Martha Raddatz Chief White House Correspondent, ABC News
Reporting by Martha Raddatz has been recognized as far back as 1988 with awards for team coverage of the presidential campaign.
Ms. Raddatz joined ABC News in 1999 as State Department correspondent covering the Middle East. Her coverage of 911 was recognized, along with other ABC News recipients, with Peabody and Emmy awards.
In 2004, she was named ABC Senior National Security Correspondent at the Pentagon and in 2005 was named News Chief White House Correspondent. In that position she reported on all aspects of the Bush administration. In 2006, she broke the story of the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.
Martha Raddatz received two Emmys for coverage of Kosovo and Elian Gonzales. She has been honored for her journalistic contributions many times, including a 1996 Overseas Press Club award for her live coverage of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
She is the author of The Long Road Home a Story of War and Family. The highly acclaimed book made the bestseller lists of the New York Times and the Washington Post, which described it as a masterpiece of literary non-fiction that rivals any war-related classic that has preceded it.
