Barbara Walters
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 Sept. 25, 1929 in Boston / Massachusetts as the daughter of immigrants from Eastern Europe Jewish producer and nightclub owner Lou Walters and his wife, Dena, born Selett, and initially grew up in a wealthy family. When her father later went bankrupt and suffered a heart attack, it was W., to support her parents and her disabled sister. After graduating from high school, she studied until 1953 at the Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville.
Walters worked as a secretary, then as a writer for several television stations ( WNBC TV, WPIX, CBS TV). In 1961 she joined the morning's "Today Show" the " National Broadcasting Company" ( NBC). The first two years she worked as a copywriter again, since 1963 as a reporter. Until 1974 she was a regular on the editorial board, from 1974 to 1976, she served herself as " co- host ", ie as one of the leading facilitators of conversation discussion boards. Barbara Walters presented almost 25 years, the news magazine "20/20 " on the ABC television. You and Helen Thomas in 1972 was the only women journalists in the convoy, when then- President Richard Nixon visited the People's Republic of China. In 1976, she led the first woman in the U.S. television through an evening news program.
The Star reporter interviewed political variables such as Fidel Castro, Jiang Zemin and Vladimir Putin and took every U.S. president since Richard Nixon before the camera. Other famous interview guests were Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, the Shah of Iran and his wife Empress Farah Pahlavi, 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 Michael Jackson, Katharine Hepburn, Anna Wintour, and in 1980 Sir Laurence Olivier.
In 2004 she separated from the news magazine, in order to concentrate on special broadcasts. She was awarded on 14 June 2007 with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On June 11, 2007 Barbara Walters conducted an interview by phone with Paris Hilton directly from their prison cell in Lynwood.
In May 2013 Walters announced that she will go in May 2014 in center, but it remains as a producer of various shows.
Memoirs
- 2008: Audition: A Memoir. AAKnopf, New York City, USA, ISBN 978-0-307266460.