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
Barbara Walters on the set of the Today Show, New York in 1976.

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.