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Delivering an address in person will be something of a new experience for today's Class Day Speaker. Ted Koppel, anchor of ABC's "Nightline." Five nights a week, Koppel communicates with several million viewers through television...
...spent his undergraduate years at Syracuse University and received a Masters in journalism from Stanford. In 1963, he joined ABC and reported from Vietnam--he learned Vietnamese before he left--and then headed the network's Hong Kong bureau. In 1977, he became the anchor of the ABC "Saturday Night Evening News...
While someone like Walter Cronkite has said that his prominence often prevented him from leaving the anchor booth to report stories from the field. Koppel says that he doesn't worry about the effects of his increased exposure and celebrated status. U.S. News and World Report, for instance recently named him one of the nation's 30 most influential individuals...
...reflected in a nation-leading total of 154.4 million lines of advertising last year, has ballooned the paper to an average of 111 pages daily, vs. 96 for the New York Times. Each edition is chockablock with lovingly crafted explorations, of subjects ranging from the education of a TV anchor to the buying patterns of Hispanic migrant workers, that jump confusingly from page to page after page. At its best, the Times can be as informative and interpretive as any daily in the English language. At its worst, it seems to reflect a mistaken notion that readers want to spend...
...success of On the Road very nearly spoiled it. Kuralt became a star CBS property, and he was pulled off the road time and again: at various times, he has anchored the network's morning, evening and Sunday shows. He will anchor as well as report on The American Parade, and some stories -for example, an interview with New York Governor Mario Cuomo - will even edge him back into hard news...