Barbara Walters, a pioneer in broadcast journalism who won a legendary Emmy and helped make The View, has died. She had lived for 93 years.
On Friday, ABC News said it was true. No reason was given for the death. Disney CEO Bob Iger said in a tweet that Walters died at her home in New York on Friday night.
During her more than 50-year career, Walter became a mainstay in broadcasting. She ran the Today show, ABC News, 20/20, The View, and her annual Most Fascinating People unique while paving the way for other women journalists.
When Walters started working for 20/20 in 1978, she was already well-known in a field where men were the norm. Walters was reunited with her former Today co-host, Hugh Downs when she joined the news show. It also solidified what would become her legacy.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 25, 1929. She grew up in Boston, Miami, and New York. In the early 1950s, she started as a journalist in New York.
Walters got a job in the publicity department of NBC affiliate WNBT-TV a year after she got her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She then went to WPIX. In 1955, she became a writer for CBS’s The Morning Show. Walters then became a writer and regular correspondent for Today. After anchor Frank McGee died in 1974, she became the first woman to co-host the long-running morning show.
Two years later, Walters joined ABC Evening News as a co-anchor with Harry Reasoner, who didn’t want a co-anchor. This made their relationship at work rocky. By the end of the 1970s, Walters had moved on to 20/20 and slowly become the face of the news program. He landed memorable interviews with world leaders like Fidel Castro, President Richard Nixon, Egypt’s former president Anwar Sadat, Palestine’s Yasir Arafat, and Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez, as well as with celebrities like Katherine Hepburn, Christopher Reeve, Angelina Jolie, Sir Laurence Olivier, and coun.
Walters returned to morning TV in 1997 when her new show, The View, started. Even though Walters was in charge of the show, it began with Star Jones, Debbie Matenopoulos, Meredith Vieira, and Joy Behar as co-hosts. In 2007, Whoopi Goldberg and Sheri Shepherd joined the show. Rosie O’Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck came next, and Jenny McCarthy, Raven Symone, and others joined after that. All of the above co-hosts, except for Goldberg and Behar, have left The View.
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In 1999, Walters again made TV history when 74 million people watched her 20/20 interview with Monica Lewinsky, a record at the time. Walters had open-heart surgery in 2010, but the health scare didn’t stop her from working. By then, Walters was a well-known figure, but she kept working on The View as a co-host and executive producer until she officially retired in 2014.
Over the 20 years that The View has been on the air, the co-hosts have come and gone, and there have always been rumors of trouble behind the scenes. Walters brushed off many rumors by either not responding or denying that she and her other co-hosts had many problems.
Walters stopped being a co-host of 20/20 in 2004, but she continued to work for ABC News as a part-time contributor until 2016. She also returned to The View as a special guest more than once.
Walters got a lot of awards and honors over the years, and in 1989, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. She got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007, and at the 30th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards in 2009, she won the award for lifetime achievement.
Even though Walters was well-known, she kept the details of her life secret until 2008, when her best-selling memoir Audition came out. In the book, Walters talked about her family, her career, and her relationship with Alan Greenspan, who used to be the head of the Federal Reserve Bank. She also admitted to having an affair with Massachusetts Senator Edward R. Brooke.
Walters was married four times. In 1955, she married businessman Robert Henry Katz for the first time. After about a year, they broke up. Walters got married to a producer, Lee Guber, in 1963. In 1968, Walters and Guber adopted a daughter, Jacqueline. Walters and Guber split in 1976. After her second marriage ended, Walters married Merv Adelson, a TV producer, and real estate developer, from 1981 until 1984. In 1986, they married again and divorced for the last time in 1992.
Walters has a daughter, Jacqueline, who will carry on after her.
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