Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist and commentator, who works with NBC News in Washington D.C. She is also a television anchor. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania after growing as a child in New York City. Mitchell began her career as a reporter for KYW Radio and TV, Philadelphia in the year 1967. She became a reporter for the CBS-affiliated WDVM-TV, (then WTOP) and was stationed in Washington DC. Within two years she was hired by NBC News as a Washington reporter. She started covering the White House in 1981 and was appointed chief congressional correspondent in 1988. She was promoted to the chief White House correspondent in 1992 as well as chief foreign reporter in 1994 for NBC News in 1994. Mitchell is a former panelist and presenter of the TV program Meet the Press. Mitchell participated on a panel during the debate in 1988 among George Bush & Michael Dukakis. Mitchell got married to Alan Greenspan the 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 covered the White House first for NBC News between 1981 and 1988, in the two years that Ronald Reagan served as president. Mitchell covered a variety of notable news reports, including weapons control, budget taxes as well as the Iran Contra scandal. She also traveled to various summits while in the company of the President Reagan along with Mikhail Gorbachev.