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What Is Ted Koppel's Net Worth?

Ted Koppel is a British-born American newscaster, producer, and author who has a net worth of $30 million. Ted Koppel began his professional career as a teacher and was then hired to work at WMCA Radio in New York. He began working on "Flair Reports" for ABC Radio in 1963, becoming the youngest correspondent ever hired by ABC. Throughout the '60s and '70s, he worked as a war correspondent and U.S. State Department correspondent. In 1980, Ted began hosting "Nightline," a job which he performed for 25 years, stepping down in 2005.

Post-"Nightline," Koppel has served as a special correspondent for a number of programs, including "Rock Center," and for BBC News. He has also written columns for "The New York Times," appeared on a number of radio programs on NPR, and served as the managing editor for the Discovery Channel. Ted has been a special contributor on "CBS News Sunday Morning" since 2015, and he executive produced the 1990 special "The 21st Century: World Without Walls?" and the 2006 Emmy-winning TV series "Koppel on Discovery." Ted has also published books such as "Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public" (2000) and "Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath" (2015).

Early Life

Ted Koppel was born EdwardJames MartinKoppel on February 8, 1940, in Nelson, Lancashire, England. His Jewish parents, Alice and Edwin, fled Germany afterAdolf Hitlerrose to power, and during their time in Germany, Edwin ran a tire-manufacturing company. The U.K.'s Home Secretary invited Koppel's parents to move the factory to England, and they moved it to Lancaster in 1936. When war broke out in the late 1930s, Edwin was imprisoned for over a year on the Isle of Man after being declared an enemy alien. Ted was born during this time, and Alice took menial jobs and sold her jewelry to provide for him. After Edwin was released, he wasn't allowed to work in England, and the family immigrated to the U.S. when Koppel was 13 years old. While living in England, Ted attended Derbyshire's Abbotsholme School. After the family moved to the U.S., Edwin opened a tire factory, and Alice became a pianist and singer. During his youth, Koppel's hero was Edward R. Murrow, whose radio broadcasts about the bombing of London inspired Ted to pursue a career in journalism. In the U.S., Koppel studied at the New York private preparatory school the McBurney School, then he earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Syracuse University at the age of 20. There, he joined the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity's Alpha Chi chapter. Ted later attended Stanford University, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in political science and mass-communications research.

Career

Koppel worked as a teacher before landing a job at "The New York Times" as a copyboy and being hired to write for New York's WMCA Radio. In 1963, he began working for ABC Radio News on the "Flair Reports" daily program. That year Ted's coverage of the assassination of PresidentJohn F. Kennedygained him attention from the national news audience. In the '60s, he also covered the civil rights movement in Alabama and served as ABC News' Vietnam War correspondent before becoming the network's U.S. State Department correspondent and Hong Kong bureau chief. Koppel traveled to China with PresidentRichard Nixonin the early '70s, and he was subsequently featured in the USC US-China Institute documentary series "Assignment: China."

By the mid-1970s, Koppel had become the anchor of the Saturday edition of "ABC Evening News." In 1979, Ted was the lead reporter on "Second to None?," an 11-part series about the dangers of nuclear war that earned him an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award. From 1980 to 2005, he hosted the late-night news program "Nightline," and he won several News & Documentary Emmy Awards for the show.

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