August 2004

MARTHA TEICHNER
(Correspondent, CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING)

Martha Teichner has been a correspondent for CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING since December 1994. Since joining CBS News in October 1977, she has had a wide-ranging career and has literally covered the world. Her work has been recognized with four Emmy Awards for reports including Princess Diana's death, the Detroit newspaper strike and an employees' lawsuit against the Maytag Company. She has also won two James Beard Foundation Awards for her food-related reporting. Teichner interviewed First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton for SUNDAY MORNING in 1995 and 1997. She also accompanied the First Lady to South Asia, Central Europe, China and Mongolia.

Prior to joining SUNDAY MORNING, Teichner was twice assigned to the CBS News London bureau (1980-84, 1989-94) where she not only covered the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, but also covered many wars as one of only a handful of female battle correspondents. She covered the Maze Prison hunger strike in Northern Ireland, the Lebanon war and the conflicts associated with the collapse of Yugoslavia (Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia). She reported on the fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and the Romanian revolution. She also spent several weeks in the Bolivian jungle covering the undercover operations of the Drug Enforcement Agency.

During the Gulf War, Teichner was one of a small group of journalists allowed by the military to accompany U.S. troops. She spent nearly six weeks with the 1st Armored Division in the Saudi desert, and also covered the conflict from Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan and Israel. For her war reporting, she received a Breakthrough Award, presented by Men, Women and the Media.

Between her two London assignments, Teichner was based in Johannesburg (1987-89) during the final dangerous years of the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. She returned to report on Nelson Mandela's release from prison and later on his election as president of a post-apartheid South Africa.

Teichner spent three years in the Dallas bureau (1984-87), where she covered numerous stories in Latin America, among them the Mexico City earthquake. She began her CBS News career as a correspondent based in the Atlanta bureau (l977-80), where her assignments included the Cuban boatlift to the United States, the war in El Salvador and the exile of the Shah of Iran to Panama. While in Atlanta, she covered a three-month coal miners' strike in 1978 and numerous natural disasters. She was also the reporter for "Exodus: The Freedom Flotilla," a CBS Radio special about the flight of Haitian and Cuban refugees to the United States, for which she received a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.

Teichner began her career at WJEF Radio and WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids, Mich. She then became a general assignment reporter for WTVJ-TV Miami and for WMAQ-TV Chicago.

Teichner has narrated seven "Biography" programs for A&E. She is a member of the New York chapter of the Women's Forum, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Reform Club in London, the International Women's Media Foundation and the Wellesley Club of New York. Since 1995, she has served as moderator of "Conversations with ..." an interview series from the Spoleto Festival, U.S.A., an annual summer arts celebration in Charleston, S.C.

Teichner was born in Traverse City, Mich. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in economics. She attended the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business Administration. She lives in New York City.

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