Reporter/editor/narrative coach @Bloomberg.com. Co-author, Unbelievable. Law school dropout/honorary doctor. Formers: ProPublica, Marshall Project, Seattle Times. Perturbable. https://kenarmstrongwriter.com/https://bsky.app/profile/bykenarmstrong.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/bykenarmstrong.bsky.social/post/3msby4blk6k22If you read only one story today, please make it this one. Paywall is lifted. So is the registration wall. By Olivia Carville for @bloomberg.com @businessweek.bsky.social https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-04/confidential-tiktok-report-shows-algorithm-safety-feature-withheld-from-millions?srnd=homepage-americas04 Aug 2026 21:41 +0000at://did:plc:yff5ggkkflt2ajjpe7cdwhyx/app.bsky.feed.post/3msby4blk6k22https://bsky.app/profile/bykenarmstrong.bsky.social/post/3mp3dk4gkok2fA beautifully written obituary -- and there are few tougher assignments than writing an obituary like this. @rogoway.bsky.social @jonathanmbach.bsky.social https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2026/06/zane-sparling-reporter-for-the-oregonianoregonlive-dies-of-cancer-at-33.html25 Jun 2026 02:01 +0000at://did:plc:yff5ggkkflt2ajjpe7cdwhyx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp3dk4gkok2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/bykenarmstrong.bsky.social/post/3mklpirpokc2zNo. 2 story on Seattle Times homepage right now. In Seattle, we take Costco very, very seriously.28 Apr 2026 23:12 +0000at://did:plc:yff5ggkkflt2ajjpe7cdwhyx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mklpirpokc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/bykenarmstrong.bsky.social/post/3mi7yjkjjgk2lOne of my Sunday pleasures is reading @themarshallproject.org's Maurice Chammah (an accomplished musician himself) writing about music made by incarcerated artists. He drops a new song each week in his newsletter, available here: https://www.themarshallproject.org/newsletters/redemption-songs https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/29/prison-band-power-of-attorney-redemption-songs29 Mar 2026 20:31 +0000at://did:plc:yff5ggkkflt2ajjpe7cdwhyx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi7yjkjjgk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/bykenarmstrong.bsky.social/post/3mfsjw77bpk25A stunning story by @craigwelch.bsky.social with an equally striking comment thread, full of people who can relate to Craig, his daughter Edie and her teammates: ▪️"My daughter has your daughter's story verbatim" ▪️"After three of my teammates tore their ACLs in a single week" ▪️"I tore my ACL twice" [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Feb 2026 01:15 +0000at://did:plc:yff5ggkkflt2ajjpe7cdwhyx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfsjw77bpk25https://bsky.app/profile/bykenarmstrong.bsky.social/post/3me3cyajams27Ruth Marcus on today's devastating cuts at the Washington Post: "Today, people in war zones are getting e-mails telling them that their positions have been eliminated. And you know what? I bet they’re gonna file stories, because that’s what we do. It’s what we’ve always done." https://link.newyorker.com/view/5be9f0393f92a404692d0aefq5ooy.f4c9/76d5850605 Feb 2026 02:14 +0000at://did:plc:yff5ggkkflt2ajjpe7cdwhyx/app.bsky.feed.post/3me3cyajams27https://bsky.app/profile/bykenarmstrong.bsky.social/post/3me3bnu5ugc2gA beautiful obituary for an outstanding journalist. And this passage is everything: "Talton dreamed long ago of being a history professor. ... [But] an adviser told him that he wrote too clearly to be published academically. A journalism career quickly followed..." [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Feb 2026 01:51 +0000at://did:plc:yff5ggkkflt2ajjpe7cdwhyx/app.bsky.feed.post/3me3bnu5ugc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/bykenarmstrong.bsky.social/post/3mdjsx2bdzc22I didn't know Dan. But as a @defector.com reader, I felt like I did. More than once, he made my day, including the day he fact-checked quotes in a New Jersey rest stop. https://defector.com/the-garden-state-parkways-jon-bon-jovi-rest-stop-is-playing-fast-and-loose-with-famous-quotes?giftLink=636ca927e8f1912974b54d46f3195b74 [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jan 2026 03:12 +0000at://did:plc:yff5ggkkflt2ajjpe7cdwhyx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdjsx2bdzc22https://bsky.app/profile/bykenarmstrong.bsky.social/post/3maot7idmas26If you missed @davidmcswane.bsky.social's investigation two years ago, there's no better time than to read it now. Stunning reporting. Stunning writing. It's a story you won't soon forget. @propublica.org [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Dec 2025 22:44 +0000at://did:plc:yff5ggkkflt2ajjpe7cdwhyx/app.bsky.feed.post/3maot7idmas26https://bsky.app/profile/bykenarmstrong.bsky.social/post/3maf3eupg722aAfter the flood warnings comes...this20 Dec 2025 01:44 +0000at://did:plc:yff5ggkkflt2ajjpe7cdwhyx/app.bsky.feed.post/3maf3eupg722ahttps://bsky.app/profile/bykenarmstrong.bsky.social/post/3m7dlmvr56c2tI hope you’ll check this out. We turned an investigative story about the "digital arrests" sweeping the world’s most populous country and turned it into a web comic that captures the psychological horror for victims. The brilliant Anand RK (anandrk.art) did the illustrations. @bloomberg.com 🎁 link: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-india-digital-arrest-by-phone-graphic-novel/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NDk2Njk1MSwiZXhwIjoxNzY1NTcxNzUxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNlEyWjBLR0lGUEkwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwMDAxMjc5NURCNEY0QTUyODg2NDFGQjBENTgzOTJEQSJ9.YlSl3v8lP5Q_kguTuOKmmHEV28ulzkukos0pNZVS2vs06 Dec 2025 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:yff5ggkkflt2ajjpe7cdwhyx/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7dlmvr56c2thttps://bsky.app/profile/bykenarmstrong.bsky.social/post/3m3leksk25c2gA 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 [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Oct 2025 22:38 +0000at://did:plc:yff5ggkkflt2ajjpe7cdwhyx/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3leksk25c2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/bykenarmstrong.bsky.social/post/3m3l5r3izvs2fFellow 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. 1/3 https://truestoryaward.org/19 Oct 2025 20:37 +0000at://did:plc:yff5ggkkflt2ajjpe7cdwhyx/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3l5r3izvs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/bykenarmstrong.bsky.social/post/3m2oxfh26tc2yWhen 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. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/she-didnt-believe-she-won-the-nobel-until-a-photographer-showed-up-at-her-seattle-door/08 Oct 2025 15:28 +0000at://did:plc:yff5ggkkflt2ajjpe7cdwhyx/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2oxfh26tc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/bykenarmstrong.bsky.social/post/3lzmxtvtrlc2bThis 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 https://www.ire.org/ire-journal/honoring-susan-carroll/25 Sep 2025 03:06 +0000at://did:plc:yff5ggkkflt2ajjpe7cdwhyx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzmxtvtrlc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/bykenarmstrong.bsky.social/post/3lyjlks7vac2rPhilip 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 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/takes/philip-gourevitch-on-gilles-peresss-photo-from-september-11th?_sp=852aed9d-20dd-4187-8dfb-b90dcd66470e.175755306015911 Sep 2025 01:23 +0000at://did:plc:yff5ggkkflt2ajjpe7cdwhyx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyjlks7vac2r