Longtime ABC News Journalist, Anchor and ‘The View’ Architect Barbara Walters Passes Away at 93

It was announced tonight that longtime journalist and anchor Barbara Walters has passed away at 93.

ABC News reported the news in a tweet, “BREAKING: Barbara Walters, trailblazing television news broadcaster and longtime @ABC News anchor and correspondent, dies at 93.”

PBS journalist Joan Lunden responded to news, “Barbara blazed the trail for all of us who followed. May she rest in peace.”

Barbara blazed the trail for all of us who followed. May she rest in peace.

— Joan Lunden (@JoanLunden) December 31, 2022

ABC said of Walters that she joined ABC News in 1976 and became the first female anchor on an evening news program.

Walters became a co-host of “20/20” three years later and launched “The View” in 1997.

After making her final appearance as a co-host of “The View” in 2014, Walters remained an executive producer of the show and continued to do some interviews and specials for ABC News.

With her creation of “The View,” Walters created a forum for women of different backgrounds and views to come together and discuss the latest hot topics in the news, a format that has since been widely imitated by other networks.

Walters’ won 12 Emmy awards in her career that spanned five decades, 11 of those while at ABC News.