Tal Kopan

Tal Kopan (born December 19, 1986) 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 and previously was an American political reporter for CNN, where she focused on immigration and cybersecurity.

Biography Tal Teva Kopan was born in 1986 in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Esther (née Shidlovsky) and Raphael Kopan. 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.