{"id":1271991,"date":"2022-12-31T03:19:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T03:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/31\/pioneering-journalist-barbara-walters-dies-at-93\/"},"modified":"2022-12-31T03:19:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T03:19:42","slug":"pioneering-journalist-barbara-walters-dies-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/31\/pioneering-journalist-barbara-walters-dies-at-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering journalist Barbara Walters dies at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dec. 30 (UPI) \u2014<\/span> Barbara Walters, the pioneering broadcast journalist who was the first female anchor on an evening news program, died Friday. She was 93.<\/p>\n

The ABC network, where Walters long worked, interrupted its schedule Friday night to announce the news of her death.\n<\/p>\n

Walters\u2019 storied career began in the early 1960s when she served as a writer and segment producer for \u201cThe Today Show.\u201d<\/p>\n

She joined ABC News in 1976 as a co-host alongside Harry Reasoner on \u201cABC Evening News,\u201d shattering the glass ceiling in the male-dominated news industry.<\/p>\n

Walters became a co-host of \u201c20\/20\u201d in 1979, which she led through 2004 and again from 2013 to 2014.<\/p>\n

She was most recently known for creating, producing and co-hosting the ABC daytime talk show \u201cThe View\u201d from 1994 until her retirement.<\/p>\n

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Dec. 30 (UPI) \u2014 Barbara Walters, the pioneering broadcast journalist who was the first female anchor on an evening news program, died Friday. She was 93. The ABC network, where Walters long worked, interrupted its schedule Friday night to announce the news of her death. Walters\u2019 storied career began in the early 1960s when she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}