ABC News and Wikipedia – (WBAP/KLIF) Groundbreaking newswoman Barbara Walters is reported as having passed at the age of 93 in her New York City home Friday. Walters broke gender barriers for women to enter and deliver hard news to Americans, becoming co-host of The Today Show in 1974. Two years later, the first female co anchor of the ABC Evening News with Harry Reasoner.
Walters went on to interview every sitting President and major news making world leader; created, produced and co=-hosted the daytime talk show The View, and continued special reports through 2015. Inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1989, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007.
(Credit to Wikipedia): “In the late 1960s, Walters wrote a magazine article, “How to Talk to Practically Anyone About Practically Anything”, which drew upon the kinds of things people said to her, which were often mistakes.[93] Shortly after the article appeared, she received a letter from Doubleday expressing interest in expanding it into a book. Walters felt that it would help “tongue-tied, socially awkward people—the many people who worry that they can’t think of the right thing to say to start a conversation.”[93] She published the book How to Talk with Practically Anybody About Practically Anything in 1970, with the assistance of ghostwriter June Callwood.[94] To Walters’s great surprise, the book was a success. As of 2008, it had gone through eight printings, sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide, and had been translated into at least six languages.[93]“
She published her autobiography, Audition: A Memoir, in 2008.[95]