Barbara Walters, an American female journalist and representative anchor, has died at the age of 93.
Robert Eger, chief executive of Walt Disney, ABC's parent company, tweeted that her Walters died at her home in New York on the 30th local time.
Walters began her journalistic career in 1951 and worked as a reporter, producer, writer, anchor, and host in the broadcasting industry for nearly 50 years, until her retirement in 2015.
In 1974 she co-hosted NBC's 'The Today Show' and in 1976 she became co-anchor of ABC's Evening News.
At the time, she was the first in the history of American broadcasting, and it served as an opportunity to raise the status of female broadcasters.
When she became an ABC Evening News anchor in 1976, her salary was $1 million, twice that of third-party anchors, which she also set a career high in broadcasting.
During her more than 30 years at ABC and her previous tenure at NBC, Walters stood out for her one-on-one interviews with celebrities and powerhouses.
Walters is credited with excelling in finding her interviewees and eliciting a sincere response from her.
A number of US presidents and first ladies, from Richard and Pat Nixon to Barack Obama, have interviewed Walters.
As the Trump and Biden couples have also been interviewed before becoming president, she has interviewed Walters for all US presidential couples from President Nixon to the present.
Among the foreign leaders interviewed were Cuba's Fidel Castro, Britain's Margaret Thatcher, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
In addition to her work as a journalist and anchor, Walters created ABC's daytime women's talk show The View in 1997 and appeared on her own until 2014.
Walters has won 12 Emmy Awards, 11 of which she received while she was working for ABC News, ABC reported.
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