- Born Name: Barbara Jill Walters
- Birthday: 1929-09-25 (Year-Month-Day)
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- Children: Jacqueline Dena Guber Danforth
- Medium: Journalist Television talk show host
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Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American broadcast journalist and author, who has hosted morning television shows (Today and The View), the television newsmagazine (20/20), and co-anchor of the ABC Evening News and correspondent on ABC World News (then ABC Evening News).Walters was first known as a popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBCs Today, where she worked with Hugh Downs and later hosts Frank McGee and Jim Hartz. Walters later spent 25 years as co-host of ABCs newsmagazine 20/20. She was the first female co-anchor of network evening news, working with Harry Reasoner on the ABC Evening News and was later a correspondent for ABC World News Tonight with Charles Gibson.