Barbara Walters, a pioneering journalist and television personality, has passed away at the age of 93. According to her representative, Cindi Berger, Walters "passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by loved ones" and "lived her life with no regrets."

She was a trailblazer not only for female journalists, but for all women.

Born in Boston in 1929, Walters grew up in New York and attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she received a degree in English.

She began her television news career at NBC's Today show in 1961, where she worked her way up from a writer and researcher to a reporter-at-large and eventually the show's first female co-host alongside Hugh Downs and Frank McGee.

In her autobiography, Audition, published in 2008, Walters revealed that she had an affair with U.S. Senator Edward Brooke in the 1970s and also dated Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan around the same time.

The cause of Walters' death is unknown at this time. This story will be updated accordingly.