Legendary Television News Journalist, Emmy winner and The View creator Barbara Walters has died

One of television's legends and pioneers, Barbara Walters, has died. She died yesterday, Friday, November 30, 2022 at the age of 93.

She had a remarkable career on television and helped blaze a trail for other women in the broadcast journalism to follow, and helped break barriers in the industry for women.
Born on September 25, 1929 in Boston, Ms. Walters would move with her family to Miami (her father ran a nightclub) and then to New York. Attended collage and entered the advertising field in New York before segueing into television at the New York City NBC affiliate.

Ms. Walters had a fifty year career in television, starting out with the NBC The Today Show in the 1950s as a producer. She migrated to writer on the show by the late 1950s. She worked her way onto the show in front of the camera as a 'woman's stories' reporter in 1961. Her talent, skill and drive helped propel her to the co-anchor desk alongside Hugh Downs. She eventually reached the status of co-host alongside Jim Hartz in 1974, although she had essentially been the co-host (without the official title) for years with Hugh Downs, Frank McGee and then Jim Hartz.

She left The Today Show and NBC in 1976 to join ABC and their nightly news program alongside Harry Reasoner. That 'experiment' did not work out well for all involved, and Ms. Walters left the show; however, ABC had other plans for her. She would began her series of in-depth television interviews with celebrities and political leaders and they became legendary and a ratings bonanza for ABC. The interview specials were called The Barbara Walters Specials, and would often precede, or follow, major ABC television events, such as the annual Academy Awards show.

In the late 1970s, ABC paired Hugh Downs with Barbara Walters to co-host the new ABC magazine program, 20/20. In time, after the continued success of her specials and 20/20, Barbara Walters ventured into daytime television with her daily television talk show The View. The show became a major hit for ABC, and has set the standard for all the television talk shows on broadcast television since. Ms. Walters retired from The View and ABC in 2014.

A legendary career and an extraordinary talent. For those who would like to learn more about her life and career, Ms. Walters wrote her autobiography a few years ago titled "Audition."

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Rest in peace Barbara Walters.

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