Barbara Walters: American TV legend dies at 93

American journalist Barbara Walters, the first woman to present an evening newscast in the United States for ABC Evening News in 1976, died at the age of 93, the ABC channel announced on Friday, December 30. This legend of the American media had said goodbye in 2014, with a "à bientôt," "see you soon" in French, after more than fifty years of television. She was then 84 years old.

Barbara Walters had interviewed all the American presidents from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, foreign leaders such as Saddam Hussein, Anouar el-Sadat and Fidel Castro, the Dalai Lama and other celebrities such as Bette Davis and Angelina Jolie. She became a celebrity herself in the American news world, particularly on the daily show The View which she created in 1997 on ABC.

The journalist had won 12 Emmy Awards, all but one while with ABC, the channel added. When she left in 2014, she said she was happy to have been a pioneer in a profession long reserved for men. Hillary Clinton came to pay her respects, as well as television host and producer Oprah Winfrey and about twenty other women television journalists.