Sophie Tatum

About

Sophie Tatum is passionate journalist with a proven track record for reporting scoops, turning breaking news around quickly and making complex stories digestible for digital, audio and broadcast audiences.Based in New York, Tatum is currently works for CNN's politics-focused morning show, "CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt," where she writes and produces multiple segments each day for the two-hour live show. She came to CNN from The Messenger, where she was a politics reporter covering high-profile House, Senate and down-ballot campaigns, and the issues driving voters to the polls. Prior to The Messenger, she was a politics reporter for the media startup Grid (which was acquired by The Messenger.) At Grid, Tatum spent her time reporting on everything from down-ballot races to the fight over abortion access and crime. Before she joined Grid, Tatum was a reporter and producer for ABC News in Washington, D.C.. She joined ABC News as a policy reporter, covering the federal agencies with a focus on education. When the pandemic hit, she shifted to covering the federal response to COVID-19 and how the pandemic was impacting schools. This included offering editorial guidance to the organization, writing for digital, and producing, reporting, and hosting a long-form podcast episode about students returning back to school for the first time in the spring of 2020. In addition to her extensive reporting work at ABC News, she most recently spent several months producing for the network's signature Sunday politics show "This Week," as well as "Good Morning America."Tatum also served as a breaking news reporter for CNN Politics, where she wrote and reported spot news and in-depth coverage for CNN's digital politics site. She previously was a digital producer at CNN, where she worked on the day-to-day production of politics news content across CNN digital platforms, live blogged for major events, and regularly wrote for the breaking news team, among other responsibilities. Before joining CNN, she was a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and graduated in December 2015 with degrees in Broadcasting and Print Journalism, minors in Political Science, Economics, and Global Security Studies, and a concentration in Arabic. Tatum reported for the Nebraska News Service, a statewide wire service covering the state legislature — where she broke the story that the Nebraska government had spent more than $50,000 on lethal injection drugs while the legislature was in the process of repealing the death penalty.