Obituary
Barbara Walters, Doyenne of TV Interviewers, Dies at 93
- She spent more than half a century on network television
- Known for evoking tears, unexpected revelations from guests
Photographer: Raymond Borea/Archive Photos/Getty Images
Barbara Walters, the US television personality who helped define the news with interviews that often conferred celebrity as much as they revealed it, has died. She was 93.
Her death was reported by her longtime employer, ABC News. Bob Iger, chief executive officer of Walt Disney Co., ABC’s parent company, said Walters died Friday evening at her home in New York.