Martin Fletcher (born 1947) is an English author and former NBC News' Middle East correspondent and Tel Aviv Bureau chief.
He began his career as a television news programming writer for Visnews in the UK in 1970.
He started with NBC News as a cameraman in 1977 in South Africa; after working in the Paris and Frankfurt bureaus he began his Tel Aviv assignment as a network correspondent in 1982.
Fletcher is the author of Breaking News, which has received universal recognition as one of the best books ever on the work of a foreign correspondent.
[citation needed] His second book, Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation, was published in October 2010 and won the American National Jewish Book Award.