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Ted Koppel has embodied the term “eye-witness to history” throughout the 50-plus years that he has worked as a professional journalist. He has covered a wide variety of political events, including the presidential nominating conventions of both parties going back to 1964, President Nixon’s historic visit to China in 1972, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
Koppel became the longest-serving news anchor in U.S. broadcast history, after being the anchor and managing editor of Nightline for over 26 years.
Among the more than 6,000 Nightline broadcasts, he anchored was the one on the last day of the Soviet Union during which he was the only reporter with Mikhail Ghorbachev inside the Kremlin. He was also the first journalist to interview Nelson Mandela at his home in South Africa upon his release from prison.
When he left ABC News after 42 years, Koppel was the most honored reporter in that network’s history, having received more “Overseas Press Club” awards than the previous record holder, Edward R. Murrow, and eight “George Foster Pe
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Ted Koppel
British-American television journalist (born 1940)
Edward James Martin Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is a British-born American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline, from the program's inception in 1980 until 2005.
Before Nightline, he spent 20 years as a broadcast journalist and news anchor for ABC. After becoming host of Nightline, he was regarded as one of the outstanding serious-minded interviewers on American television. Five years after its 1980 debut, the show had a nightly audience of about 7.5 million viewers.[1]
After leaving Nightline, Koppel worked as managing editor for the Discovery Channel, a news analyst for NPR and BBC World News America and a contributor to Rock Center with Brian Williams. Since 2016, Koppel has served as a special contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning. His career as a foreign and diplomatic correspondent earned him numerous awards, including nine Overseas Press Club awards and 25 Emmy Awards.
Early life and education
Edward James Martin Koppel,[2] an only ch
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Ted Koppel (1940- ) is an English-born American broadcast journalist, television news anchor and author. He is most known for his twenty-five-year tenure as anchor and managing editor of the ABC News program Nightline. The video collection consists of ABC News productions with Ted Koppel, including 6,500 episodes of Nightline (Mar 1980-Nov 2005), episodes of The Koppel Report and other news programs and documentaries produced and anchored by Ted Koppel. View the collection finding aid.
Due to copyright restrictions on this collection, access to video files is currently limited to users on computers with hard-wired connections in Bird Library on the campus of Syracuse University. All users, regardless of location, may browse the metadata that describes the various resources.
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