Walters was the first woman to co-anchor a national news show on prime time television. 'The path she cut is one that many of us have followed,' says biographer Susan Page, author of The Rulebreaker.
iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1246719526/1246887451" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">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.
Though they never met, Page says speaking to hundreds of Walters' friends and colleagues and watching hours of her interview tapes gave her a sense of her subject.
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