First Mover: McKay Coppins

Specs Age 25 New gig Political editor, BuzzFeed Old gig Political reporter, BuzzFeed What’s your role as BuzzFeed’s political editor? It’s to build on the momentum the politics section gained in 2012. Which is a harder task than it would seem. 2012 was a great year for us. We went from something that D.C. hadn’t heard of to driving some of the conversation on the campaign trail for a good part of...