Barbara Walters | $12 Million

Broadcast journalist Barbara Walters now has a net worth of $170 million. She is credited for hosting a number of television shows, including 20/20, The View, and the ABC Evening News. Walters started her TV career as a researcher and writer for The Today Show in the early ’60s, and by the following decade, she became the show’s co-host.

What makes Walters an unstoppable force in the world of journalism is that she was the first woman to co-host a TV news program in the U.S. Another feat she has achieved is that she was also the first woman to co-anchor an evening news show in 1976. While she retired from The View in May 2014, she occasionally returned as a guest anchor. Throughout her long and successful career, Walters has interviewed countless world leaders, including Margaret Thatcher, Fidel Castro, Vladimir Putin, and several U.S. presidents.