Dan Klepal is editor of the local government team, supervising nine reporters covering county and municipal governments and metro Atlanta. Klepal came to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2012, after a long career covering city halls in Cincinnati and Louisville, Ky. While at the AJC, Klepal initially covered Gwinnett County before switching to Cobb County during construction of Truist Park. He went on to the newspaper’s investigative team, where he was part of a group of reporters investigating Atlanta City Hall during the federal corruption investigation. He became an assistant editor in 2019 and now runs the local government team. Klepal is a father of four.