Barbara Walters, one of the most visible women on US television as the first female anchor on an American network evening news broadcast and one of TV's most prominent interviewers, has died aged 93.
Ms Walters, who created the popular ABC women's talk show The View in 1997, died at her home in New York, Robert Iger, chief executive of ABC's corporate parent, The Walt Disney Co., said in a statement."Barbara was a true legend, a pioneer not just for women in journalism but for journalism itself," Mr Iger wrote.
"I asked Yeltsin if he drank too much, and I asked Putin if he killed anybody," Ms Walters told the New York Times in 2013. Both answered no. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, she worked in public relations before joining NBC's Today show as a writer and segment producer in 1961. Her unwilling partner, Harry Reasoner, made his disdain for Ms Walters obvious even when they were on the air.
In 1977, she scored a joint interview with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin before they made peace.
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