FORA.tv Speaker - Joel Sappell

Joel Sappell, a 26 year L.A. Times veteran, now serves as Deputy for Special Projects to L.A. County supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky. Sappell joined the Times staff in 1981 as a staff writer. From that post, he was promoted to a variety of positions, including city editor, metro projects editor, senior entertainment editor, and executive editor of LAtimes.com. During his career there, he oversaw award-winning coverage of the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and two Pulitzer Prize-winning projects in 1992 and 1994.