Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist and commentator who works at NBC News in Washington D.C. and is a television anchor. Mitchell graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania after growing in New York City. In 1967 Mitchell became a reporter for KYW Radio and TV in Philadelphia. Mitchell was a reporter at the CBS-affiliate WDVM-TV, (then WTOP) which was based within Washington DC. In Washington she was made general correspondent by NBC News a year later. She began covering the White House in 1981 and was promoted to chief congressional correspondent within the year 1988. She was named Chief White House correspondent in 1992 and was named chief foreign affairs correspondent in 1994 for NBC News in 1994. Mitchell appeared as both a presenter and a panelist in the TV news show Meet the Press. Mitchell was a panelist at the debate in 1988 among George Bush & Michael Dukakis. Mitchell has a husband, Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell won the Goldsmith Career Award in Journalism in 2005 from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Radio-Television News Directors Association awarded Mitchell Leonard Zeidenberg the award in 2004 for her role in defending First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell began covering in the White House in 1981-1988 for NBC News during Ronald Reagan's second term as president. Mitchell reported on a wide range of important stories like arms control the budget tax reform, and the Iran-contra scandal. She also went on numerous trips along with the president Reagan to summits along with Mikhail Gorbachev and other world heads.