| Martha Raddatz | |
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| Born | Martha Raddatz February 14, 1953 Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., |
| Occupation | ABC News network's Chief Foreign Correspondent. |
| Years active | 1999 |
| Spouse | Tom Gjelten (present) |
Martha Raddatz (born 1953, Idaho Falls, Idaho[1]) is an American reporter with ABC News . She currently serves as the network's Chief Foreign Correspondent. She reports for ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer, Nightline, and other network broadcasts. In addition to her work for ABC News, Raddatz has written for The New Republic and is a frequent guest on PBS's Washington Week. Other sources report Salt Lake City as her place of birth.[2]
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Raddatz was appointed to her current position as ABC's Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent in November 2008, having worked as the network's chief White House correspondent for the last term of George W. Bush administration.[3]
Raddatz began her tenure at ABC News in 1999 as the network's State Department correspondent and became ABC's senior national security correspondent in May 2003, reporting extensively from Iraq. From 1993 to 1998, Raddatz covered the Pentagon for National Public Radio. Prior to joining NPR in 1993, Raddatz was the chief correspondent at the ABC News Boston affiliate WCVB-TV. She is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Long Road Home, a book about the war in Sadr City, Iraq.
On June 8, 2006, Raddatz received a tip that terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been located and killed. This tip allowed Raddatz and ABC News to become the first news organization in the world to break the news shortly after 2:30 am EST.[3][4]
On January 9, 2007, Raddatz's mobile phone went off during a White House press briefing with Tony Snow. Of particular humor was her musical ring tone Chamillionaire's, "Ridin'." The press corps and Tony Snow enjoyed a few moments of laughter.[5]
Raddatz resides in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband, journalist Tom Gjelten. She has two children from previous relationships.[6]
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| Preceded by Terry Moran |
ABC News Chief White House Correspondent November 2005 – January 2009 |
Succeeded by Jake Tapper |
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