Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell is an American TV journalist anchor and commentator for NBC News based in Washington D.C. Following a childhood within New York City, Mitchell received a degree in English literature at The University of Pennsylvania. In the year 1967, Mitchell was hired as a reporter at KYW Radio and TV in Philadelphia. In 1976 she joined the CBS affiliate WDVM-TV. (then WTOP in Washington DC). After two years, she joined NBC News as a Washington correspondent. She began to cover the White House in 1981 and was named chief correspondent for the congressional office in 1988. Mitchell was appointed the chief White House reporter in 1992 as well as the chief Foreign Affairs reporter at NBC News. Mitchell has appeared in the TV news program Meet the Press as a panelist and host. Mitchell was a panelist at the debates in 1988 with George Bush & Michael Dukakis. Mitchell was married Alan Greenspan the former chairman of Federal Reserve Board. In 2005, Mitchell received the highly coveted Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and in 2004 she was awarded the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) honored Mitchell with the Leonard Zeidenberg Award for her work in the defense and protection of First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell began reporting on for the White House in 1981-1988, and during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. She reported on a variety of interesting stories such as arms control the budget tax reform, and the Iran-contra scandal. She also was frequently with the president Reagan for summits with Mikhail Gorbachev and other world heads.