Emmy-winning newswoman and celebrity interviewer Barbara Walters, the doyenne of television news, has died. She was 93.
Walters received multiple Daytime Emmy nominations for best talk show host for her work on “The View,” winning in 2003 and 2009, and she also received multiple Primetime Emmy nominations for her specials, winning in 1983. She also won a Daytime Emmy in 1975 for “Today” and shared a News and Documentary Emmy for her work at ABC on coverage of the turn of the millennium.
To be interviewed by Walters was synonymous with success in the celebrity arena. World leaders from Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin to Richard Nixon, Fidel Castro and Margaret Thatcher also felt secure being interviewed by her. “Today” had gone through dozens of women co-hosts, including actor Maureen O’Sullivan, who abruptly quit in 1964. Downs suggested that the network try out Walters, which it did, though she wasn’t elevated to co-host status until 1974. By that time, Sally Quinn had gotten there first on CBS’ “The Morning Show.”
The Barbara Walters interview began in 1976, becoming a celebrity TV staple. Most of the major TV and film stars of the last generation submitted to Walters’ questions at one time or another. She also score interview coups, including Castro and the historic Begin/Sadat sitdown. She interviewed virtually every sitting president from Eisenhower, including Bill Clinton, George W.
Walters’ March 3, 1999, interview of Monica Lewinsky was seen by 74 million viewers, the biggest audience ever for a journalist’s interview. Walters asked Lewinsky, “What will you tell your children about this matter?” and Lewinsky replied, “I guess Mommy made some mistakes.” At that point Walters turned to the viewers and declared, “And that is the understatement of the century,” bringing the program to a dramatic conclusion.
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