Edward James "Ted" Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

-born American

United States

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 broadcast journalist

Journalism

Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

, best known as the anchor

News presenter

A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...

 for Nightline from the program's inception in 1980 until his retirement in late 2005. After leaving Nightline, Koppel worked as managing editor

Managing editor

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 for the Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel

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 before resigning in 2008. Koppel is currently a senior news analyst for National Public Radio and contributing analyst to BBC World News America

BBC World News America

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, and will contribute to the new NBC News

NBC News

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 primetime newsmagazine

Newsmagazine

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 Rock Center with Brian Williams

Rock Center with Brian Williams

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Koppel, an only child, was born in Nelson, Lancashire

Nelson, Lancashire

Nelson is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, with a population of 28,998 in 2001. It lies 4 miles north of Burnley on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal....

, England, after his German Jewish parents fled Germany due to the rise of Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

 and Nazism

Nazism

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