Tal Kopan | |
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Born | Tal Teva Kopan December 19, 1986 |
Education | A.B. University of Chicago |
Occupation | Journalist |
Spouse | Bryan McMahon |
Parent(s) | Esther and Raphael Kopan |
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Tal Kopan (born December 19, 1986) [1] is deputy Washington bureau chief of The Boston Globe. She joined the newspaper in 2022, after serving four years as the Washington correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle [2] and previously was an American political reporter for CNN, where she focused on immigration and cybersecurity. [3]
Tal Teva Kopan was born in 1987 in Chicago, Illinois, [4] the daughter of Esther (née Shidlovsky) and Raphael Kopan. [5] Her father was born in Petah Tikva, Israel and served as an infantry lieutenant in the Israel Defense Forces before emigrating to the United States to obtain a PhD at the University of Chicago (where he worked under Elaine Fuchs); he currently works as a professor of developmental biology at Washington University in St. Louis. [5] Kopan was raised in metropolitan Saint Louis, Missouri where she played percussion with Daniel Wittels and Marvin McNutt and graduated with honors with an A.B. from the University of Chicago. [5] She has one sister, Gili Kopan. [5]
During school, Kopan interned as a web producer at WFLD in Chicago and then as a freelance web producer at ABC 7 Chicago where she covered the trial of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and the election of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. [3] She then went to work for Politico in Washington D.C. as a breaking news reporter and then cybersecurity reporter. [3] She also worked for CNN as a political reporter where she specialized on immigration and cybersecurity. [3] She's currently the Washington correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Kopan was selected as a 2014-2015 National Press Foundation Paul Miller Fellow, was a member of the 2015 class of Journalist Law School at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and was a recipient of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Midwest Chapter's 2008 Ephraim Family Scholarship. [3]
She is married to her high school sweetheart, Bryan McMahon. [6]
Tal Kopan turns 32
Tal Kopan is a breaking news reporter for POLITICO. Most recently, Kopan was a Web producer for POLITICO Pro. Prior to joining POLITICO, Kopan worked as a Web producer at Fox Chicago News and as a freelance Web producer at ABC 7 Chicago, where she spent time covering such stories as the trial(s) of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Kopan graduated with honors from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's in law, letters and society. On campus, she was editor-in-chief of a features magazine and played four years on the women's ultimate Frisbee team. Also a triathlete, Kopan completed her first half Ironman-distance race in 2013. Born in Chicago but raised in St. Louis, Kopan is a die-hard Bears, Bulls and Cardinals fan but will try to find room in her heart for Washington sports teams.
: Bryan, a project manager at Lockheed Martin's Global Vision Center, proposed to Tal, a reporter covering cybsecurity at Politico, on the three-year anniversary of their move to D.C., near the spot on the Tidal Basin where they stopped to process after signing a lease and making the big move three years prior. The high-school sweethearts have been together more than 12 years.