As the first female co-host of the “Today” show and the first female anchor of a network evening news programme, Barbara Walters helped to erode the distinction between news and entertainment by interviewing celebrities and becoming one of them herself. She passed away on Friday at her Manhattan home. She was 93.
Her publicist, Cindi Berger, confirmed the death but did not cite a cause. ABC News, where Ms. Walters was a longtime anchor and a creator of the talk show “The View,” reported the death earlier.
Ms. Walters spent more than 50 years in front of the camera and, until she was 84, continued to appear on “The View.” In one-on-one interviews, she was best known for delving, with genteel insistence, into the private lives and emotional states of movie stars, heads of state and other high-profile subjects.
Ms. Walters first made her mark on the “Today” show on NBC, where she began appearing regularly on camera in 1964; she was officially named co-host a decade later. Barbara Walters success kicked open the door for future network anchors like Jane Pauley, Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer.
(Source Newyork Times)
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