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TV icon and journalist Barbara Walters has died, according to multiple reports. She was 93.
ABC News was first to report the death on Friday, December 30. Walters’ rep later confirmed the heartbreaking news to Variety.
Born in Boston in September 1929, Walters was raised in Massachusetts for the first decade of her life before her family moved to Miami for a few years, eventually going back up north to New York City. She graduated high school in 1947 before she went to Sarah Lawrence College, where she left with an English degree in 1951.
After finishing undergrad, she started working at a small advertising agency before going to NBC to help with publicity. She produced her first program, a 15-minute segment for kids called Ask the Camera, in 1953.
The journalist got her big break on NBC’s The Today Show in 1961. Walters started as a researcher and writer before becoming the “Today Girl,” handling fluffier stories and weather reports. Within a year, she was a reporter-at-large, doing more serious interviews. Still, she had trouble being taken seriously as a woman. Host Frank McGee refused to do joint interviews unless he asked the first three questions. Walters wasn’t named the first female cohost until after McGee’s death in 1974.
She joined ABC Evening News in 1976 and started her two-decade run on the network’s 20/20 newsmagazine program, where she interviewed everyone who was anyone. In addition to 20/20, Walters was best recognized as creating The View in 1997, which she led until stepping down in 2014. Between 1993 and 2015, she also hosted her annual Barbara Walters’ 10 Most Fascinating People program, where she highlighted ten public figures at the end of each year.
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The journalism world lost a legend this week.
, broke down barriers at The Today Show in the '70s, became the first woman to coanchor a network news program, founded The View, and so much more. “Without Barbara Walters, there wouldn’t have been me—nor any other woman you see on evening, morning, and daily news,” wrote in a . She was indeed a Trailblazer.