Barbara Walters Makes It Official

Barbara Walters, America’s first TV evening news anchorwoman, is retiring from the news business after 52 years of interviewing the world’s top leaders and celebrities.

Walters will anchor and report for the organization for one more year before retiring in May 2014. She will make the official announcement Monday on “The View,” an all women talk show she created in 1997.


“There’s only one Barbara Walters,” ABC News President Ben Sherwood said. “And we look forward to making her final year on television as remarkable, path-breaking and news-making as Barbara herself.”