Martha Raddatz Biography
Martha Raddatz is the co-anchor of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” and the lead foreign affairs correspondent for ABC News. She has spent decades reporting from the Pentagon, the State Department, the White House, and battle zones throughout the world on national security, international policy, and politics.
Martha Raddatz Age
Raddatz is 69 years old as of 2022. She was born on 14 February 1953 in Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States.
Martha Raddatz Height
Raddatz stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches(1.7 m).
Martha Raddatz Family
Raddatz’s family later moved to Salt Lake City. He has not shared any information regarding his loving parents as of now, 2022. Nonetheless, we will update the site as soon as we get more intel from our trusted sources of information as soon as possible.
Martha Raddatz Wife
Raddatz and her third husband, journalist Tom Gjelten, live in Arlington, Virginia. Greta Bradlee, her daughter, and Jake Genachowski, her son, are her children from two prior marriages. Ben Bradlee Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe editor, biographer, and son of former Washington Post executive editor Benjamin C. Bradlee, was her first spouse. Julius Genachowski, the chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission during the Obama administration, was her second spouse. When President Barack Obama and Genachowski were both students at Harvard Law School, they attended their wedding in 1991.
Martha Raddatz Education
She went to the University of Utah but left to work at a local radio station.
Martha Raddatz Career
Martha Raddatz is the co-anchor of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” and the lead foreign affairs correspondent for ABC News. She has spent decades reporting from the Pentagon, the State Department, the White House, and battle zones throughout the world on national security, international policy, and politics.
She began covering combat in the late 1990s during the Bosnian conflict, although she has spent most of her time in Iraq and Afghanistan. She continued to visit war-torn Iraq even while serving as a White House correspondent during President George W. Bush’s administration.
Raddatz spent hundreds of travels abroad with US soldiers, from the deserts of the Al Anbar region to the Hindu Kush mountains. She is the only television reporter permitted to fly in an F-15 fighter plane on combat operations over Afghanistan, where she spent approximately 10 hours in the air on two different missions. She broke unique facts about the attack that killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011. She was one of the few reporters on the last major convoy out of Iraq that same year. She also had an exclusive interview with the Marines who assisted in the rescue of two American pilots who went down in Libya aboard the USS Kearsarge off the coast of Libya.
Raddatz was on a US destroyer as it passed through the Strait of Hormuz in 2012. In 2014, Raddatz covered the attacks against ISIS in Syria and Iraq from the USS George H.W. Bush, and again in March 2016 from the USS Truman. She was given unique access to the anti-ISIS command center in an undisclosed location in the Middle East in 2015, and she hosted “This Week” from a drone warfare air base. Raddatz also covered both of President Donald Trump’s summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and was one of just a few journalists to cover the country in 2018. In addition, she has been to Yemen, Iran, Pakistan, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, India, Turkey, Libya, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and a number of other African and Asian nations for reporting.
Raddatz moderated the only Vice Presidential debate between Congressman Paul Ryan and Vice President Joe Biden in October 2012, which covered both domestic and international issues. Raddatz was praised after the debate for asking incisive questions on a variety of topics while maintaining control over the dialogue. She won the Walter Cronkite Award for political journalistic excellence, with a special mention for debate moderating. During the 2016 presidential election, Raddatz co-moderated the Democratic and Republican primary presidential debates on ABC, as well as a presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, for which she was praised for her moderating abilities once again. Raddatz also covered the insurgency on the Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021, when Trump supporters attempted to alter the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Raddatz was the Pentagon correspondent for National Public Radio from 1993 until 1998. (NPR). She was the top correspondent for the ABC News Boston station WCVB-TV before joining NPR in 1993. She reported from the former Soviet Union, Africa, the Middle East, the Philippines, and Europe, in addition to various presidential campaigns. Raddatz earned the First Amendment Award for excellence in journalism from the Radio Television Digital News Foundation (RTDNF) in 2012. She won four Emmy® Awards, including one for her work covering Barack Obama’s inauguration and the assassination of Osama Bin Laden. She also received the International Urbino Press Award in 2007. She was awarded the George Catlett Marshall Medal in 2018 for her dedication to the men and women of America’s military forces.
Other anchors include Forrest Sawyer, Joan Lunden, Jim Avila, Joan Lunden, Cecily Tynan, Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Michael Strahan, Lara Spencer, Ginger Zee, David Muir, Amy Robach, Kendis Gibson, Diane Macedo, Rob Nelson, Paula Faris, and Reena Ninan.