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Barbara Walters
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American broadcast journalist (1929–2022)
Barbara Walters was an American broadcast journalist who had a long career in television news from the 1960s through the 2010s. She is considered a pioneering figure in broadcast journalism, particularly as one of the first women to achieve prominence as a news anchor and interviewer.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1931
- Works
- 9
Top works
- Heaven
- You rule!
- Barbara Walters best interviews
- Audition
- Audition : a memoir
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 459
- Total plays
- 1,147
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,949x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,894x
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,733x
- International Physical Activity Questionnaire: 12-Country Reliability and Validity
· 2003 · cited 17,602x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,975x
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Quotes
- “Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching.”
- “I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.”
- “A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.”
- “Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.”
- “What kind of tree are you, if you think you're a tree now?”
- “She made me laugh. I will miss her. Baba Wawa.”
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Barbara Walters 2004.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
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- Commons category
- Barbara Walters
- date of birth
- 1929-09-25
- start of work period
- 1953-00-00
- name in native language
- Barbara Walters
- social media followers
- 1430769
- birth name
- Barbara Jill Walters
- end of work period
- 2016-00-00
- date of death
- 2022-12-30
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Encyclopedic overview
Barbara Jill Walters (September 25, 1929 – December 30, 2022) 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. 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.
Walters began her career at WNBT-TV (NBC's flagship station in New York) in 1953 as writer-producer of a news-and-information program aimed at the juvenile audience, Ask the Camera, hosted by Sandy Becker. She joined the staff of the network's Today show in the early 1960s as a writer and segment producer of women's-interest stories. Her popularity with viewers led to her receiving more airtime, and in 1974 she became co-host of the program, the first woman to hold such a position on an American news program. During 1976, she continued to be a pioneer for women in broadcasting while becoming the first American female co-anchor of a network evening news program, alongside Harry Reasoner on the ABC Evening News. Walters was a correspondent, producer and co-host on the ABC news magazine 20/20 from 1979 to 2004. She became known for an annual special aired on ABC, Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People.
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