Barbara Walters

Barbara Walters

Barbara Walters is a well known journalist for ABC’s 20/20. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, where she received a bachelor’s degree in English. She began her career as a secretary moving on to radio. Gradually she worked her way to television, in 1961, where she began a career in broadcasting, as a writer for CBS News. Barbara Walters was known as the youngest producer with NBC’s New York station WNBC. For fifteen years she worked on the Today Show. Although she began as a writer, within a year she became a reporter, developing, writing, and editing her own reports and interviews. In 1976, ABC offered her a job as the evening news reporter for $1 million dollars.

Between the two stations, Barbara Walters interviewed more than 740 people. She has talked with every president since Richard Nixon, world leaders, heads of state, music legends, and movie stars. She has won numerous awards, such as The Lifetime Achievement Award, 2000, The Muse Award from NY Women in Film, etc. She was also inducted in the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame for being the most well known interviewer