<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/barbara-walters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barbara Walters</a>, a journalist at ABC News who helped forge the way for women to appear on news broadcasts, has died. She was 93 years old.</p>
<p>ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/barbara-walters-trailblazing-tv-icon-dies-93/story?id=41435083&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broke the story</a> on her death, but provided no details or any statements from her family.</p>
<p>Walters joined ABC News in 1976, where she was the first woman to anchor a nightly news show, the network said. She later co-hosted &#8220;20/20&#8221; and launched &#8220;The View.&#8221;</p>
<p>Walters stepped down from co-hosting &#8220;The View&#8221; in 2014, saying at the time: &#8220;I do not want to appear on another program or climb another mountain. I want instead to sit on a sunny field and admire the very gifted women &#8212; and OK, some men too &#8212; who will be taking my place.&#8221;</p>
<p>Walters, who was born in 1929, grew up around celebrities because her father worked in show business. This experience taught her valuable lessons that would later help her in her career.</p>
<p>&#8220;I would see them onstage looking one way and offstage often looking very different. I would hear my parents talk about them and know that even though those performers were very special people, they were also human beings with real-life problems,&#8221; Walters said decades ago. &#8220;I can have respect and admiration for famous people, but I have never had a sense of fear or awe.&#8221;</p>
<p>Disney CEO Robert Iger responded to Walters&#8217; death in a statement that praised her career.</p>
<p>&#8220;Barbara was a true legend, a pioneer not just for women in journalism but for journalism itself,&#8221; Iger said. &#8220;She was a one-of-a-kind reporter who landed many of the most important interviews of our time, from heads of state and leaders of regimes to the biggest celebrities and sports icons.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I had the pleasure of calling Barbara a colleague for more than three decades, but more importantly, I was able to call her a dear friend,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;She will be missed by all of us at The Walt Disney Company, and we send our deepest condolences to her daughter, Jacqueline.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I have sad news to share today. Barbara Walters passed away this evening at her home in New York. <a href="https://t.co/fxSyU6BQk4">pic.twitter.com/fxSyU6BQk4</a></p>
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