ABC reported Friday that Barbara Walters, one of the most featured women on American television as the first anchor of an evening news broadcast and one of the most prominent interviewees on television, has died at the age of 93.
Robert Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, the parent company of ABC, said on Twitter that Walters, who created the popular all-female talk show “The View” on ABC in 1997, has died. Friday at her home in New York.
Barbara Walters
During her work, which spanned five decades, Walters interviewed a group of world leaders, including the Cuban leader Fidel Castro, the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the Libyan Muammar Gaddafi and the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in addition to all US presidents and their wives since Richard Nixon and his wife Pat.
ABC reported that Walters has won 12 Emmy Awards, 11 of them while at ABC News.
Walter began her media career on NBC’s “The Today Show” in the 1960s as a writer and producer. She made history as the first female anchor to co-anchor an American evening newscast, co-presenting the ABC Nightly News with Harry Reasoner.
