Martha Raddatz

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Martha Raddatz
Born Martha Raddatz
February 14, 1953 (1953-02-14) (age 59)
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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[edit] Career

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]

[edit] Personal life

Raddatz resides in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband, journalist Tom Gjelten. She has two children from previous relationships.[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Martha Raddatz". http://www.idahohumanities.org/news/raddatz.php. 
  2. ^ "Martha Raddatz" (Fee, via Fairfax County Public Library). Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale Biography In Context. 2008. Gale Document Number: GALE|H1000179311. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=BIC2&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CH1000179311&mode=view&userGroupName=fairfax_main&jsid=d5b258c7908b63bf2d0db9f2153caa0e. Retrieved 11 June 2011. 
  3. ^ a b "Martha Raddatz". ABCNews.com. February 25, 2009. http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=127431. Retrieved 2011-06-11. 
  4. ^ Bauder, David (June 8, 2006). "ABC News scores overnight beat on story of al-Zarqawi's death". San Diego Union Tribune. Associated Press. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20060608-0925-al-zarqawi-tv.html. Retrieved 2011-06-11. 
  5. ^ Raddatz, Martha (January 09, 2007). "Tone of the Briefing". http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2007/01/tone_of_the_bri.html. Retrieved 2011-06-11. 
  6. ^ "Martha Raddatz is Chief White House correspondent for ABC News". TV Newsroom. June 11, 2011. http://tvnewsroom.co.uk/people/martha-raddatz/. Retrieved 2011-06-11. 

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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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