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 and reporter worldwide.

Twenty five years later, Ms. Walters decides to end her anchoring on 20/20. She felt it was time to leave, and what better time to leave than on top. As of now, Barbara Walters is co-owner, co-host, and co-executive producer of the View. The View is a show where woman discuss daily issues and events, giving their opinions and conversation. They include hot topics in the news, celebrity interviews, and general entertainment.

Barbara has been married three times and adopted a baby girl. Not only was she a successful mother but she donates $1 million dollars to a gallery to be named for her in new Heimbold Visual Arts Center at Sarah Lawrence College. As an interviewer she was never nervous, but felt that everyone had something worth saying.