Martha Raddatz

Martha Raddatz has been married to journalist Tom Gjelten since 1997. She was previously married to Ben Bradlee Jr. from 1979 to 1991 and to Julius Genachowski from 1991 to 1997.

She has two children, Greta Bradlee and Jake Genachowski. Her first husband, Ben Bradlee Jr., was a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor for The Boston Globe, while Genachowski later chaired the Federal Communications Commission.

Raddatz began her journalism career at a local Boston station and later became chief correspondent at WCVB-TV, the ABC News affiliate in Boston. From 1993 to 1998, she was National Public Radio's Pentagon correspondent.

She joined ABC News in 1999 as the network's State Department correspondent. In May 2003, she became senior national security correspondent, a role that brought extensive reporting from Iraq and other conflict zones.

Raddatz began covering wars during the crisis in Bosnia in the late 1990s, and Iraq and Afghanistan became major parts of her overseas reporting. She was embedded with U.S. forces on dozens of trips and reported from locations including Al Anbar province and the Hindu Kush.

She was the only television reporter permitted to fly in an F-15 fighter jet on combat missions over Afghanistan, spending nearly 10 hours in the air across two missions. In 2011, she reported exclusive details about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and was among a small group of reporters on the last major convoy out of Iraq.

Her other assignments included reporting from the USS Kearsarge after Marines rescued two American pilots in Libya, from a U.S. destroyer traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, and from the USS George H.W. Bush and USS Truman during operations against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. She also received exclusive access to an anti-ISIS command center and anchored This Week from an airbase involved in drone warfare.

Raddatz has reported from countries including Yemen, Iran, Pakistan, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, India, Turkey, Libya, Oman and the United Arab Emirates. In 2018, she was one of only a handful of journalists to report from North Korea during coverage of the summits between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un.

After working on the national security beat, Raddatz became ABC News chief White House correspondent during the final term of George W. Bush's administration. She was appointed senior foreign affairs correspondent in November 2008 and later became chief global affairs correspondent.

Raddatz moderated the October 2012 vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan. Her pointed questioning and control of the discussion earned praise, and she received the Walter Cronkite Award for excellence in political journalism with a special commendation for debate moderation.

She co-moderated ABC's Democratic and Republican primary presidential debates during the 2016 election and joined Anderson Cooper as co-moderator of the presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. In January 2016, she became co-anchor of This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

Her later reporting included coverage of the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, a 2023 interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, and reporting from Israel during the Israel-Hamas war.

Raddatz wrote The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family, a book about a battle in Iraq. It reached the bestseller lists of The New York Times and The Washington Post.

In 2017, the book was adapted into an eight-part scripted miniseries that aired on the National Geographic Channel. Raddatz was credited as a writer on all eight episodes.

Raddatz appeared as a reporter interviewing the president-elect in the 2017 episode "Imminent Risk" of the Showtime series Homeland. She also appeared as herself in House of Cards and in World News Tonight with David Muir.

She received seven Emmy Awards, including recognition for coverage of Barack Obama's inauguration and the killing of Osama bin Laden. She was also part of the team that received a Peabody Award for coverage of the September 11 attacks.

Her other honors include the 1996 Overseas Press Club Award for live coverage of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the 2005 Daniel Pearl Award, the 2007 Merriman Smith Memorial Award, the 2012 First Amendment Award and Fred Friendly First Amendment Award, and the 2018 George Catlett Marshall Medal.