Legendary journalist Barbara Walters dead at age 93

Barbara Walters dies at 93

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Renown journalist Barbara Walters, the intrepid interviewer, anchor and program host, has died. She was 93. ABC broke into its broadcast to announce Walters' death on air Friday. Bob Iger, the CEO of ABC parent The Walt Disney Company stated, “Barbara was a true legend, a pioneer not just for women in journalism but for journalism itself.” During her years working at ABC, and before that at NBC, Walters’ exclusive interviews…

Barbara Walters, Landmark Journalist and History-Making Interviewer, Dead at 93

Walters changed the course of morning, evening, and daytime television during her six decade career.

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Last year ended with the loss of Betty White, and sadly, 2022 is closing with the departure of another legend. Celebrated journalist Barbara Walters has died at age 93. Her death was reported on Friday, Dec. 30 by ABC News, the company that hired her as the first female anchor of an evening news program in 1976. The New York Times later reported that she passed in her Manhattan home and that her publicist, Cindi Berger, confirmed her death but n…

Trailblazing journalist Barbara Walters has died at 93

Barbara Walters, one of the most famous American broadcast journalists, has died at the age of 93 on Friday evening, according to ABC News, her former employer. A cause of death was not provided immediately.Though a celebrity as much as anyone she covered, Walters pursued serious subjects as well. She was an unexpected pathbreaker. And if you remember Walters as a journalist who blurred the lines between news and entertainment, there is some tru…

Barbara Walters, celebrated Jewish TV persona, dies at 93

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Barbara Walters was that rarest of TV personalities: a cultural fixture. For more than a half-century, she was on the air, placing in front of her audience world figures, big shots and celebrities whose names and faces might have changed from year to year. But hers never did. She first found her way to prominence in a visually oriented business where, typically, women were adornments or otherwise secondary. Walters death at age 93 was announced …