In 1976, she was the first woman to present the evening television news “ABC Evening News”. She had farewell in 2014 after more than 50 years of television, at the age of 84.
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She was the first woman to presented a evening television news in the United States. American journalist Barbara Walters died at the age of 93, her longtime employer announced on Friday 20 December, the ABC channel. The American channel did not give the cause or the place of his death.
This legend of the American audiovisual landscape had farewell in 2014, at the age of 84, with a “soon” in French who had concluded more than fifty years of television. Until then, Barbara Walters had interviewed all the Presidents of the United States from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, foreign leaders such as Saddam Hussein, Anouar El-Sadate and Fidel Castro, Dalai-Lama or other celebrities Like Bette Davis and Angelina Jolie.
She has become a celebrity in the world of American information, especially on the daily program “The View”, which she had created in 1997 on ABC. The journalist had won twelve Emmy Awards, all except one while she was with ABC, added the channel.
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her departure, in 2014, she said she was happy to have been a pioneer in a profession long reserved for men. Hillary Clinton came to pay tribute to him as well as the host and television producer Oprah Winfrey and around twenty women journalists on television.
In 1976, she was the first woman to present the evening television news “ABC Evening News”, winning an unprecedented salary of $ 1 million per year. Two years earlier, she had co -sprung up a morning program on NBC. But it had been a “flop”, recalled Barbara Walters forty years later: “My male co-planet did not want a partner [female] and the public either.”
She then imposed herself thanks to her unique style interviews, from Vladimir Putin to Michael Jackson via Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi. His greatest pride was to have contributed to the arrival of women journalists on television. “If I did anything to help it, it’s my heritage,” she said in 2014.