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.

[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.

[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.

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.