'The Rulebreaker' reveals how Barbara Walters' professional success came at personal cost Barbara Walters became an icon of the industry, rising through the ranks to become one of the country’s first ...

Barbara Walters was a television pioneer and a force in the medium since she first came on the scene. First, breaking new ground on "The Today Show," then taking her talents to ABC, where she ...

Barbara Walters broke through every barrier and had the scars to show it, cutting a path that Connie Chung, Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, Norah O'Donnell and other remarkable women in broadcasting would ...

In “The Rulebreaker,” Susan Page pays tribute to a pioneering journalist who survived being both a punchline and an icon. By Lisa Schwarzbaum Lisa Schwarzbaum is a former critic for Entertainment ...

Newscaster Barbara Walters sits in her office as she prepares for her debut on ABC's evening news program in New York on Oct. 4, 1976. (AP) Review by Lynne Olson When Walter Cronkite learned in April ...

Barbara Walters is known for breaking barriers in the world of journalism, but who was she behind the cameras? Susan Page, the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for USA Today who’s also a best-selling ...

On May 15, 1953, TV Guide ran a profile of Barbara Walters, young producer of a 15-minute children's program called "Ask the Camera." By the time she died, almost 70 years later, Barbara Walters had ...

In 1976, Barbara Walters became the first woman to co-anchor a national news show on prime time television. She was only in that role for two years, but her arrival changed news media. "She's such a ...

Barbara Walters was the first million-dollar woman on TV. But behind the scenes, the legendary interviewer and “The View” founder was a difficult and calculating star who did not have “the strongest ...