Barbara Walters

Working Women Owe Barbara Walters Sincere Thanks

Posted on 05/13/2013 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Bulletin Today | EntertainmentFive decades before Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg was telling women to lean in, Barbara Walters was doing just that and more.  All women in the work world owe her respect, but women in communications owe a particular debt to Walters, who will retire next year at the age of 84. In the 1960s, those Mad Men days when women were either invisible or second class citizens in the work force, Walters, who began as a segment producer for “women’s stories”, …

Barbara Walters Is Retiring? 5 of Her Greatest Interviews

Posted on 03/29/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin TodayBoth Deadline.com and the Huffington Post, citing unnamed sources, are reporting that iconic TV journalist Barbara Walters, 83, will soon announce that she will retire in May 2014. If those reports turn out to be right, it’ll be the conclusion of a career that spanned more than half a century, during which Walters rose from the lowly post of “Today Girl” on NBC’s Today show to being  the first woman co-anchor of a network news broadcast at ABC News in 1976, and a star of …

Barbara Walters Back at ‘The View’ After Weeks on the Mend

Posted on 03/5/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | EntertainmentBy Frazier Moore, Television Writer, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Walters is back. Sidelined for six weeks by chickenpox and a concussion, Walters returned to ABC’s “The View” on Monday. She got a thunderous welcome from the studio audience and co-panelists Sherri Shepherd, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Joy Behar, as well as well-wishers Regis Philbin and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who stopped by. “After a lot of scratching and rest, I am fine and I am healthy,” …