David Martin Biography
David Martin is a CBS News television news correspondent, journalist, and author from the United States. He presently serves as the network’s National Security Correspondent, reporting from The Pentagon, a post he has held since 1993. Martin has written for CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes, and 48 Hours.
How old is David Martin? – Age
He was born in Washington, DC on July 28, 1943. He is years as of 2021.
Where did David Martin go to school? – Education
He earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Yale University in 1965.
Martin – Family
He hasn’t mentioned anything concerning his parents and siblings.
Martin’s Wife
He is married to Elinor Martin and they have four kids.
What is Martin Salary?
He earns an estimated salary ranging from 20,000 to $100,000 annually.
Martin Net Worth
His net worth has been estimated to be 1.5.
David Martin Career
Since 1993, David Martin has served as CBS News national security reporter, covering the Pentagon and the State Department. He has covered nearly every significant defense, intelligence, and foreign affairs story for the CBS Evening News, as well as other programs such as 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes Wednesday, and 48 Hours.
Martin broke numerous major stories both before and during the Iraq War. On the first night of the war, he was the first to announce that the US was commencing an attack on Saddam Hussein’s palace bunker in southern Baghdad. Martin also revealed the military’s “shock and awe” tactic for its initial attack on Baghdad.
During a journey to Iraq in May 2003, he was the first journalist to see and report on Dora Farms, where the CIA said Saddam Hussein was hiding on the first night of the war.
In 1983, Martin joined CBS News as a Pentagon correspondent. Later, duties were broadened to encompass State Department and intelligence beats. Prior to that, he worked as a military and intelligence correspondent for Newsweek magazine’s Washington office from 1973 to 1977, covering the FBI and CIA. Martin also worked on the Associated Press’s special assignment team (1977). In 1969, Martin started his journalism career as a researcher for CBS News in New York.
Martin served as a news writer for the Associated Press broadcast wire (1971-72) and as a Washington Journalism Center fellow (1973).
Martin and the Abu Ghraib incident
Martin presented a CBS Evening News report about Torin Nelson, a civilian interrogator in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib jail, in February 2006. Nelson was not involved in any of the abuses, but his name has become associated with the controversy, and he has been unable to work as an interrogator since . However, Martin’s plan was rejected by the producers of Evening News. Martin did talk about the unaired topic on his CBS blog. “I believe part of the reason [the story was turned down] was not because of the news value, but because no one wanted to see those horrific photographs [from Abu Ghraib] on television again,” he wrote.
Awards
In three years, he received two Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards (2002 and 2004).
The Washington Radio & Television Correspondents’ Association awarded the Joan S. Barone Award for excellence in Washington-based national affairs and public policy reporting in 2004.
Books
Martin, David C. published in 2003. A wilderness of Mirrors: Intrigue, Deception and the Secrets That Destroyed Two of the Cold War’s Most Important Agents. Guilford, Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press.
Martin, David C.; Walcott John published in 1988. Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of America’s War Against Terrorism. New York: HarperCollins.