AL.com reporting on police dogs wins White House Correspondents’ award
Updated Apr 19, 2021;
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AL.com and three other newsrooms have won a national White House Correspondents’ Association award for investigative journalism for in-depth reporting on the violent use of police dogs in America.
The series “Mauled: When Police Dogs are Weapons” won the association’s Katherine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability named for the late publisher of the
The contest judges called the reporting “penetrating” in the series led by the story of an Alabama man killed by a K-9 officer and said the investigation “couldn’t be more timely or relevant” in a time of national debate on police behavior.