Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist and a commentator working with NBC News in Washington D.C. she is a TV anchor. She received an Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania after growing to be a part of New York City. In 1967 Mitchell became a reporter for KYW Radio and TV in Philadelphia. She was then a reporter for the CBS affiliate WDVM-TV, (then WTOP) and was stationed which was based in Washington DC. Then she joined NBC News Washington two years later as a general reporter. From 1981 onwards she started reporting from the White House. In 1988 she was named the chief reporter for Congress. Then, in 1992 she was made chief White House Correspondent and in 1994, she was named chief foreign affairs reporter of NBC News. Mitchell is a regular in the TV news show Meet the Press as a panelist and host. She was on the panel during the presidential debates in 1988 in the debate between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the wife of Alan Greenspan who was former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell was awarded 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 covered the White House first for NBC News between 1981 and 1988, between the terms of Ronald Reagan's second term as president. Mitchell covered a variety of notable news issues, such as the weapons control, the budget tax as well as the Iran Contra scandal. Mitchell also went to numerous summits in the company of the President Reagan along with Mikhail Gorbachev.