Journo Heroes - Barbara Walters
I was inspired to write this blog after Riley Manion's presentation about Barbara Walters. Riley describes her as a “trailblazer”. Walters will go down in history forever as one of the most influential journalists. What spoke to me so much about Barbara Walters was that she never took no for an answer and she tried until she got what she wanted. She was different from the people who had the job she wanted. She was a woman. Because she had to take on a lot of responsibilities for her family after the passing of her father, she grew very independent. Walters stepped into the real world, and became a publicity director’s assistant for a show at NBC- and there she became the youngest ever producer at that station. Something that stuck with me was: I found out her co-host Harry Reasoner did not even talk to her off the air. After receiving negative feedback from viewers, the job was taken away from her. As a female, in the 1960s, women were still not treated as equals to men - and st
