Martha Raddatz Bio
Martha Raddatz is a renowned American reporter currently working at 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.
Apart from her work for ABC News, Martha has written for The New Republic and is a frequent guest on PBS’s Washington Week. She is also the co-anchor and primary fill-in anchor on This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
Martha Raddatz Age
Martha is 70 years old as of 2023. She was born on February 14, 1953, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, U.S. Raddatz celebrates her birthday on 14 February every year, and her birth sign is Aquarius.
Martha Raddatz Height
Martha stands tall at an average height of 5 feet 6 inches and she weighs 54kg. She has a very beautiful complexion with brown eyes and blonde hair.
Martha Raddatz Family
Martha was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Her family later moved to Salt Lake City. Our efforts to find out more about her family came to no avail as no such information is publicly available. She attended the University of Utah but dropped out to work at a local station.
Martha Raddatz Husband
Martha is a married woman to her lovely husband journalist Tom Gjelten. The couple got married in 1997. She has two children from two previous marriages a daughter known as Greta Bradlee, and a son, Jake Genachowski. Martha’s first husband was Ben Bradlee Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor for The Boston Globe, biographer, and son of former Washington Post executive editor Benjamin C. Bradlee.
Her second husband was Julius Genachowski, chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission under the Obama administration. President Barack Obama attended their wedding in 1991 when he and Genachowski were students at Harvard Law School.
Martha Raddatz ABC News
Raddatz is the network’s Chief Global Affairs Correspondent reporting for ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir, Nightline, and other network broadcasts. She started working 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.
Raddatz received a tip that terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been located and killed on June 8, 2006. This trip made her and ABC News become the first news organization in the world to break the news shortly after 2:30 a.m. EST
Extended interview with Dick Cheney conducted in Ankara, Turkey, on March 24, 2008, 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?” 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.
Martha 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 ringtone, Chamillionaire’s “Ridin’.” The press corps and Tony Snow enjoyed a few moments of laughter. Raddatz was appointed to her current position as ABC’s Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent in November 2008.
Martha Raddatz Salary
Martha earns an annual salary ranging between $93,429 to $117,963 from her career as a Chief Global Affairs Correspondent reporting for ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir, Nightline, and other network broadcasts.
Martha Raddatz Net worth
Martha has an estimated net worth of $20 million as of 2023. This includes her assets, money, and income. Martha’s primary source of income is his career as a Chief Global Affairs Correspondent reporting for ABC’s World News Tonight.