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Jim Hartz, the low-key, folksy newsman who hosted the "Today" show with Barbara Walters in the mid-1970s, less than halfway through his three-decade television career, died April 17 in Fairfax County, Virginia. He was 82.

Jim Hartz, the low-key, folksy newsperson who hosted the “Today” show with Barbara Walters in the mid-1970s died April 17. He was 82.

Jim Hartz, 82, who hosted the Today show with Barbara Walters in the mid-1970s, died on April 17, 2022, of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, his wife confirmed.

His role as Barbara Walters’s on-air partner lasted only two years, but viewers knew him for three decades as a correspondent, anchor and TV host.