Martha RaddatzSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Martha Raddatz was named Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent for ABC News in November 2008, after serving as chief White House correspondent during the last term of President George W. Bush's administration. In addition to covering the day-to-day foreign and domestic stories from the White House, Raddatz traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan numerous times, and to Iraq nearly 20 times to cover the ongoing conflict.

In the early hours of June 8, 2006, Raddatz was the first correspondent to report that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, had been killed in a U.S. air strike north of Baghdad. In 2007, the White House Correspondents' Association awarded her the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for excellence in presidential news coverage under deadline pressure.Raddatz joined ABC News in January 1999 as the network's State Department correspondent, where she covered the conflict in the Middle East and traveled to Africa, Pakistan and India with Secretary of State Colin Powell. Her coverage at the State Department after the attacks of Sept. 11 was recognized, along with that of other ABC News recipients, with a Peabody Award as well as an Emmy Award.

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