The news station that Walters called home for many years announced her death late Friday.
The news station that Walters called home for many yearsNo details were immediately available on her cause of death.
Tributes immediately began pouring in on social media for the trailblazer who became the first female news anchor on an evening news program, and went on to become one of the most well-known faces in the news in a career spanning five decades. “We were all influenced by Barbara Walters,” ABC News’ David Muir said of the “extraordinary human being, journalist, pioneer, legend.”
“She broke barriers behind the scenes and she broke news on-camera. She got people to say things they never would’ve said to another journalist,” Muir said.
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