McKay Coppins
McKay Coppins is an American journalist and author who is a senior political writer for BuzzFeed News. In 2012, Coppins was one of the Forbes magazine's "30 under 30" media pundits[1] and 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]
Early life
Coppins grew up 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 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] As of 2015, Coppins is a senior political writer at BuzzFeed News.[10]
In 2015, Coppins published The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House.[11] Walter Russell Mead favorably reviewed the book in Foreign Affairs, writing that it was "[w]idely sourced and compellingly written."[12]
Personal life
Coppins is a Mormon and has written about his faith.[13]
References
- ^ http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eeji45eegdf/mckay-coppins-25-politics-editor-buzzfeed/
- ^ Dylan Byers, 10 breakout political reporters of 2012, Politico (November 25, 2012).
- ^ "Meet the Next Wave of Political Pundits". Details.com.
{{cite web}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ "McKay Coppins as Mr. Buzzfeed and the 'Mormon Wikipedia'". U N I V E R S E. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
- ^ Coppins, McKay. "The Manchurian Candidate" – via Newsweek.
- ^ "McKay Coppins, the Mormon on Mitt's trail". Politico. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
- ^ "36 Hours On The Fake Campaign Trail With Donald Trump". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
- ^ "Trump Calls BuzzFeed Reporter 'True Garbage with No Credibility'". Mediaite. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
- ^ Trotter, J.K. "BuzzFeed's Trump Takedown Drives Breitbart to the Brink of Insanity". Gawker. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
- ^ McKay Coppins, How Donald Trump courted the right-wing fringe to conquer the GOP, Washington Post (November 27, 2015).
- ^ John Diaz. "'The Wilderness,' by McKay Coppins". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
- ^ 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.
- ^ McKay Coppins, Why The Internet Hasn't Shattered My Mormon Faith, BuzzFeed News (July 22, 2013).