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Article: A hard day's Nightline: Ted Koppel brought hard news to late night.(From the Archives)
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- December 1, 2008
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Award-winning journalist Ted Koppel is Discovery Channel's managing editor, senior news analyst for National Public Radio and a contributing analyst for BBC World News America. Koppel spent 42 years at ABC News and was the anchor for Nightline for 25 years before leaving the late-night news program in 2005. This is an excerpt from a feature on Koppel that appeared in the April 1982 issue of SUCCESS.
He's the Grand Inquisitor of late-night television, whose penetrating, no-nonsense interviews have won critical acclaim and an audience of millions.
Since his sudden rise from network correspondent to full-time anchorman two years ago, Ted Koppel has labored ...