Ken Otterbourg, Researcher, joined the Registry in 2018. He worked for the Winston-Salem Journal from 1990-2010, the last five as managing editor. The newspaper's investigation of a wrongful conviction was a principal factor in the creation of the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission in 2006. As a freelance writer since 2010, his work has appeared in The Washington Post Magazine, The New York Times, Fortune, National Geographic and Longreads. At the Registry, he researches and writes case summaries of individual exonerations and group exonerations.