Journalist who made US television history as the first female co-anchor of a network evening news show
The award-winning journalist Barbara Walters had to break through lots of glass ceilings to become one of the best-known faces in US television news. Walters, who has died aged 93, began her career in the 1960s when the prevailing attitude among television executives was that viewers would not take seriously
Women delivering news about politics, war or other weighty subjects.
Through a combination of talent and drive, Walters went on to make television history in 1974 as the first female co-host of NBC’s Today morning news show. Two years later, she switched to ABC to an even more prestigious job: the first female co-anchor of evening news on any network.