Jan 27, 2025 · After spending over a decade with NBC's Today show, where she earned the endearing title of “Today girl,” Walters made history in 1976 as the first female co-anchor of a …

Dec 31, 2022 · When Barbara Walters was promoted to co-anchor of TODAY in 1974, she became the first woman in the show’s history to hold this title. Some 48 years later, both of …

Dec 31, 2022 · When she went before the camera, it was in the guise of what was then called a “Today Girl.” She reported on Paris Fashion Week and dressed up in a Playboy Bunny …

By 1961 she became associated with the NBC-TV early morning program The Today Show as a writer/researcher and then she began to appear on camera as the “Today girl.” This label was …

Dec 31, 2022 · Walters, who died Friday at age 93, began her onscreen TV career in 1961 on "The Today Show" as a glorified morning model called, without a trace of irony, "The Today …

Dec 31, 2022 · An icon of journalism, Walters busted barrier after barrier for women in the field, joining NBC’s Today show in 1964 without her starlet predecessors’ diminutive title of “ Today …

Meet the first woman to co-anchor American evening news, introduced by (author of The Book of Awesome Women Writers) Becca Anderson. Barbara Walters once said, “I was the kind …

Dec 31, 2022 · Walters transformed the world of journalism, paving the way for women in television as the first woman to be named co-host of the TODAY show.

Jan 1, 2023 · Walters, who died Friday at age 93, had spent more than five decades in front of the camera and had become a titan of the medium: lauded for the subjects she scored, criticized …

Dec 31, 2022 · Barbara referred to her “Today Girls” predecessors as “tea-pourers,” whose “major requirement on the Today show was to look wide awake and pretty at 7:00 am … In that ‘don’t …

Dec 31, 2022 · Meant to join Today as a temporary replacement for "Today Girl" Maureen O'Sullivan — "They hired me for 13 weeks and I stayed on for 13 years," she joked — Walters …

When she went before the camera, it was in the guise of what was then called a “Today Girl.” She reported on Paris Fashion Week and dressed up in a Playboy Bunny costume — but soon …

She joined the staff of the network's Today show in the early 1960s as a writer and segment producer of women's-interest stories. Her popularity with viewers led to her receiving more …

Jan 2, 2023 · Following the death of Barbara Walters, TODAY looks back at some of her most memorable moments on the broadcast where she began her trailblazing career.

Feb 13, 2025 · While co-hosting TODAY with Jenna & Friends on Feb. 13, the comedian recalled the sketch from over two decades ago where she played broadcast journalist Barbara Walters …