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Martha Raddatz (; born February 14, 1953) is an American reporter with ABC News. She is the network's Chief Global Affairs Correspondent. She reports for ABC's ''World News Tonight with David Muir'', ''Nightline'', and other network broadcasts. In addition to her work for ABC News, Raddatz has written for ''The New Republic'' and is a frequent guest on PBS's ''Washington Week''. ''The Guardian'' said Raddatz "is known for having well-cultivated sources inside the defense department." Martha is the primary fill-in anchor on ''This Week with George Stephanopoulos''. ==Career== Prior to 1993, Raddatz was the chief correspondent at the ABC News Boston affiliate WCVB-TV. From 1993 to 1998, Raddatz covered the Pentagon for National Public Radio. Raddatz began her tenure 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. On June 8, 2006, Raddatz received a tip that terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been located and killed. This tip allowed Raddatz and ABC News to become the first news organization in the world to break the news shortly after 2:30 am EST.〔 In a March 24, 2008 extended interview with Dick Cheney conducted in Ankara, Turkey 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 that Cheney responded to by saying "So?" (video ) 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. Raddatz is also the author of the New York Times bestseller ''The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family'', a book about the war in Sadr City, Iraq. After the national security beat, Raddatz become the network's chief White House correspondent for the last term of 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 ring tone 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. Raddatz served as the moderator of the Vice-Presidential debate on October 11, 2012, between Paul Ryan and Joe Biden at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Martha Raddatz to Moderate VP Debate )〕 The debate was later parodied on ''Saturday Night Live'' where she was played by Kate McKinnon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martha Raddatz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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