Journalist Barbara Walters, a pioneer in American TV, died this Friday (30). The information was confirmed by the ABC News network, which she would be associated with for having worked for decades.
Owner of a career spanning more than half a century on American TV, she was for a long time a pioneer in a profession then reserved for men.
Until he retired in 2014, Walters interviewed every American president and first lady from Richard Nixon (1969-1974) to Barack Obama (2009-2017). She has also spoken with world leaders such as Fidel Castro, Boris Yeltsin, Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Vladimir Putin and Saddam Husein, and with movie stars such as Katharine Hepburn, Harrison Ford and Angelina Jolie.
His audience record was registered in 1999, in a program with Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern who almost led to the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton. Around 74 million viewers watched the exclusive interview.
Walters started on the NBC network in 1961, producing for the news segment of the morning “Today Show”, with female themes and featuring the weather forecast. Years later, she became co-host of the “Today Show”, being the first woman to occupy that role on American television. In 1976, she moved to ABC, where she shared the bench on the evening news, a role in which she was also a pioneer.
In 1979, she became co-host and producer of the news program “20/20” and, at the same time, presented and contributed to some newsletters on the network, in addition to mediating debates, such as a presidential one in 1984.
In total, Barbara Walters worked 25 years for “20/20” and, in parallel, started with “The View” in 1997.
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