BY JOANNE A CALITRI | OCTOBER 18, 2022
With one of the most world-recognized names in TV, magazine, and print news media, Rona Barrett fashioned her career on well-researched and deep-dive interviews, asking the questions no one would have at the time. Barrett broke many glass ceilings in the media industry for women and as a person with muscular dystrophy. She took on causes ahead of her time, such as the unpopular-at-the-time War on Drugs, in entertainment. An original cast member of Good Morning America, and host of TV specials for ABC and NBC, she retired from entertainment reporting in the early 1990s.