Barbara Walters, pioneering US TV news anchor, dies at 93

First female network news anchor in US achieved a celebrity status on par with the rulers, royalty and entertainers she interviewed

Barbara Walters, the foremost American TV interviewer of her generation and the first woman to lead a US network evening news program, has died aged 93.

Over the course of her 50-year career, Walters was queen of the get" - a term for securing the first interview with prominent figures making news, whether that was a movie star, politician or figure of criminal notoriety.