31/12/2022
Remembering a journalistic giant:
Barbara Walters was an inspiration for inspiring journalists everywhere, including myself. Walter’s television career began with WNBT, an NBC affiliate, now WNBC, doing press releases. Walter’s on air network career began with Today in 1961 as a writer, today girl, correspondent, and, when Frank McGee passed in 1974, the first female co-anchor. A few years later Walters went to ABC. Eventually, Walters became co host of the ABC evening news, produced and co-hosted 20/20, host ABC specials like presidential inaugurations, the 9/11 attacks, and her 10 most fascinating people. In the final part of Walter’s television career, she co hosted, co-created, and co-produced The View, which premiered in 1997. Walter’s career spanned over six decades. In those six decades, Walters was known for her many interviews with all kinds of stars, politicians, political leaders, killers, and anything else I missed. Walter’s legacy holds with this generation and the next, which Walter’s acknowledged in 2014, when she retired. Walter’s final ABC appearance was in 2015, while the 60th Anniversary of Today in 2012 was her last Today Show appearance. Born in September 1929, Walters was 93. Rest in peace Barbara Waters. Thank you for being an inspiration for journalists everywhere.
Photo courtesy goes to ABC News.
