host of "The Barbara Walters Special," creator and co-host and co-executive producer of "The View." Her memoir "Audition" is out, and it's an instant best-seller. I'll tell you how instant.

"Barbara Walters passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by loved ones," her representative Cindi Berger confirmed to PEOPLE Friday Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's ...

I felt this same sense of accomplishment when I joined the ABC News family in 1976 and became the first ... After more than 50 years in journalism, Walters retired from her talk show, The View ...

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