13 Facts About Martha Raddatz

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Martha Raddatz is an American reporter with ABC News.

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Martha Raddatz is the network's Chief Global Affairs Correspondent reporting for ABC's World News Tonight with David Muir, Nightline, and other network broadcasts.

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Martha Raddatz is the co-anchor and primary fill-in anchor on This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

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Martha Raddatz attended the University of Utah but dropped out to work at a local station.

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From 1993 to 1998, Martha Raddatz covered the Pentagon for National Public Radio.

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Martha 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.

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On June 8,2006, Martha Raddatz received a tip that terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been located and killed.

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Martha Raddatz is 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.

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

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Martha 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.

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Martha Raddatz 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.

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Martha Raddatz appeared as a reporter interviewing the President-elect of the United States in the 2017 episode "Imminent Risk" of the Showtime series Homeland.

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Martha Raddatz has two children from two previous marriages: a daughter, Greta Bradlee, and a son, Jake Genachowski.