Recent Work
Following Nightline Koppel has taken on a number of roles which span various formats of news media:
- He signed up as an opposite editorial-contributing columnist, effective January 29, 2006, for New York Times.
- Starting in June 2006, he has provided commentary to Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Day to Day on National Public Radio, joining NPR's other two Senior News Analysts, Cokie Roberts and Daniel Schorr. As such, he participated in the annual NPR Fourth of July reading of the Declaration of Independence in 2007.
- Koppel makes occasional guest appearances on The Daily Show appearing in extreme close-up as a disembodied head, acting as Jon Stewart's journalistic conscience, sometimes as the replacement for the so-called "Giant Head of Brian Williams" projected on the screen behind Stewart. Koppel has jokingly insisted that "this is the actual size of head"
- Koppel has worked for BBC News as a "contributing analyst" covering the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
- On December 12, 2011 Koppel made his first appearance on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams as a reporter. He now is a special correspondent for NBC's Rock Center.
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