Female Pioneer in TV Journailsm

Pioneering journalist Barbara Walters has passed at 93. Her long career began in the 1950s, and she eventually worked at all three TV networks. She became a cohost on the NBC Today Show and then coanchored the ABC Evening News which shattered a glass ceiling. Her accomplishments were not without resistance from male counterparts, but she set the gold standard of event interviews over the decades with the top stars and world leaders. Her pre-Oscar show was a staple for many years and her evening news magazine 20/20 was an institution. She helped create The View and mentored female talents. Even SNL's Gilda Radner and later (Cheri Oteri) famously parodied her as 'Baba Wawa'. She won multiple Emmy Awards and was at the top of her profession when she retired in 2014.