Ted Koppel

Ted Koppel is an American broadcast journalist best known for anchoring ABC's *Nightline* from 1980 to 2005.

The program began as coverage of the Iran hostage crisis and became a respected forum for in-depth news interviews.

Koppel's measured delivery and probing questions made him a fixture of late-night television journalism.

His name evokes a particular era of serious, substantive broadcast news.

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journalism · interview · broadcast · news · television · Iran hostage crisis · correspondent · investigative · in-depth reporting · hard-hitting questions · mustache · serious · gravitas · network · reporting · late night · current events · foreign policy

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Ted, Edward

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Mostly American · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G