First female network news anchor in US achieved a celebrity status on par with the rulers, royalty and entertainers she interviewed
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Barbara Walters, the foremost
American TV interviewer of her generation and the first woman to lead a US network evening news program, has died aged 93.
Over the course of her 50-year career, Walters was
Queen of the “get” – a term for securing the first interview with prominent figures making news, whether that was a movie star, politician or figure of criminal notoriety.