Barbara Walters has died at 93.
Making a name in an industry dominated by men became an unspoken routine for Walters who began working forco-host, Hugh Downs, and solidified what became her legacy.
Walters was born on September 25, 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts. She grew up in Boston, Miami and New York, the latter of which is where she launched her journalism career in the early 1950s. A year after earning a B.A. degree from Sarah Lawrence College, Walters landed a job in the publicity department of NBC affiliate WNBT-TV. She moved on to WPIX, before becoming a writer on CBS’as a writer and regular correspondent. She became the first female co-anchor of the long-running morning show in 1974, following the death of anchor Frank McGee.as co-anchor to Harry Reasoner with whom she had a rocky work relationship because he didn’t want a co-anchor.
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