McKay Coppins | |
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Born | Massachusetts, United States | February 2, 1987
Nationality | American |
Education | Brigham Young University |
Occupation | Journalist |
Known for | Reporting on politics, religion |
Website | www |
McKay Coppins (born February 2, 1987) is an American journalist, author, and staff writer for The Atlantic .
Coppins began his career at Newsweek and broke the story that Jon Huntsman Jr., would resign his ambassadorship in China and run for President. [1]
Coppins joined BuzzFeed to cover the 2012 presidential race, becoming an important source on Governor Mitt Romney's Latter-day Saint (Mormon) faith. [2] In 2012, Coppins was one of the "30 under 30" media pundits in Forbes magazine [3] and also listed along with three other young BuzzFeed News journalists as one of Politico 's "ten breakout reporters of 2012." [4] He is a regular contributor to CNN and MSNBC. [5]
In the run-up to the 2016 presidential primaries, Coppins became embroiled in a public Twitter feud with Republican candidate Donald Trump after writing articles suggesting that Trump was running a "fake" campaign. [6] [7] [8] In November 2016, he announced he was leaving BuzzFeed to join The Atlantic as a staff writer.
In 2015, Coppins published The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House. [9] Walter Russell Mead favorably reviewed the book in Foreign Affairs , writing that it was "[w]idely sourced and compellingly written." [10] He has an acrimonious relationship with President Donald Trump after he called his presidential aspirations a "sham"; Trump in response called him a "dishonest slob". [11]
Coppins released a biography of Mitt Romney called Romney: A Reckoning on October 24, 2023. The book covers 25 years of American politics, based on 45 interviews with Romney and thousands of private emails, text messages, and diary entries. [12] [13]
Coppins was raised in Holliston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brigham Young University where he was editor of BYU's student newspaper, The Daily Universe . [14]
Coppins is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), in which he served a full-time mission, and he has often written about his faith. [14] [15] Coppins felt his background in the church helped him while writing about Mitt Romney, a fellow Latter Day Saint, as it helped Coppins "in understanding the elusive candidate as an actual person". [16] Coppins and his wife were married in 2009 and have four children. [17]
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