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 Kopan | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Tal Kopan in 2014 | |
| Born | Tal Teva Kopan December 19, 1986 |
| Education | A.B. University of Chicago |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Spouse | Bryan McMahon |
| Parent(s) | Esther and Raphael Kopan |
| Website | www |
Biography
Tal Teva Kopan was born in 1986 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 in 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]
Personal life
She is married to her high school sweetheart, Bryan McMahon.[6]