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Pioneering news journalist Barbara Walters has died at the age of 93.
Her death was announced live by her network ABC on Friday night.
Walters made headlines in 1976 as the network’s first female news anchor, with an unprecedented annual salary of $1 million.
During more than three decades at ABC, and before that at NBC, she was known for securing exclusive interviews with celebrities and the powerful.
Ms. Walters was the first co-host of Today, a hugely successful American news and magazine programme, the first female evening news anchor in broadcast history, and co-creator and host of the topical chat show The View.
And ABC News announced that she died Friday evening at her home in New York.
Photo: With Oprah Winfrey and Diana Ross in 2000
ABC owner Disney CEO Robert Iger confirmed her death, calling it “sad news.”
He said Ms. Walters was “a true legend”, a “one-of-a-kind reporter” and a “pioneer not only for women in journalism but for journalism itself”.
Image: Ms Walters interviews Monica Lewinsky about her relationship with US President Bill Clinton. It became the most watched episode of the primetime show 20/20
In a broadcasting career spanning five decades, Ms. Walters has interviewed an array of world leaders, including Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, and every American president and first lady since Richard and Pat Nixon.
Photo: with actor Michael Douglas
She has won 12 Emmy Awards, 11 of them while at ABC News.
She is survived by her only daughter, Jacqueline Danforth.
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