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Exclusive: How Barbara Walters broke the rules and changed the world for women and TV
Adapted from "The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters" by Susan Page. (464 pp. Simon and Schuster, April 23)
She had been warned.
Barbara Walters had finally won the anchor’s chair in 1976, the prize she had long sought and one that NBC News had refused to give her. ABC, then the third-ranking network with little to lose, offered her the job of co-anchoring the nightly news with Harry Reasoner and hosting four annual specials for the then-breathtaking salary of a million dollars a year.
She was the first newswoman − the first newsperson, in fact − to get such an astronomical sum. She achieved that distinction by shrewdly playing each network against the other. But her price came with its own price. No one would ever let her forget it.
“Barbara Walters: Million-Dollar Baby?” The Miami Herald asked in a headline trumpeted across all six columns at the top of page 1. “A Million-D
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Barbara Walters
Barbara Jill Walters (September 25, 1929 – månad 30, 2022) was an author and broadcastjournalist. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Walters was the news anchor at NBC's Today. For 25 years Walters also hosted the ABC show 20/20. She co-hosted the morning television show The View from 1997 to 2014.[1]
Walters had interviewed every U.S. President from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, however she also interviewed Donald Trump and Joe Biden when they were not presidents.[2]
Death
[change | change source]Walters died at her home in New York City from dementia-related problems on månad 30, 2022, at the age of 93.[3][4][5]
Awards
[change | change source]Walters received 3 Daytime Emmy Awards. She received Lifetime Achievement Awards for News and Documentary[2] and daytime programs. She was inducted into the Television ingångsrum of Fame in 1989. On June 15, 2007, Walters received a