Word: koppel
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When he talks about his family and the power of television in general, and "Nightline" in particular, Koppel sounds like a confident, contented man with an uninflated ego. Small says Koppel has "a marvelous self-deprecating sense of humor," and Koppel admits his mistakes: "of course I've said stupid things on the air." Lord adds that Koppel "cares about his staff...
...Koppel says that he also cares about his family and his privacy. He will not speak in any detail about his four children, whom he hopes to keep out of the public eye. And he notes with pride that his wife took and passed the bar exam on her first attempt and now practices...
...when Grace Anne Koppel wanted to return to school. Koppel offered his resignation to ABC so that he could stay at home. While he and ABC eventually arrived at an alternative plan--he remained on half-pay and broadcast radio commentaries from home--Koppel nonetheless accepted reduced exposure. "I don't know anyone who would have done that," Small says...
...Koppel explains his reasoning simply: "At one point in our lives, my wife, who was a Ph.D candidate at Stanford, gave up her career so that I could be a foreign correspondent. So when she wanted to go to law school. I took time off." He worried little about his own career, he says. "I had time to lose. I started early enough...
...fact, the 44-year-old old Koppel started roughly 36 years ago. "I knew I wanted to be a broadcast journalist when I was eight or nine," he says. "In my most formative years. I listened to the likes of Edward R. Murrow." The British-born Koppel came to the U.S. in 1953, 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...