McKay Coppins
Born (1987-02-02) February 2, 1987
Massachusetts, United States
NationalityAmerican
EducationBrigham Young University
OccupationJournalist
Known forReporting on politics, religion
Websitewww.theatlantic.com/author/mckay-coppins/

McKay Coppins (born February 2, 1987) is an American journalist and author who is a staff writer for The Atlantic. In 2012, Coppins was one of the "30 under 30" media pundits in Forbes magazine[1] and also listed along with three other young BuzzFeed News journalists as one of Politico's "ten breakout reporters of 2012."[2] He is a regular contributor to CNN and MSNBC.[3]

Coppins was raised in Holliston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brigham Young University where he was editor of BYU's student newspaper, The Daily Universe.[4]

Career

Coppins began his career at Newsweek and broke the story that Jon Huntsman Jr., would resign his ambassadorship in China and run for President.[5]

Coppins joined BuzzFeed to cover the 2012 presidential race, becoming an important source on Governor Mitt Romney's Latter-day Saint (Mormon) faith.[6] 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.[7][8][9] 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.[10] Walter Russell Mead favorably reviewed the book in Foreign Affairs, writing that it was "[w]idely sourced and compellingly written."[11] 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".[12]

Personal life

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.[4][13] He and his wife were married in 2009 and have four children.[14]

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 30 interviews with Romney and thousands of private emails, text messages, and diary entries.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "McCay Coppins, 25, Politics editor, Buzzfeed". Forbes. Archived from the original on December 31, 2012.
  2. ↑ Dylan Byers, "10 breakout political reporters of 2012", Politico (November 25, 2012).
  3. ↑ "Meet The Next Wave Of Political Pundits". Details. 31 (2): 48. November 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-10-25.
  4. 1 2 "McKay Coppins as Mr. Buzzfeed and the 'Mormon Wikipedia'". The Daily Universe. 2014-11-14. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  5. ↑ Coppins, McKay. "The Manchurian Candidate". Newsweek.
  6. ↑ "McKay Coppins, the Mormon on Mitt's trail". Politico. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  7. ↑ "36 Hours On The Fake Campaign Trail With Donald Trump". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  8. ↑ "Trump Calls BuzzFeed Reporter 'True Garbage with No Credibility'". Mediaite. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  9. ↑ Trotter, J.K. "BuzzFeed's Trump Takedown Drives Breitbart to the Brink of Insanity". Gawker. Archived from the original on 2016-02-05. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  10. ↑ John Diaz. "'The Wilderness,' by McKay Coppins". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  11. ↑ Mead, Walter Russell (March 2016). "The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House by McKay Coppins". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
  12. ↑ "How the Haters and Losers Lost" by McKay Coppins July 17, 2016
  13. ↑ McKay Coppins, Why The Internet Hasn't Shattered My Mormon Faith, BuzzFeed News (July 22, 2013).
  14. ↑ Toone, Trent. "Atlantic journalist and BYU graduate McKay Coppins talks Latter-day Saint millennials", Deseret News, Utah, 2 October 2018. Retrieved on 21 February 2020.
  15. ↑ Allen, Mile (2023-02-09). "Scoop: Mitt Romney reveals hundreds of emails to book author". Axios. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
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