Barbara Walters
American broadcast journalist (1929-2022) · United States · On the map · Journalists · Died at 93
Barbara Jill Walters was an American broadcast journalist and television personality. Known for her interviewing ability and popularity with viewers, she appeared as a host of numerous television programs, including Today, the ABC Evening News, 20/20, and The View.
Barbara Walters is read about 1,632 times a day, in 53 languages.
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Gene Shalit, Walters, and Frank McGee on The Today Show, 1973
Walters with George W. Romney and Richard Nixon in 1969
Walters interviewing President Gerald Ford and Betty Ford in 1976
Walters with President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan in 1986
Walters in Washington, D.C., 2004
The View's panel (left-right: Whoopi Goldberg, Walters, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck) interview President Barack Obama on July 29, 2010
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Walters was a working journalist from 1951 until her retirement in 2014. Walters was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1989, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the NATAS in 2000 and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007.
