Martha Raddatz

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| name = Martha Raddatz

| image = Martha Raddatz.png

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| caption = Raddatz in an interview, 2014

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|2|14}}

| birth_place = Idaho Falls, Idaho, U.S.

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| employer = ABC News

| occupation = Chief Global Affairs Correspondent

| years_active = 1999–present

| education = University of Utah (dropped out)

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{{marriage|Ben Bradlee Jr.|1979|1991}}
{{marriage|Julius Genachowski|1991|1997|end=divorced}}
{{marriage|Tom Gjelten|1997}}

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| children = 2

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Martha Raddatz ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|r|æ|d|ᵻ|t|s|}}; born February 14, 1953) is an American reporter with ABC News. She is the network's Chief Global Affairs Correspondent reporting for ABC's World News Tonight with David Muir, 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. Raddatz is the co-anchor and primary fill-in anchor on This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

Early life

Raddatz was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Edward Dustin Raddatz and Doris Elaine (née Anderson).gw.geneanet.org/{{cite web |url=http://idahoptv.org/dialogue/diaShowPage.cfm?KeyNo=1192&versionID=180357 |title=Martha Raddatz, 11/13/08 interview on Idaho Public TV at 2:25 "I was born in Idaho Falls,.." Retrieved 10/12/12.}} Her family later moved to Salt Lake City. She attended the University of Utah but dropped out to work at a local station.{{cite news |author=Kurtz, Howard |title=Martha Raddatz, Putting Herself in the Thick of Things|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/11/AR2007111101713.html |newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2016-10-10}}

Career

File:Leon Panetta interviewed by Martha Raddatz.jpg in January 2013]]

Prior to 1993, Raddatz was the chief correspondent at the ABC News Boston affiliate WCVB-TV. From 1993 to 1998, Raddatz covered the Pentagon for National Public Radio.

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. 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 a.m. EST.{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=127431 |title=Martha Raddatz |publisher=ABCNews.com |date=February 25, 2009 |access-date=2011-06-11}}{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |first=David |last=Bauder |url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20060608-0925-al-zarqawi-tv.html |work=San Diego Union Tribune |date=June 8, 2006 |title=ABC News scores overnight beat on story of al-Zarqawi's death |access-date=2011-06-11}}

In a March 24, 2008, extended interview with Dick Cheney conducted in Ankara, Turkey, on the fifth anniversary of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Raddatz posed a question about public opinion polls showing that Americans had lost confidence in the war, a question to which Cheney responded by saying "So?"{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/WorldNews/story?id=4515515 |title=Full Interview: Dick Cheney on Iraq|date=March 24, 2008|access-date=March 11, 2013|work=ABC News}} Raddatz appeared taken aback by the response, and Cheney's remark prompted widespread criticism, including a Washington Post op-ed by former Republican Congressman and Cheney friend Mickey Edwards.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032102482_pf.html|title=Dick Cheney's Error: It's Government By the People|last=Edwards|first=Mickey|date=March 22, 2008|access-date=March 6, 2011 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}

Raddatz is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family, a book about the Siege of Sadr City, Iraq. A TV mini series based on the book aired on NatGeo in late 2017.

After the national security beat, Raddatz became the network's chief White House correspondent for the last term of the George W. Bush administration. 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.{{cite web |url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2007/01/tone_of_the_bri.html |title=Tone of the Briefing |date=January 9, 2007 |access-date=2011-06-11 |first=Martha |last=Raddatz |series=The World Newser}}

Raddatz was appointed to her current position as ABC's Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent in November 2008.

Raddatz served as the moderator of the Vice-Presidential debate on October 11, 2012, between Paul Ryan and Joe Biden at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/martha-raddatz-to-moderate-vp-debate/ |title=Martha Raddatz to Moderate VP Debate |website=ABC News |date=August 13, 2012 |access-date=2012-08-13}} Raddatz also served alongside Anderson Cooper as co-moderator for the second presidential debate in 2016, between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump at Washington University in St. Louis.{{cite news|last=Borchers |first=Callum |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/29/anderson-cooper-and-martha-raddatz-drop-hints-about-the-second-clinton-trump-debate/ |title=Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz drop hints about the second Clinton-Trump debate |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=2016-09-29 |access-date=2016-10-20}} Cooper and Raddatz were reviewed and some commentators noted their "no-nonsense approach" and "aggressive style", though Raddatz was criticized for a challenge to one of Trump's statements, which some journalists felt "fell outside of her mandate as moderator".{{cite web |url=http://www.adweek.com/fishbowldc/how-did-martha-raddatz-and-anderson-cooper-do-as-moderators/159973 |title=How Did Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper Do as Moderators? |work=Adweek |first=Corinne |last=Grinapol |date=October 10, 2016 |access-date=December 3, 2016}}

The Guardian said in 2014 that Raddatz "is known for having well-cultivated sources inside the Defense Department."{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/blog/2014/mar/13/mh370-no-sign-of-debris-detected-by-chinese-satellite-live-updates|title=MH370 search: Pentagon sends destroyer through Malacca Strait – live|first1=Matthew |last1=Weaver |first2=Tom |last2=McCarthy|date=March 13, 2014|work=The Guardian|access-date=13 March 2014}}

Raddatz appeared as a reporter interviewing the President-elect of the United States in the 2017 episode "Imminent Risk" of the Showtime series Homeland.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/homeland-recap-season-6-episode-7-imminent-risk-1202002378/|title=Homeland Recap: Dar Adal Works All Angles in Episode 7, 'Imminent Risk'|first=Cynthia|last=Littleton|work=Variety|date=March 6, 2017|access-date=March 6, 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/homeland-recap-season-6-episode-7-imminent-risk|title=Homeland Recap: Season 6, Episode 7, 'Imminent Risk'|first=Aaron|last=Riccio|work=Slant Magazine|date=March 5, 2017|access-date=March 6, 2017}}

Personal life

Raddatz resides in Arlington, Virginia, with her third husband, journalist Tom Gjelten. She has two children from two previous marriages: a daughter, Greta Bradlee,{{cite book |chapter=Martha Raddatz |title=Contemporary Authors |location=Detroit |year=2008 |publisher=Gale Biography In Context |access-date=11 June 2011 |chapter-url=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 |id=Gale Document Number: GALE|H1000179311}} and a son, Jake Genachowski.{{cite news |url=https://tvnewsroom.co.uk/biography-images/martha-raddatz-1433/ |access-date=2011-06-11 |date=June 11, 2011 |title=Martha Raddatz is Chief White House correspondent for ABC News |newspaper=TV Newsroom |last=Larkin |first=Johnnie}} Her first husband was Ben Bradlee Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor for The Boston Globe,{{cite news|title=Ben Bradlee Jr.|url=http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/bios/bradlee.htm|access-date=12 October 2012|newspaper=The Boston Globe}} biographer, and son of former Washington Post executive editor Benjamin C. Bradlee.{{cite news|last=Groer|first=Annie|title=Quinn Bradlee to Marry on Greta Bradlee's Long-Planned Wedding Day|url=http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/02/16/quinn-bradlee-to-wed-on-greta-bradlees-long-planned-wedding-day/|newspaper=Politics Daily|date=February 16, 2010|access-date=October 10, 2012|archive-date=October 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014160031/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/02/16/quinn-bradlee-to-wed-on-greta-bradlees-long-planned-wedding-day/|url-status=dead}} Her second husband was Julius Genachowski, chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission under the Obama administration."FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved July 7, 2009 President Barack Obama attended their wedding in 1991, when he and Genachowski were students at Harvard Law School.{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/onpolitics/2012/10/10/martha-raddatz-vice-president-debate-obama-wedding/1624337/|title=ABC News defends Martha Raddatz|work=USA Today|date=October 10, 2012|access-date=May 31, 2018}}

References

External links

[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=127431 Profile] at ABC News
[https://www.npr.org/search/index.php?searchinput=martha+raddatz Martha Raddatz] on NPR
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[http://www.c-span.org/video/?194200-1/qa-martha-raddatz C-SPAN Q&A interview with Raddatz, September 17, 2006]
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?297270-1/qa-martha-raddatz C-SPAN Q&A interview with Raddatz, January 9, 2011]
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[http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/martha-raddatz-long-road-home/ Interview] on The Long Road Home at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library