Koppel, Ted, 1940 February 8-

Edward James "Ted" Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is an American broadcast journalist. He spent much of his career at the ABC network, for whom he was a war correspondent in Vietnam and later the State Department Correspondent for ABC News. He is most widely known for his twenty-five year tenure (1980-2005) as the anchor for the ABC news program Nightline . Koppel is currently a senior news analyst for National Public Radio (NPR), contributing analyst to BBC World News America, and a contributor to the new NBC News primetime newsmagazine Rock Center with Brian Williams .

From the guide to the Ted Koppel Papers, 1959-2008, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)

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