Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist and commentator, who works with NBC News in Washington D.C. she is a TV anchor. She earned an undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania after growing as a child in New York City. Mitchell began her professional career as a journalist for KYW Radio and TV, Philadelphia in the year 1967. In 1976 she joined the CBS affiliate WDVM-TV. (then WTOP in Washington DC). Within two years she was hired by NBC News as a Washington correspondent. In 1981, she began covering at the White House, and in 1988, she was promoted to chief congressional correspondent. She was named Chief White House correspondent in 1992 and chief foreign affairs reporter for NBC News in 1994. Mitchell has appeared in the TV news show Meet the Press as a panelist and host. She was a member of an audience for the debates of 1988 between George Bush (then president) and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married Alan Greenspan a former chairman the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell won the Goldsmith Career Award in Journalism in 2005, which was awarded by the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Radio-Television News Directors Association awarded Mitchell Leonard Zeidenberg Award in 2004 to recognize her efforts to protect First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell was the first reporter to cover White House stories for NBC News during the time of Ronald Reagan as president between 1981 and 1988. She reported on a variety of interesting stories such as arms control the budget tax reform as well as the Iran-contra scandal and was frequently together with President Reagan to meetings together with Mikhail Gorbachev and other world leaders.