Ted Koppel
British-American television journalist
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Edward James Martin Koppel is a British-born American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline, from the program's inception in 1980 until 2005.
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News consumers in the heartlandTed Koppel talks with Trump voters in West Virginia about their views on the president's COVID-19 diagnosis, and explores the increasing reliance on partisan social media sources for one's newsCBS News - Published | |
"Sunday Morning" Full Episode 9/27Hosted by Jane Pauley. In our cover story, Ted Koppel examines the controversy over qualified immunity, which shields police officers from civil lawsuits in many cases. Plus: Pauley profiles..CBS News - Published | |
The controversy behind qualified immunityThe doctrine of qualified immunity, whereby police officers are protected from civil lawsuits in certain cases, has come under question. Would eliminating qualified immunity improve relations between..CBS News - Published | |
Limits of power?The power of the president is enormous – and may be even more so with presidential emergency action documents (PEADs), classified orders granting vast presidential authority in response to..CBS News - Published | |
Free speech and the price of defamationIn 2016 an African American student from Oberlin College in Ohio, trying to use a fake ID to buy wine, was taken into custody by police. The arrest prompted demonstrations that accused the store's..CBS News - Published | |
Sean Hannity on his brandIs journalism dead? And might opinionated cable TV news hosts be to blame? In this web exclusive, Fox News' Sean Hannity talks to Ted Koppel about his own particular brand of conservative political..CBS News - Published | |
A polarized AmericaIncreasingly, we Americans occupy alternate universes, with very little common ground -- only battling perceptions of reality. A Pew study finds 81% of voters say they cannot agree with the other side..CBS News - Published | |
The great divide: Trump and the pressThe media wars surrounding coverage of President Donald Trump have been getting louder by the day - and Americans have become more polarized than ever. Senior contributor Ted Koppel talks with..CBS News - Published | |
Living with COPDChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD, is the nation's third-biggest killer, after heart disease and cancer. About 150,000 Americans die of COPD each year. Among women, it is more deadly than..CBS News - Published | |
Smartphones and our information overloadThe internet, and the ever-present smartphones from which we cannot detach ourselves, are changing the ways we relate to technology - and, at the same time, changing the way we use our brains. Senior..CBS News - Published | |
Voices from "The Q": A prison podcastIn this special two-part report, "Sunday Morning" senior contributor Ted Koppel goes inside San Quentin State Prison in California, to which inmates are now applying to get in, due to its innovative..CBS News - Published | |
How Ted Turner might run CNN todayIn this preview of an interview to air on "Sunday Morning" September 30, CNN founder Ted Turner talks with Ted Koppel about his view of the cable news network today.CBS News - Published | |
Ted Turner: A dreamer, not a quitterYou need a wide lens on your camera to capture the many sides of Ted Turner, especially out on his sprawling, 113,000-acre ranch near Bozeman, Montana. Owner of a TV station and sports franchises,..CBS News - Published | On the frontlines of photographyMany photojournalists have lost their lives or limbs on the battle lines, because the only way to document the violence of war is up close. "Sunday Morning" Special Contributor Ted Koppel looks at the..CBS News - Published |
A poem by Ted Koppel"Sunday Morning" is treated to an ode by our Special Contributor Ted Koppel.CBS News - Published | The role of news media in the age of TrumpPresident Donald Trump's understanding of the power of social media to spread his message has contributed to dramatic changes in how journalism functions today. In this web extra, "Sunday Morning"..CBS News - Published |
"Network" and the changing state of TV newsIn the years since the premiere of Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning satire "Network," in which TV news anchor Howard Beale became a "mad prophet of the airwaves," 24-hour cable news operations have..CBS News - Published | Jay Leno in the driver's seatTraffic during rush hour in Washington, D.C., is among the worst in the nation – so lethargic that even a venerable Ford Model T, driven by comedian and car aficionado Jay Leno, would have to slow..CBS News - Published |
George Will: Where he standsThe Washington Post columnist and political commentator George Will has been a staunch and unshakable advocate for conservative policies for more than four decades. Calling conservatism in the Age of..CBS News - Published | The grind of a tennis player's life on tourIn the world of tennis, an athlete who is not among the highest-ranked is just barely scrimping by, living a nomadic life in second-rate hotels while competing in tournaments like the Little Rock Open..CBS News - Published |
Ansly's ArmyAnsly Damus, a 42-year-old asylum seeker from Haiti, spent over two years in jail despite having committed no crime. Ted Koppel reports on how he came to live in Melody Hart and Gary Benjamin's..CBS News - Published | Asylum-seeker from Haiti finds an army of supporters in ClevelandAnsly Damus spent over two years in jail despite having committed no crime. Ted Koppel reports on how he came to live in Melody Hart and Gary Benjamin's upstairs bedroom in Cleveland Heights, OhioCBS News - Published |
