Barbara Walters made headlines in 1976 as the first US female network news anchor, with an unprecedented $US1 million annual salary.
, has died at 93, US broadcaster ABC News says.
Her cause of death was not immediately known. Other details, such as where she died, were not immediately released.Walters made headlines in 1976 as the first female network news anchor, with an unprecedented $US1 million annual salary. During more than three decades at ABC, and before that at NBC, Walters’ exclusive interviews with the famous and powerful brought her celebrity status that ranked with theirs.
Her drive was legendary as she competed for each big “get” in a world jammed with more and more rivals, including female journalists who had followed on the trail that she blazed. In a broadcast career spanning five decades, Walters interviewed an array of world leaders, including Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi, Saddam Hussein of Iraq and every US president and first lady since Richard and Pat Nixon.She earned 12 Emmy awards, 11 of those while at ABC News, the network said.in the 1960s as a writer and segment producer.
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