Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist and commentator who works for NBC News in Washington D.C. She is also a television anchor. She graduated with an undergraduate degree in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania after growing up in New York City. Mitchell was hired by KYW Radio and TV as a Philadelphia reporter in 1967. In 1976, she was a CBS affiliate WDVM-TV. (then WTOP in Washington DC). Then, she became a Washington general reporter with NBC News two years later. 1981 was the year she began reporting on the White House, and in 1988, she was promoted to Chief Correspondent to Congress. She was promoted to the chief White House correspondent in 1992 and chief foreign affairs reporter in 1994 for NBC News in 1994. Mitchell is a former panelist as well as presenter of the TV show Meet the Press. Mitchell also participated as a panelist in the 1988 debates with George Bush & Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the wife of Alan Greenspan former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell received 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 the award in 2004 for her work in defending First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell was a reporter at the White House first for NBC News between the years 1981-88, which was in the two years that Ronald Reagan served as president. Mitchell covered a wide range of important stories including the Iran-Contra scandal, budget tax reforms and arms control. Mitchell traveled with President Ronald Reagan several times to summits and debate matters like and the Iran Contra scandal.