Ken Armstrong
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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- Ruth 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."
- A 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..."
- Writing an obituary is important work—a final record of a person lost. I wrote this one for a former colleague, business columnist Jon Talton; like me, he moved between the worlds of journalism and fiction. I was honored to write about him. Rest peacefully, Jon. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
