Career
She is the network"s Chief Global Affairs Correspondent. She reports for American Broadcasting Company"s World News Tonight with David Muir, Nightline, and other network broadcasts. In addition to her work for American Broadcasting Company News, Raddatz has written for The New Republic and is a frequent guest on Public Broadcasting Service"s Washington Week.
The Guardian said Raddatz "is known for having well-cultivated sources inside the defense department." Martha is the primary fill-in anchor on This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
Prior to 1993, Raddatz was the chief correspondent at the American Broadcasting Company News Boston affiliate WCVB-television From 1993 to 1998, Raddatz covered the Pentagon for National Public Radio. Raddatz began her tenure at American Broadcasting Company News in 1999 as the network"s State Department correspondent and became American Broadcasting Company"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. 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 war in Sadr City, Iraq.
After the national security beat, Raddatz become the network"s chief White House correspondent for the last term of George West. 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. Raddatz was appointed to her current position as American Broadcasting Company"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.
The debate was later parodied on Saturday Night Live where Raddatz was played by Kate McKinnon.