Barbara Walters

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Barbara Walters (June 2011)
Walters (left) during an interview with President Ford in the White House in 1976

Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929 in Boston , Massachusetts , United States ) is an American journalist and television presenter .

Life

Barbara Walters was born on September 25, 1929 in Boston as the daughter of the Jewish producer and nightclub owner Lou Walters, who had immigrated from Eastern Europe, and his wife Dena, b. Selett, born and grew up in a wealthy family. When her father later went bankrupt and had a heart attack, it was up to Walters to support her parents and her disabled sister. After graduating from high school, she studied at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers until 1953 .

Walters first worked as a secretary, then as a copywriter for various television stations (WNBC TV, WPIX, CBS TV). In 1961, she joined the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) morning's "Today Show". The first two years she worked as a copywriter again, from 1963 as a reporter. She was a regular member of the editorial team until 1974, and from 1974–1976 she herself acted as a "co-host", ie as one of the moderators of discussion groups. Barbara Walters presented the news magazine “20/20” on ABC television for almost 25 years . She and Helen Thomas were the only women in the journalist lineup in 1972 when then President Richard Nixon visited the People's Republic of China. In 1976, she became the first woman to run an evening news program on US television.

The star reporter interviewed political figures like Fidel Castro , Jiang Zemin and Vladimir Putin and brought every US president since Richard Nixon in front of the camera. Other famous interview guests were Anwar as-Sadat , Menachem Begin , the Shah of Iran and his wife Farah Diba , Margaret Thatcher , Indira Gandhi , Václav Havel , Muammar al-Gaddafi , King Hussein of Jordan , King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia , Hugo Chavez and Bashar al-Assad . Other interlocutors were Sylvester Stallone , Michael Jackson , Katharine Hepburn , Anna Wintour , Sir Laurence Olivier in 1980 and Caroline von Monaco in 1985 .

In 2004 she separated from the news magazine to concentrate entirely on special programs. She was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on June 14, 2007 . On June 11, 2007, Barbara Walters conducted a telephone interview with Paris Hilton directly from her prison cell in Lynwood .

In May 2013, Walters announced that she would retire in May 2014; However, she remains as a producer of various programs.

memoirs

supporting documents

  1. ↑ http://www.munzinger.de/search/document?index=mol-00&id=00000017656&type=text/html&query.key=74aFrW7j&template=/publikationen/lösungen/document.jsp&preview=
  2. ↑ Chris McGreal (English) . June 7, 2010. Retrieved June 9, 2010. 
  3. ↑ Caroline Casiraghi . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1985 ( online ).

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Commons : Barbara Walters  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
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SURNAME Walters, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walters, Barbara Jill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts