Barbara Walters

Barbara Walters was an American broadcast journalist and television personality known for interviewing prominent figures and cohosting ABC’s 20/20 and The View.

Hugh Downs: Hugh Downs was an American radio and television broadcaster who cohosted 20/20 with Barbara Walters. Their long partnership made 20/20 a defining chapter in Walters’s career.
Frost–Nixon interviews: The Frost–Nixon interviews were a 1977 television series of conversations between David Frost and former U.S. president Richard Nixon. They offer a contrasting model of the high-stakes political interview Walters also practiced.
20/20: 20/20 is an American television newsmagazine that premiered on ABC in 1978. Walters joined the program as a correspondent and later coanchored it with Hugh Downs.
Women in television journalism: Women in television journalism are reporters, anchors, and correspondents who produce and present television news. Walters’s prominent anchoring career challenged barriers women faced in network news.
Meredith Vieira: Meredith Vieira is an American journalist and television personality who succeeded Barbara Walters as moderator of The View. Vieira took over the moderator role Walters helped establish.
Katharine Hepburn interview: Barbara Walters’s 1981 television interview with actress Katharine Hepburn became known for Hepburn’s question about what kind of tree she would be. The exchange exemplifies Walters’s ability to turn an unusual prompt into a revealing moment.
Today: Today is an American morning television program that premiered on NBC in 1952. Walters became the program’s first female cohost in 1974.
Celebrity journalism: Celebrity journalism is reporting and interviewing focused on public figures in entertainment, politics, and other fields. Walters helped make the interviewer’s persona part of celebrity coverage.
Joy Behar: Joy Behar is an American comedian and television personality, and an original cohost of The View. Behar’s outspoken panel presence helped shape the show Walters created.
Barbra Streisand interview: Barbara Walters’s 1991 interview with Barbra Streisand was a televised conversation with the American singer, actor, and filmmaker. This high-profile celebrity conversation illustrates Walters’s entertainment interviewing.

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