About me
Dugan Arnett is an award-winning investigative reporter on The
Boston Globe's quick strike projects team. Since joining the team in
2021, his work has spanned a variety of subjects with a focus on
government accountability, policing, and the criminal justice system.
In 2021, he published a series of stories examining the ripple
effects of the previous year’s national movement against police
misconduct and brutality.
Arnett joined the Globe staff as a features writer in 2015 and later
worked as a general assignment reporter on the paper's Metro
desk. Before arriving in Boston, he spent four years as a features
and metro reporter at the Kansas City Star, where he covered
topics ranging from a father’s tortured quest to prove his son’s
innocence in a journalist’s high-profile slaying, to the young
members of Kansas’s notorious Westboro Baptist Church. He was
previously part of a writing fellowship for young journalists at the Poynter Institute in St.
Petersburg, Fla.
His work has been recognized by the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, the Investigative
Reporters and Editors, the Society for Features Journalism, and the Associated Press Sports
Editors, among others. A native of the Midwest, he is a graduate of the University of Missouri
School of Journalism.
