Barbara Walters, Pioneering Broadcast Journalist and Creator of ‘The View,’ Dies at 93

The veteran broadcaster hosted numerous TV programs, including “Today,” “20/20” and the “ABC Evening News”

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Barbara Walters, the Emmy-winning pioneering journalist who paved the way for decades of women journalists in broadcast TV, died on Friday. She was 93.

“Barbara Walters, who shattered the glass ceiling and became a dominant force in an industry once dominated by men, has died,” tweeted ABC News Friday. Walters worked for ABC from 1976 to her retirement in 2014.

Walters got her start as a writer and segment producer on NBC’s “The Today Show.”

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