Legendary TV journalist Barbara Walters has passed away at the age of 93:
Barbara Walters, a television anchor and broadcaster known for a decades-long career, has died at the age of 93. The news was broken on Friday via a report from ABC News, the company she worked at for much of her career. The cause of death is currently unknown at this time. Born on September 25, 1929 in Boston Massachusetts, Walters began working as a journalist in 1951, and continued through her retirement in 2015.
In the decades that followed, Walters interviewed countless noteworthy world leaders, including Fidel Castro, Vladimir Putin, and ever United States president and first lady from and celebrities, including Michael Jackson, Katherine Hepburn. Her last public appearance was in 2016. She appeared as herself on projects like Nashville, Saturday Night Live, and Sesame Street.
Walters received countless awards during her life, including twelve Emmys, an induction into the Television Hall of Fame in 1989, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007. Part of ABC News' New York headquarters was renamed in her honor in May of 2014.
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