J.D. Capelouto

J.D. is a local news reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution covering intown Atlanta and Atlanta City Hall. He joined the AJC as a staff reporter in 2018 and previously covered breaking news and DeKalb County. He is a graduate of Boston University and has previously written for The Boston Globe and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. He is also an Atlanta native and a former AJC intern. Feel free to reach out with any story ideas, tips, feedback or questions.

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Interactive: How Atlanta’s neighborhoods are funding the mayoral candidates

What would ‘Buckhead City’ look like? We crunched the numbers

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Former Cobb commission chairman Tim Lee dies after cancer diagnosis

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