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Walters was the first woman to host the "Today" show and was also the first broadcast journalist to earn over $1 million a year.
ABC News correspondent Barbara Walters received the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at the Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum last night.
Marvin L. Kalb, Murrow professor of press and public policy at the Kennedy School, presented the award, which is given annually to a journalist who has enriched political discourse. Kalb said Walters has "broken barriers" in the world of television news.
In her acceptance speech, Walters spoke about the concept of leadership, drawing from her numerous interviews with celebrities and world leaders.
ABC News has hit troubles on several fronts. After eight years of ratings dominance, Peter Jennings' evening newscast, World News Tonight, has been overtaken in recent weeks by the snazzier, more cleverly packaged NBC Nightly News. Creatively too, ABC's flagship newscast seems adrift, first softening the show to combat...