Martha Raddatz

— -- Martha Raddatz is ABCNEWS' senior national security correspondent.

She joined ABCNEWS in January 1999 as State Department correspondent and began covering the Pentagon in May 2003. She is based in the network's Washington bureau.

Since joining ABCNEWS, Raddatz has covered the Middle East, Africa, Pakistan and India while traveling with the U.S. Secretary of State. Her coverage at the State Department after the attacks of September 11, 2001, was recognized with other ABCNEWS recipients with a Peabody Award.

Raddatz has also been awarded two Emmys for coverage of Kosovo and the Elian Gonzalez case in the news program Weekend World News.

In addition to her work for ABCNEWS, Raddatz has written for The New Republic and is a frequent guest on PBS' Washington Week in Review.

From 1993-1998, Raddatz was the Pentagon correspondent for National Public Radio, where she reported on foreign policy, defense and intelligence issues. During her tenure at NPR, she made numerous trips to eastern Europe to cover the war in Bosnia.

Prior to joining NPR in 1993, Raddatz was the chief correspondent at the ABCNEWS Boston affiliate WCVB-TV. In addition to covering several presidential campaigns, she has traveled extensively, writing and reporting from the former Soviet Union, Africa, the Middle East, the Philippines and Europe.

Raddatz 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. Her reporting was also recognized with the National Headliner Award for team coverage of the 1988 presidential campaign, and two Radio and Television News Director Association (RTNDA) first-place awards. In addition she has received two Associated Press first-place awards.