Pioneering television journalist Barbara Walters, who upended a male-dominated industry as the first woman to anchor an evening news show in the United States, has died at the age of 93, her long-time employer ABC said late Friday.
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 spanned five decades — becoming a touchstone of American culture in the process.
ABC did not give a cause of death or say where Walters died. Walters won 12 Emmy awards, all but one while at ABC, the network said. She largely retired from television after signing off in 2014 from daytime program “The View,” which she had launched in 1997.
