
(Story by Susan Berfield, @margimurphy.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social)
Yes, the future of the United States government was very much influenced by the decisions of a 23-year-old from Lincoln, Nebraska. But there is much more to the Luke Farritor story. One of @jacobfeldman.bsky.social & @dvnjr.bsky.social's top picks via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Portrait of a Young DOGE Coder Dismantling America’s Institutions
Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dism...
www.bloomberg.com
August 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thank you, @thesundaylongread.bsky.social, for making this @bloomberg.com @businessweek.bsky.social story a top pick for the week.
And congratulations on your 500th edition!
(Story by Susan Berfield, @margimurphy.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social)
And congratulations on your 500th edition!
(Story by Susan Berfield, @margimurphy.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social)
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NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files
The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....
www.bloomberg.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
If you hit a paywall, here's a gift link for this @bloomberg.com @businessweek.bsky.social story:
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
July 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
If you hit a paywall, here's a gift link for this @bloomberg.com @businessweek.bsky.social story:
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Reposted by Ken Armstrong
NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled
The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster”
NO PAYWALL!
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster”
NO PAYWALL!
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
July 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled
The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster”
NO PAYWALL!
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster”
NO PAYWALL!
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
DHS Sec. Kristi Noem directed FEMA to prepare a memo on how to abolish itself & create a re-branded org.
When the memo came back, it proposed 4 possible new names, including ... National Office of Emergency Management, or NOEM.
@zhirji.bsky.social
@jasonleopold.bsky.social
@laurenthal.bsky.social
When the memo came back, it proposed 4 possible new names, including ... National Office of Emergency Management, or NOEM.
@zhirji.bsky.social
@jasonleopold.bsky.social
@laurenthal.bsky.social
‘Abolishing FEMA’ Memo Outlines Ways for Trump to Scrap Agency
In a newly revealed March memo, officials proposed ways to dramatically curtail the US government’s disaster response role, such as by ending aid for smaller disasters and cutting housing funds for su...
www.bloomberg.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
DHS Sec. Kristi Noem directed FEMA to prepare a memo on how to abolish itself & create a re-branded org.
When the memo came back, it proposed 4 possible new names, including ... National Office of Emergency Management, or NOEM.
@zhirji.bsky.social
@jasonleopold.bsky.social
@laurenthal.bsky.social
When the memo came back, it proposed 4 possible new names, including ... National Office of Emergency Management, or NOEM.
@zhirji.bsky.social
@jasonleopold.bsky.social
@laurenthal.bsky.social
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The new @lastweektonight.com piece on juvenile incarceration featured several @ProPublica stories.
First up was our 2021 investigation with @wpln.bsky.social about young Black kids in Tennessee jailed for a crime that doesn't exist:
www.propublica.org/article/blac...
First up was our 2021 investigation with @wpln.bsky.social about young Black kids in Tennessee jailed for a crime that doesn't exist:
www.propublica.org/article/blac...
June 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The new @lastweektonight.com piece on juvenile incarceration featured several @ProPublica stories.
First up was our 2021 investigation with @wpln.bsky.social about young Black kids in Tennessee jailed for a crime that doesn't exist:
www.propublica.org/article/blac...
First up was our 2021 investigation with @wpln.bsky.social about young Black kids in Tennessee jailed for a crime that doesn't exist:
www.propublica.org/article/blac...
Thank you, @lastweektonight.com, for highlighting this @wpln.bsky.social @propublica.org story on tonight's show on juvenile justice.
And yes, these children were jailed on a charge that is not an actual charge. That was just one of the ways in which the system broke down.
For link to the story ⬇️
And yes, these children were jailed on a charge that is not an actual charge. That was just one of the ways in which the system broke down.
For link to the story ⬇️
June 16, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Thank you, @lastweektonight.com, for highlighting this @wpln.bsky.social @propublica.org story on tonight's show on juvenile justice.
And yes, these children were jailed on a charge that is not an actual charge. That was just one of the ways in which the system broke down.
For link to the story ⬇️
And yes, these children were jailed on a charge that is not an actual charge. That was just one of the ways in which the system broke down.
For link to the story ⬇️