TV icon and journalist Barbara Walters has died, according to multiple reports. She was 93.ABC News was first to report the death on Friday, December 30.
Walters’ rep later confirmed the heartbreaking news to Variety.Born in Boston in September 1929, Walters was raised in Massachusetts for the first decade of her life before her family moved to Miami for a few years, eventually going back up north to New York City.
She graduated high school in 1947 before she went to Sarah Lawrence College, where she left with an English degree in 1951.After finishing undergrad, she started working at a small advertising agency before going to NBC to help with publicity.
She produced her first program, a 15-minute segment for kids called Ask the Camera, in 1953.The journalist got her big break on NBC’s The Today Show in 1961.
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