Barbara Walters says she is departing the ABC news magazine show “20/20” after 25 years because she wants to “leave at the top” and avoid being pushed out the door involuntarily.
“Newsmagazines in general are somewhat in jeopardy, I think,” Walters told The New York Times for Sunday’s editions. “I didn’t want anyone to say, she was forced out, she had to leave.”
Walters, 74, said that when she first became an evening news anchor, coanchor Harry Reasoner did not want to work with a woman and wouldn’t talk to her off the air.
Walters says she plans to stay in television, continuing her interview specials and appearances on “The View.” ABC News appointed Elizabeth Vargas to replace her on “20/20.”
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