From 1980 through 2005, TED KOPPEL, an ABC News veteran of 42 years, was the anchor and managing editor of Nightline. Koppel was been designated one of the best 100 American journalists of the last century by New York University. He has won every major television award, including eight George Foster Peabody Awards, eleven Overseas Press Club Awards (one more than the previous record holder, Edward R. Murrow), and eight Emmy Awards. 12 duPont-Columbia Awards and 42 Emmys, according to Murrow. He has worked as the Discovery Channel's managing editor since 2005, as a news analyst for BBC America, as a special correspondent for Rock Center, and as a commentator and non-fiction book critic for NPR. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Off Camera and has contributed columns to the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal.