Barbara Walters gave me a gift I still cherish | Opinion
FILE - Newswoman Barbara Walters is seen on NBC-TV's Today Show on June 3, 1976. Walters, a superstar and pioneer in TV news, has died, according to ABC News on Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. She was 93. The curve ball slammed into my lofty career goals one morning in the wee hours when I was anchoring the news at Channel 8.
I hid my pregnancy for as long as I could at WFAA, determined to take my six-week maternity leave and get right back to reporting. My daughter’s birth would be a blip, I thought, barely a break in my stride. At ABC, I was privileged to work with the women who opened doors for the rest of us: Diane Sawyer, Connie Chung and Walters.offices at 147 Columbus Ave. Walters was researching a story about several children who’d been kidnapped by their father and spirited away to a foreign country. Something similar had happened to me as a child and she wanted to hear about my experience.
I had resisted relocating to Washington or New York, where reporters stayed at work until the broadcast ended at 7:30 p.m. and then boarded trains home to the suburbs. Was there even time for bedtime stories? Looking back, it was Walters who helped answer Lauren’s question. One day, I was called to New York on short notice to appear on theA limousine sped me from La Guardia to the Times Square studio, where I met Walters on the set. While ABC staff finessed lights, hair and makeup, she turned her natural curiosity once again on me.I shook my head. I never lingered in cities where I worked.
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