By: E&P Staff Los Angeles Times Editor Dean Baquet today announced that Joel Sappell will take a new masthead position, assistant managing editor and executive editor, Interactive.
Sappell, 52, who joined the paper in 1981, will oversee editorial content on latimes.com and calendarlive.com, as well as new interactive initiatives such as TheEnvelope.com, an entertainment awards site that will launch in November.
"It has become clear over time that interactive is a different animal, but one that should be guided by the same bedrock principles as the newsroom," Baquet said in a statement. "It is a testament to the importance of the Web that we are placing one of our most creative and aggressive editors in charge of the editorial part of the site."
Since 2002, Sappell has led The Times' business entertainment coverage. He also edited coverage of the groping allegations against Arnold Schwarzenegger during the 2003 gubernatorial recall election. From 1997 to 2002, he was Metro projects editor.
As city editor from 1994 to 1997, he directed coverage of the O.J. Simpson case, and helped oversee the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the 1994 Northridge earthquake. He was also a member of a second team that won a Pulitzer Prize for The Times' coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
"I'm excited about the prospect of tapping into the quality and breadth of The Times to vastly broaden our audience across the Internet," Sappell said. "We're committed to an interactive future that captures the vibrancy and complexity of Southern California and the world beyond."
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