Barbara Walters is a retired American broadcast journalist, television personality and author. Walters has appeared on many television programs including but not limited to, Today, The View, ABC Evening News and 20/20.
Walters has interviewed the likes of Fidel Castro, Margaret Thatcher, Vladimir Putin, Indira Gandhi and the Shah of Iran to name of a few.
Walters attended Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, and graduated in 1951. She briefly worked at an advertising agency, then became an assistant to the publicity director for NYC's affiliated TV station. Shortly after, she was hired as a news and public affairs producer and writer by the CBS TV network.
And in 1961, she became a writer for the popular NBC morning show 'Today' where on occasion she would do on-air feature stories.
Walters was the first female co-host of a major evening news and the first female morning co-host. She was a skilled interviewer asking questions that drew out the personality of the interviewee and garnered the emotional responses from guests that spectators enjoy because it makes it real and authentic.
When people think of examples of journalists that do the job right, she is on the tip of their tongue and at the forefront of their mind. And not only does she do her job well, but she's done it for so long.
Walters has an autobiography titled "Audition" (2008). She named it that because she felt like she had to prove herself over and over again.
Barbara Walters truly set the tone and set an example for female journalists to follow but also for all journalist to follow, regardless of gender.
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