Ashley Remkus | aremkus@al.com

Ashley Remkus is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and the Local Investigative Editor for AL.com. She previously worked as an investigative reporter, covering the justice system and policing with a focus on accountability and public access. She joined AL.com in 2016 as a public safety beat reporter. In 2023, she earned the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for the investigative series that exposed predatory policing in the town of Brookside, reporting that freed people from jail, prompted Alabama legislators to pass new laws and led to the traffic court judge being banned from the bench. In 2021 she was part of the AL.com team that won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and the Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability, among other honors. The team of reporters and editors across four newsrooms spent a year investigating K-9 units and the injuries police dogs inflict on Americans. Remkus also was part of a team nominated for a national Emmy award in 2021 for contributions to the PBS NewsHour series “Searching for Justice.” Her work has been recognized by the George Polk Awards, the Sidney Hillman Foundation, the National Headliner Awards, Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Online News Association, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Alabama Press Association. Remkus appeared in State of Alabama vs. Brittany Smith, a 2022 Netflix documentary that tells "the harrowing story of a woman trying to use Alabama's stand-your-ground law as a defense after killing a man she says brutally attacked her." A native of northwest Alabama, Remkus is a 2015 graduate of the University of North Alabama.