Barbara Walters

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Trailblazing journalist Barbara Walters has died at 93 (NPR)

Over more than a half century, the driven celebrity journalist built one of the most remarkable careers in TV news. She was 93.

After being widely mocked for asking actress Katherine Hepburn what kind of tree she would want to be, Walters defended herself by noting it was Hepburn who made the comparison. "She loved not only making serious news but she loved the lighter side. She was married four times to three men, had a rocky five-year affair with then Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, and dated other prominent figures. She was the first million dollars a year network anchor. That impression was the price of success. In 1974, she became the show's first female co-host. [interview was the first Assad gave to an American journalist ](http://abcnews.go.com/International/transcript-abcs-barbara-walters-interview-syrian-president-bashar/story?id=15099152)since the uprising began in his country. Barbara Walters was born on September 25, 1929, just a month before the Wall Street crash that kicked off the Great Depression. in Libya of Moammar Gadhafi killed," Walters said during the interview. In 1999, she scored the first big interview with Monica Lewinsky. [The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2006](http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2716887&page=1)" saying, "Those lips, those eyes, that body. And if you remember Walters as a journalist who blurred the lines between news and entertainment, there is some truth to that.

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Barbara Walters, trailblazing TV icon, dies at 93 (ABC News)

Walters, the trailblazing television news broadcaster and longtime ABC News anchor, has died at 93. Barbara ...

With "The View," she created a forum for women of different backgrounds and views to come together and discuss the latest hot topics in the news, a format that has since been widely imitated by other networks. In 2000, Oprah Winfrey echoed Jennings' speech when she presented Walters a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In 1994, she launched the "Most Fascinating People" special, which aired every December and afforded her the opportunity to chat with the year's top newsmakers. Toward the end of the interview, Walters asked Lewinsky, "What will you tell your children when you have them?" In her memoir, Walters wrote that she had dark hair, a sallow complexion and was often told she was skinny. "I told him that what we most profoundly disagreed on was the meaning of freedom." For years, she hosted an annual Oscars special, in which she interviewed Academy Award nominees and was known for making a number of them reveal deeply personal information and even cry. "No one was more surprised than I," she said of her on-air career. She would become the program's first female co-host in 1974, and won her first Emmy award the following year for Outstanding Talk Show Host. She was a one-of-a-kind reporter who landed many of the most important interviews of our time, from heads of state to the biggest celebrities and sports icons. "Much of the need I had to prove myself, to achieve, to provide, to protect, can be traced to my feelings about Jackie. She will be missed by all of us at The Walt Disney Company, and we send our deepest condolences to her daughter, Jacqueline,” Iger said in a statement Friday.

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Barbara Walters, legendary news anchor, has died at 93 (CNN Philippines)

"Barbara Walters passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by loved ones. She lived her life with no regrets. She was a trailblazer not only for female journalists but for all women," Walters' spokesperson Cindi Berger told CNN in a statement.

If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word," she once observed. In 1974, she was officially named co-anchor of the show. From the bottom of my heart, to all of you with whom I have worked and who have watched and been by my side, I can say: 'Thank you.' " Her shows, some of which she produced, were some of the highest-rated of their type and spawned a number of imitators. In 1976, Walters joined ABC News as the first female anchor on an evening news program. She was a trailblazer not only for female journalists but for all women," Walters' spokesperson Cindi Berger told CNN in a statement.

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Television broadcaster, news anchor Barbara Walters dies at 93 ... (Reuters)

Barbara Walters, one of American television's most prominent interviewers and the first woman to anchor an evening news broadcast, has died at 93, ABC News ...

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Barbara Walters Is Remembered as a Trailblazer in Journalism (The New York Times)

Print reporters, broadcasters, celebrities and others paid tribute to the legendary news anchor.

“As the first female national news anchor, she opened the door to endless possibilities for so many girls who wanted to work in TV, myself included,” Ms. [said on Twitter ](https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1609018990742962176)that Ms. “She cared about the truth and she made us care too. Walters as an “American institution.” “She held them accountable,” he wrote on Twitter. Walters called to offer her a job on “20/20.” She said it was an honor to share the set. Walters’s “hard hitting questions & welcoming demeanor made her a household name and leader in American journalism.” [Star Jones](https://twitter.com/StarJonesEsq/status/1609022812009955328?s=20&t=xB9wMlztYRYx1SKWtcf6dQ), one of the original co-hosts of “The View,” wrote: “I owe Barbara Walters more than I could ever repay. Walters as a mentor and a friend. Fortunately, she inspired many other journalists to be just as unrelenting.” Maria Shriver, a former NBC News anchor and California first lady, described Ms. Journalists across the country recalled on Friday night the effect that Ms. “So many women broke into the news business because she did her job well,” Ms.

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In the Last Act of Her Groundbreaking Career, Barbara Walters ... (TIME)

Though it doesn't define her groundbreaking career, the impact of a show in which women debate current events shouldn't be underestimated.

In the world of The View, women—even women who vote for the same candidates or represent the same generation—are never a monolith. But its insistence on taking women seriously changed daytime TV just as profoundly as her ascendance as a serious woman in the anchor’s seat changed the face of broadcast news. It’s why I secretly tuned in during high-school vacations in the late ’90s, as a teen too angsty to stomach the saccharine of Kathie Lee Gifford, and why I still occasionally watch on slow work days two decades later, as an adult whose appetite for its daytime competitors and cable-news counterparts vanished long ago. That, more than anything else, is the legacy Walters brought to The View in 1997 and left with it in 2014. And they set a tone for coverage of the show and its stars that persists more than two decades later. It’s true that Walters wasn’t the first to introduce serious subjects into the realm of daytime coffee talk; Oprah and Phil Donahue deserve the credit for that. As the show grew more popular—a shift that paralleled the public’s increasing fixation on then-President Bill Clinton’s dalliance with Monica Lewinsky, one that played to the panel’s strengths by virtue of its combination of sex and politics—tabloids and late-night writers picked cohosts to scrutinize. “The last thing I was thinking about was daytime television.” But in 1997 ABC had a hole in its morning schedule and asked her for ideas. And doesn’t it just figure that a woman who clawed her way out of the pink-collar daytime trenches would finish up her career at a table cluttered with coffee mugs in ABC’s 11 a.m. Over the course of a career spanning more than half a century that eventually brought her to the forefront of 20/20 and dozens of high-profile primetime specials, she coaxed revelatory insights out of the world’s most powerful heroes, villains and stars. But in the final decades of her singular career, Walters made another crucial contribution that is sure to outlive her: she created The View. An icon of journalism, Walters busted barrier after barrier for women in the field, joining NBC’s Today show in 1964 without her starlet predecessors’ diminutive title of “Today Girl” and building a reputation that led ABC to hire her away, in 1976, as the first woman to co-anchor a national network’s evening news program.

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Barbara Walters, legendary news anchor, has died at 93 (CNN)

Barbara Walters, the pioneering TV journalist whose interviewing skills made her one of the most prominent figures in broadcasting, has died, ...

If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word,” she once observed. Two years later she became, for a time, the best-known person in television when she left “Today” to join ABC as the first woman to co-anchor a network evening newscast, signing for a then-startling $1 million a year. Her shows, some of which she produced, were some of the highest-rated of their type and spawned a number of imitators. Walters began her national broadcast career in 1961 as a reporter, writer and panel member for NBC’s “Today” show before being promoted to co-hdst in 1974. Walters, though, was no slacker in terms of landing major interviews, including presidents, world leaders and almost every imaginable celebrity, with a well-earned reputation for bringing her subjects to tears. She was a trailblazer not only for female journalists but for all women,” Walters’ spokesperson Cindi Berger told CNN in a statement.

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Pioneering U.S. television journalist Barbara Walters dead at 93 (Reuters)

Barbara Walters, one of the most visible women on U.S. television as the first female anchor on an American network evening news broadcast and one of TV's ...

In 1997, Walters launched "The View" on ABC, a popular roundtable discussion show for women that was sometimes riven by disputes with her co-hosts Star Jones and Rosie O'Donnell. Being interviewed by Walters on "20/20" or on her numerous specials became a distinction - and guaranteed exposure - for her subjects. After 13 years on "Today," Walters was given an unprecedented $1 million annual salary to move to rival network ABC in 1976 and make history as the first woman co-anchor on a U.S. She also had high-profile boyfriends such as Alan Greenspan, former head of the Federal Reserve, and John Warner, who would later become a senator from Virginia. Walters became so prominent that her star quality sometimes overshadowed the people she was questioning. "These two men were really quite brutal to me and it was not pleasant," Walters told the San Francisco Examiner. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, she worked in public relations before joining NBC's "Today" show as a writer and segment producer in 1961. Her unwilling partner, Harry Reasoner, made his disdain for Walters obvious even when they were on the air. Walters said the spoof bothered her, until her daughter told her to lighten up. Celebrity interviews also were an important part of Walters' repertoire, and for 29 years she hosted a pre-Oscars interview program featuring Academy Award nominees. In a broadcast career spanning five decades, Walters interviewed an array of world leaders, including Cuba's Fidel Castro, Britain's Margaret Thatcher, Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi, Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein, Russian presidents Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, and every U.S. WASHINGTON, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Barbara Walters, one of the most visible women on U.S.

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The Best of Barbara Walters (The New York Times)

Walters was a broadcasting trailblazer who helped develop many modern TV templates. Here are some of the most memorable moments from her influential career.

[behind-the-scenes drama](https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/elisabeth-hasselbeck-quit-the-view-listen-fight-barbara-walters-audio-1203180312/) — [arguments](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc4SvJdfDZc), a revolving door of panelists, hosts [storming off](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVrR2j7uwjs) the air — has occasionally overshadowed the show itself. These high-profile [conversations](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuDnX63GSA8) spawned multiple spinoffs, including nearly 30 years of highly rated [Oscar-night programs](https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/arts/television/04walters.html), starting in 1981; the annual [“10 Most Fascinating People” specials](https://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/barbara-walters-fascinating-people-began-21272019), starting in 1993; and a series of [intermittent one-off interviews](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsL-QFAzRkw&app=desktop), such as with [Patrick Swayze](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsL-QFAzRkw&app=desktop). [former President Richard Nixon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZk2xuJN8kQ). In the late 1970s, she went to Cuba for an [extensive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC6xcQx4l7Y) [interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC6xcQx4l7Y) with Fidel Castro (drawing the attention of the C.I.A. Trump](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji3qna9ZVgs) (when Trump was still a candidate). (Walters [often](https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/barbara-walters-retirement-2014-tv-trailblazer-reveals-top-19175060) [cited](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXh4_BUZwHI) this as the favorite of her interviews.) [move](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQHQ7nfwK4I) to [ABC](https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/barbara-walters-debuts-abc-news-1976-69034551) as the first female co-anchor of a nightly network newscast wasn’t universally applauded. Her “ABC Evening News” co-host, [Harry Reasoner](https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/07/obituaries/harry-reasoner-68-newscaster-known-for-his-wry-wit-is-dead.html), [didn’t think so](https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/13/archives/the-showdown-at-abc-news-behind-the-personality-conflict-between.html) and [rarely](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU5Fb0E0ZAk) [hid](https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/video/barbara-walters-risks-failures-23760251) his contempt on-camera. She flourished away from the studio as a [roving reporter and interviewer](https://www.nytimes.com/1978/04/20/archives/abc-news-shifting-center-to-capital-she-stays-in-new-york-deskborne.html). [Aline Saarinen](https://www.nytimes.com/1972/07/15/archives/aline-saarinen-art-critic-dies-at-58.html). [Henry Kissinger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVNaQrJv4sU), [Prince Philip](https://twitter.com/todayshow/status/860210439136960515?lang=en), [Phyllis Schlafly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjrP0NFHKAE)) and showbiz celebrities ( [Judy Garland](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHJujYMvY30), Barbra Streisand, [Bette Midler](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9jwFEu9mNQ)). [co-host](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeWjVLwV3Zk) until 1974, when she became the first woman to earn that title.

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US TV news legend Barbara Walters dead at 93 (Manila Bulletin)

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Pioneering television journalist Barbara Walters, who upended a male-dominated industry as the first woman to anchor an evening news show ...

Two years later, she would join ABC. Walters became the first woman to anchor a US evening news program when she joined “ABC Evening News” in 1976, earning the then-unprecedented salary of one million dollars a year. Her news career began in earnest in 1961 when she joined NBC’s breakfast news and entertainment show “Today.”

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Remembering Disney Legend Barbara Walters - The Walt Disney ... (The Walt Disney Company)

Disney Legend Barbara Walters, the pioneering television journalist who spent 38 years at ABC News, passed away this evening at her home in New York.

She also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She became a co-host of the program without the official title in 1963, but in 1974, NBC formally designated her as the program’s first female co-host. After 25 years as host and chief correspondent of ABC News’ 20/20, Walters left the show in 2004, but she remained an active member of the news division and network for years thereafter. She made journalism history with the first joint interview with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin in 1977. She not only interviewed the world’s most fascinating figures, but she became a part of their world. I had the pleasure of calling Barbara a colleague for more than three decades, but more importantly, I was able to call her a dear friend.

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Factbox: Key facts about pioneering broadcast journalist Barbara ... (Reuters)

The following are key facts about the life and career of pioneering broadcast journalist Barbara Walters, the first woman to anchor an American network ...

She said McGee tried to restrict her contributions on "Today" and that Reasoner was openly resentful of her presence at the anchor desk. She was teamed with on "ABC Evening News" with Harry Reasoner until 1978 and was paid an unprecedented $1 million a year for her work on the news show and special programs. She appeared on the show regularly and often had to mediate controversies stirred by co-hosts Star Jones and Rosie O'Donnell. * Walters started at NBC's "Today" show as a writer in 1961 and in 1976 became the first woman to co-anchor a network evening news broadcast on U.S. Hepburn's answer to the question was an oak. * Walters was born in Boston on Sept.

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Pioneering U.S. television journalist Barbara Walters dies at 93 (The Japan Times)

In a broadcast career spanning five decades, Walters interviewed an array of world leaders, including Cuba's Fidel Castro and Britain's Margaret Thatcher.

The circumstances of her death were not given. WASHINGTON – Barbara Walters, one of the most visible women on U.S. In a broadcast career spanning five decades, Walters interviewed an array of world leaders, including Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi, Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein, Russian presidents Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, and every U.S.

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Pioneering US television journalist Barbara Walters dead at 93 (Rappler)

Walters made broadcast history as the first woman co-anchor on a US evening newscast.

In 1997, Walters started The View on ABC, a popular roundtable discussion show for women that was sometimes riven by disputes with her co-hosts Star Jones and Rosie O’Donnell. After her unhappy run on the ABC Evening News ended in 1978, Walters established herself on the network’s prime-time news magazine show 20/20 and stayed with the program for 25 years. Walters became so prominent that her star quality sometimes overshadowed the people she was questioning. “These two men were really quite brutal to me and it was not pleasant,” Walters told the San Francisco Examiner. Her unwilling partner, Harry Reasoner, made his disdain for Walters obvious even when they were on the air. Walters said the spoof bothered her, until her daughter told her to lighten up.

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Barbara Walters obituary (The Guardian)

Journalist who made US television history as the first female co-anchor of a network evening news show.

She was creator of The View, which began in 1997, a popular chat-show covering politics and other issues. “From that time on I was more or less accepted as a member of the old boys’ club,” she wrote in her autobiography, Audition, published in 2009. The third, to a television executive, Merv Adelson, in 1981, ended in divorce in 1984. Later that year, she did the first joint interview with the leaders of Egypt and Israel, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, a hugely symbolic moment in the Middle East. The casual sexism of the time was reflected in the headline: “Nylons in the Newsroom”. She got her start in television as a publicity assistant at an NBC affiliate in New York city, and made her first appearance on screen when she was producing a children’s programme, Ask the Camera. But viewers liked her and television executives, in turn, liked the ratings. Back in the US she became a writer in 1961 for NBC Today and three years later became a regular on screen as a reporter. Through a combination of talent and drive, Walters went on to make television history in 1974 as the first female co-host of NBC’s Today morning news show. It was one of the most watched news interviews in US television history. With that background, she chose theatre as her major at the Sarah Lawrence college in New York state. Her success opened the way for the generations of female television journalists who followed.

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'Trailblazer': Barbara Walters mourned as broadcasting icon (WGCU News)

Reaction poured in from the worlds of journalism, politics, sports and entertainment following the death of TV news pioneer and “The View” creator Barbara ...

“So often we toss around the words icon, legend, trailblazer - but Barbara Walters was all of these. “Barbara Walters will always be known as a trail blazer. A true trailblazer, she was the 1st woman anchor on the evening news. [Katie Couric](https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm0WJF1r84t/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link), journalist, former “Today” co-host and network news anchor. we met in the spring of 1998, in the midst of the starr investigation; i was 24. She cared about the truth and she made us care too. “The world of journalism has lost a pillar of professionalism, courage, and integrity. She left the world the better for it. She will be missed by all of us at The Walt Disney Company, and we send our deepest condolences to her daughter, Jacqueline.” — “Barbara was a true legend, a pioneer not just for women in journalism but for journalism itself. An intrepid interviewer, anchor and program host, she led the way as the first woman to become a TV news superstar. She was just as comfortable interviewing world leaders as she was Oscar winners and she had to fight like hell for every interview.

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Barbara Walters, pioneering US TV news anchor, dies at 93 (The Guardian)

First female network news anchor in US achieved a celebrity status on par with the rulers, royalty and entertainers she interviewed.

“I always thought I’d be a writer for television. The circumstances of her death were not given. “I never expected this!” Walters said in 2004, taking measure of her success.

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US TV news legend Barbara Walters dead at 93 (The Manila Times)

Walters interviewed a host of US presidents, foreign leaders such as Anwar Sadat and Fidel Castro, and A-list celebrities in a hugely successful career that ...

Two years later, she would join ABC. She briefly worked as a secretary, then as a writer at NBC, eventually becoming the network's first female anchor in 1974, co-hosting the morning "Today" show program. Walters became the first woman to anchor a US evening news program when she joined "ABC Evening News" in 1976, earning the then-unprecedented salary of one million dollars a year.

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In Memory of Barbara Walters (Christopher Reeve Foundation)

The legendary journalist interviewed Christopher Reeve several times, including in 2002 about his life and work following the equestrian accident that left him ...

The legendary journalist interviewed Christopher Reeve several times, including in 2002 about his life and work following the equestrian accident that left him paralyzed. It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to Barbara, and we honor her legacy as one of the world's most revered newsmakers. According to Variety Magazine, it was "one of Walters' most heart-wrenching celebrity interviews...Reeve’s session with Walters set his legacy as a determined survivor who used his experience to advocate for the rights of the disabled." The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation is deeply saddened by the passing of our longtime friend and supporter, Barbara Walters.

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How Barbara Walters Went From 'Today Girl' to Pioneering Media Star (The New York Times)

The first woman to co-anchor the evening news, she endured the scorn of her male counterparts.

[passed documents](https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/17/world/barbara-walters-gave-reagan-papers-on-iran.html) from Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms merchant she had interviewed for “20/20,” to the White House — a move [met with outrage](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-18-ca-7703-story.html) by much of the journalism community. Walters [interviewed](https://www.playbill.com/article/webber-names-his-favorite-on-20-20-com-69067) the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber for “20/20,” but did not reveal that she had invested $100,000 in the production of his musical “Sunset Boulevard” on Broadway. [ABC News admonished her](https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/20/nyregion/abc-admits-walters-had-sunset-stake.html) about the oversight. [once said](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTdot_qjcts), describing how she had to rely on her knowledge of the New York Yankees to convince the stagehands to talk to her. [in a program](https://www.emmys.com/news/hall-fame/barbara-walters-hall-fame-tribute) for her 1989 induction into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. Or, she might dig for gossip, wanting to know about Barbra Streisand’s face (“Why didn’t you have your nose fixed?”) and Ricky Martin’s sexuality (“You could say, as many artists have, yes I am gay, or you could say, no I’m not.”). She went on a few dates and remained longtime friends with the Fox News chief executive Roger Ailes. Her counterpart, Harry Reasoner, “was really awful to me on and off the air,” she told Vogue, though he later said he never disliked her personally. Her first autobiography, published in 1970, was called “How to Talk with Practically Anybody about Practically Anything.” She wrote in her 2008 memoir, “Audition,” that it was her legs, not her skills, that persuaded the head of a small Manhattan advertising agency to give her a job soon after she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1951. At the same time, she was working, unofficially, as the “Today” show's first female co-host. In 1961, she joined NBC’s “Today” show as a writer, researcher and occasional correspondent.

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Barbara Walters, pioneering TV journalist who began on 'TODAY ... (NBC News)

Barbara Walters, known for her groundbreaking interviews and a driving ambition that led her to become the first woman to anchor a network prime-time news ...

In the 2014 television special that commemorated her retirement from TV journalism, Walters showed off an autographed photo from Cuban despot Fidel Castro that hung on her wall: “For the longest and most difficult interview I’ve ever done in my life.” Her exclusive interview with Monica Lewinsky in 1999 earned the highest ratings in history for a prime-time interview. With ratings of her ABC news program a disappointment, Walters’ career was saved by the prime-time interview specials she started for ABC. ](https://twitter.com/mariashriver/status/1609026946696114177)"You paved the way for all of us. Walters was lured to ABC to become the first female co-anchor of a prime-time news broadcast with an unprecedented $1 million annual salary. It didn’t take long, however, for viewers to sense the tension between Walters and co-anchor Harry Reasoner, who couldn’t be bothered to hide his disdain for this former “TODAY Girl” being billed as his equal. When she broke into the business in 1961 as a writer on NBC’s “TODAY” show, the idea of a woman sitting down and interviewing a sitting president on prime-time network television (which she did just over a decade later) seemed more fantasy than reality in an industry dominated by men like Edward R. “She was smart and prepared, but at the same time she came across as more compassionate (than her male peers). “I learned that celebrities were human beings,” Walters said in 2014. ABC, the network where she last worked, aired a special report Friday night announcing Walters' death and reflecting on her career. She earned that reputation with a penchant for meticulous preparation, whether she was interviewing despots or divas, models or murderers. "She was a trailblazer not only for female journalists, but for all women.”

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How Barbara Walters helped Americans understand their presidents (CNN)

Over the course of a half-century interviewing American presidents, Barbara Walters interviewed the most powerful men in the world about their regrets, ...

She cringed watching herself gravely asking Carter to be “good to us” at the end of an interview. She “couldn’t summon the courage” to ask Ford about falling down the steps from Air Force One. “I used to be criticized for asking those kinds of questions: doesn’t matter, what do we care what he or she thinks? Bush – whom she wrote was the president she knew best “on a personal level” – whether he regretted his campaign phrase “Read my lips: no new taxes” after he was forced to, in fact, raise taxes. What do they believe in?” she said during an episode of “Oprah’s Master Class” in 2014. Was it worth it?” she asked. “But was it worth it if there were no weapons of mass destruction? You wanted him to get out,” she asked Michelle Obama in 2010. “Is there ever a moment when you say to yourself, one term is enough?” “Are you worried about this image, Mr. “You wanted him to give up politics. “Are you mean?

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Barbara Walters, news pioneer and 'The View' creator, dies (Politico)

Walters, a pioneer as TV news' first woman superstar, has died. She was 93.

A perennial favorite was her review of the year’s “10 Most Fascinating People.” But she faced a setback in 1971 with the arrival of a new host, Frank McGee, who insisted she wait for him to ask three questions before she could open her mouth during interviews with “powerful persons.” As she appeared more frequently, she was spared the title of “‘Today’ Girl” that had been attached to her predecessors. By 1976, she had been granted the title of “Today” co-host and was earning $700,000 a year. “I hope that I will be remembered as a good and courageous journalist. Walters’ self-disclosure reached another benchmark in May 2010 when she made an announcement on “The View” that, days later, she would undergo heart surgery. But salvation arrived in the form of a new boss: ABC News president Roone Arledge moved her out of the co-anchor slot and into special projects. Her 1963 marriage to theater owner Lee Guber, with whom she adopted a daughter, ended in divorce after 13 years. In May 2014, she taped her final episode of “The View” amid much ceremony to end a five-decade career in television (although she continued to make occasional TV appearances ). Late in her career, she gave infotainment a new twist with “The View,” a live ABC weekday kaffee klatsch with an all-female panel for whom any topic was on the table and who welcomed guests ranging from world leaders to teen idols. Walters graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1943 and eventually landed a “temporary,” behind-the-scenes assignment at “Today” in 1961. “She lived her life with no regrets.

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Gender Equity In Newsrooms Would Be The Greatest Tribute To ... (Forbes)

Legendary journalist Barbara Walters has died at age 93. Top industry leaders and influential colleagues are celebrating her contributions to the ...

Among major news outlets in the survey, The Washington Post came closest to gender equity with women representing 52% of staff members and 50% of leaders. The representation of women declined in nearly one-fifth of news organizations surveyed. Walters was also honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007. Walters was a panel member on the show through her retirement in 2014. In hundreds of statements and media interviews, top industry leaders and influential colleagues swiftly reacted to the news of her passing with fond reflections on how she impacted them, their industry, and the world through expert reporting and interviewing. In 1976, she transitioned to ABC, where she became the first woman to anchor an evening news program.

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