Vic Ratner Biography
Vic Ratner is a journalist from the United States who has reported for ABC News Radio in 47 countries and 49 states. He has also contributed to World News This Morning, Good Morning America, and the ABC Radio Networks on a range of big news stories.
Vic Ratner Age
He was born and raised in New York, the United States of America.
Vic Ratner Education
He graduated from the Annenberg School of Communications with a master’s degree in mass communications and from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in business.
Vic Ratner Wife- Spouse
He is happily married to his wife, Judith, the two reside in Chevy Chase, MD.
Vic Ratner Career
Ratner was the senior Congressional correspondent for ABC Radio’s comprehensive coverage of President Bill Clinton’s impeachment inquiry and trial in 1999. That was his second impeachment assignment; prior to joining ABC News, he covered the first Watergate burglary trial and the related investigations that ultimately to President Richard Nixon’s resignation. Ratner covered the leading contenders of both political parties through important primary and caucus states for Presidential Politics 2000. He covered the Democratic and Republican conventions for ABC Radio in 1992 and 1996, as well as the Presidential campaigns and elections. He has covered six American Presidents’ journeys and crises. He was also instrumental in ABC News Radio’s coverage of the Egypt Air disaster.
Ratner, an experienced space reporter, was the sole radio network correspondent on the air when the space shuttle Challenger exploded. He was on the air for more than five hours that day, presenting ABC News viewers with on-the-scene updates and background on the tragedy. Ratner has worked as a correspondent, news director, and anchor for radio and television stations in large cities such as New York and Philadelphia. He was the chairman of the executive committee of the House Radio-Television Correspondents’ Gallery in 1997 (one of three press rooms or “galleries” that serve as newsrooms for members of the media that cover the United States House of Representatives).
Ratner has received several honors for his work, including the coveted Ohio State Award and the National Headliner Award. He is a native New Yorker with a master’s degree in mass communications from the Annenberg School for Communication and a bachelor’s degree in management from the University of Pennsylvania. While at the University of Pennsylvania, he was involved with WXPN, the student-run and operated radio station serving Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley at the time, where he broadcast news and other events with the same talent he later developed when he made radio news his job. In January 2014, he announced his retirement from ABC News.
Vic Ratner’s Net Worth
Vic has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
