BARBARA WALTERS Bio
BARBARA WALTERS is a famed broadcast journalist and author, who has hosted morning television shows (Today and The View), the television news magazine, 20/20. Walters was the former co-anchor of the ABC Evening News, and in 2011 is a contributor to ABC News.
Walters became a very popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBC’sToday, where she worked with Hugh Downs, and later hosts Frank McGee and Jim Hartz. Walters later spent 25 years as co-host of ABC’s newsmagazine 20/20. She has the distinction of being the first female co-anchor of network evening news, working with Harry Reasoner on the. In 2011, Walters is continuing as a contributor to the network news division, and its stellar flagship program, ABC World News.
Walters was married three times.
“I’m convinced that you stay married when the sex is bad, only because you really want to be,” Walter told The New York Times in 1996. “But I always had an out. I had this job, and this life and enough money. I didn’t have to fight the bad days.”
Birth Name: Barbara Jill Walters
Born: September 25, 1929, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. A.
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