In TVWeek's Insider Q&A with Diane Sawyer we learn the ABC News anchor is loving GMA, "loving it completely;" that she'd like to increase, "if I can, some of my specials in prime time;" and that she doesn't keep a diary, so don't look for a memoir.

The Insider: Speaking of looking back, it's been a week in which Barbara Walters' memoir has made headlines screaming from every tabloid show and cover. Can you envision writing a memoir?

Ms. Sawyer: No.

The Insider: Can you envision having to promote a memoir?

Ms. Sawyer: Ummmm, no. But I don't keep a diary. I don't tend to assemble things. I also don't have Barbara's amazing history. I think she has written such a beautiful and courageous book, because she and I had a long lunch about her book and what she was doing, and I know that she did it in part because she thought, "Here all these years, people have let me into their real lives, but I can't write a book that isn't about my real life."

ABC's Barbara Walters made two high-profile appearances to promote her new book, "Audition," last night, in an ABC News special at 10pm and on The O'Reilly Factor on FNC at 8pmET.

On ABC, the special finished third (7.4 million viewers), behind CBS' CSI: NY (12.6 million) and NBC's Law & Order (8.8 million). Walters last special, "Live to be 150 — Can You Do It?" which she anchored drew more than 10 million viewers in April.

Last night's O'Reilly Factor performed well in the ratings, with 656,000 viewers in the A25-54 demo and 2,879,000 Total Viewers, making it the number one program in cable news for the night. FNC had more total viewers at 8pmET than the other three network's combined.

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The U.S. News and World Report's Paul Bedard starts a new biz newser controversy, calling ABC News financial correspondent Bianna Golodryga the, "new TV money honey."

"When (Maria) Bartiromo outgrew the sexist title, others like Erin Burnett were set up as successors, but none have won the Washington kudos like Golodryga," he writes. Wait, Bartiromo outgrew the title? Last we heard she was trademarking the term.

Bedard writes that Golodryga was, "one of the head-turners at the recent White House Correspondents' Association Dinner and the post-parties held by Bloomberg and Vanity Fair."

An anonymous administration official gives the temperate response: "She's smoking."

Tonight's Barbara Walters special (the one about Barbara, not by Barbara) included cameos from her cross-network colleagues, including Tom Brokaw talking about Barbara's legs, and Lesley Stahl talking about how Barbara "brought serious magazine journalism up against sitcoms and dramas, and made it succeed." One problem, Stahl's first name was misspelled. It's Lesley. I know, because I misspelled it myself more than once on this blog.

The Barbara Walters publicity tour continues over the next few days, as she'll appear tonight, this time as the subject rather than host, in a one-hour ABC prime time special. Charles Gibson anchors, "Audition: Barbara Walters' Journey," at 10pmET.

On Monday night, Walters sits down in her first prime time live interview, with Larry King on CNN at 9pmET.

One stop we're hearing Walters is not scheduled to make is on the set of her former employer, NBC's Today show.

Walters book sales of, "Audition," have started strong after just one day of release. The book has gone to press five times already and over 725,000 copies are now in print. It was the #1 book on both Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com yesterday.

• Related: GalleyCat raises the "too much Walters?" question.

> Update: Before the Gibson special on ABC, Walters heads over to FNC for an interview on The O'Reilly Factor at 8pmET.

(photo of Walters and then-president Gerald Ford, courtesy of Barbara Walters/ABCNews.com)

ABC News will open several mini-bureaus in September 2008 in an effort to expand their news-gathering resources while training future journalists.

The "ABC News On Campus" program will open bureaus within the journalism departments at several top American universities allowing students to participate directly in ABC News programming. Campuses participating in the program include Syracuse University, the University of Florida and Arizona State University. ABC News on Campus will be unlike one of the education initiatives in which NBC News is involved: the partnership with the New York Film Academy in that students will work as staffers in each of the bureaus, contributing story ideas and using equipment provided by ABC.

ABC News President David Westin said this morning in an internal email, "This is a great opportunity for these students to learn about the news industry and for us at ABC News to help nurture these bright young journalists."

Dona Hayes, chair of the broadcast journalism department at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, tells TVNewser, "I think it's a well thought out program and we're just really excited. It's a really unique program for our students to be a part of."

The draw for Newhouse was the access the program will give students. "They made it very clear that this is going to be a well-supported project," she said. "It's not just equipment, but access to folks at ABC who will be talking to students."

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Developing: TVNewser has learned ABC News is set to make a major announcement tomorrow morning regarding a partnership with several universities and their journalism programs. We'll have more details as we get them. Over the last year, NBC News has also also gotten into the education initiative game launching programs for students ranging from middle school to post-graduate status.

Good Morning America's 7 Wonders of America kicked off today, with anchor Robin Roberts at the Washington Mall in Washington, D.C. Joining Roberts were two special guests, President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. Insiders tell TVNewser this was just the second ever live morning show interview of the President — the first being with GMA's Diane Sawyer after Hurricane Katrina.

The interview focused on the economy and gas prices, 2008 presidential predictions and of course, the wonder of the locale.

"Lincoln is my favorite president, of course, other than my dad," said Bush during the interview.

Notably absent from the ABC show this morning was weather anchor Sam Champion, who was said to be en route to the next Wonder location for tomorrow morning. Any guesses for the long, America-based trek?

> Update: A TVNewser tipster finds at least one more live interview, with NBC's Matt Lauer.

From the Janet Maslin review of Barbara Walters' 612-page memoir Audition, out tomorrow.

Walters "has spent more than five decades shattering glass ceilings in the world of television news, using social skills and ladylike persistence just as handily as she has used on-the-air reportorial acumen."

What emerges is the portrait of a deftly calculating woman with an impeccable sense of timing, which is why she has largely retreated from the battle for big-name interviews. When ABC had to decide whether Ms. Walters's last piece on "20/20" would be with President Bush or with a teacher who went to prison for her sexual relationship with an under-age boy, the child molester won out. 'I rest my case,' Ms. Walters writes."

• Related: USA Today's Review of Audition...

• Earlier: An Affair To Write About...

This Barbara Walters memoir is the gift that's going to keep on giving...all month long!

During a taping of an upcoming Oprah Winfrey show, the veteran ABC Newswoman admits to having an affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke. In the interview, to air Tuesday on Oprah, Walters remembers the Massachusetts Republican as "exciting" and "brilliant." The affair lasted several years in the 1970s.

Brooke was the first African-American popularly elected to the Senate. The AP obtained a transcript of the Oprah show in which Walters admits that public knowledge of their affair could have ruined his career as well as hers.