Raddatz was appointed to her current position as ABC's Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent in November 2008, having worked as the corporation's chief White House correspondent for the last term of George Bush's administration.

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. From 1993 to 1998, Raddatz covered the Pentagon for National Public Radio. Prior to joining NPR in 1993, Raddatz was the chief correspondent at the ABC News Boston affiliate WCVB-TV. She is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Long Road Home, a book about the war in Sadr City, 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. SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features - ABC News scores overnight beat on story of al-Zarqawi's death

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. The World Newser

Raddatz resides in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband, journalist Tom Gjelten. She has a son, and a daughter, Greta Bradlee (with her first husband, journalist Ben Bradlee Jr.).