Emmy Award-winning journalist and celebrity interviewer Barbara Walters, a doyenne of television news, has died. She is 93 years old.
Walters has interviewed the biggest names in politics and entertainment, from Katharine Hepburn to Monica Lewinsky to Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat.
Walters, once the highest-paid television reporter who blazed a trail for women in television news, earned as much as $12 million a year at ABC, where she worked from 1976 until her transition from ABC News and 2014 May show "The View" retired.
Walters has multiple Daytime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Talk Show Host for "The View," which she won in 2003 and 2009, as well as multiple Emmy nominations for the special, which she won in 1983 Time slot Emmy nomination. She also won a Daytime Emmy in 1975 for "Today" and shared a News and Documentary Emmy for her work on ABC's coverage of the turn of the millennium.
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