Tal Kopan

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Tal Kopan
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Tal Kopan in 2014
Born
Tal Teva Kopan

(1986-12-19) December 19, 1986 (age 37)
EducationA.B. University of Chicago
OccupationJournalist
SpouseBryan McMahon
Parent(s)Esther and Raphael Kopan
Website www.talkopan.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

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]

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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]

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References

  1. "Jewish Insider's Daily Kickoff: December 19, 2018". The Times of Israel . December 19, 2018. Tal Kopan turns 32
  2. "Tal Kopan, Deputy Washington Bureau Chief". The Boston Globe . Retrieved May 25, 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "CNN Bios - Tal Kopan CNN Politics Reporter". CNN . Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  4. Kopan, Tal (November 19, 2013). "Police: Katherine Harris husband kills self". Truth Frequency Radio. Tal Kopan is a breaking news reporter for POLITICO. Most recently, Kopan was a Web producer for POLITICO Pro. Before 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.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Strait, Julia Evangelou (February 24, 2011). "Washington People: Raphael Kopan - Kopan seeks to discover how cells communicate". Washington University in St. Louis The Source.
  6. Mike, Allen (March 31, 2015). "ENGAGED! Tal Kopan to Bryan McMahon". Politico . Retrieved April 30, 2018. : 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.