Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist and commentator, who works with NBC News in Washington D.C. she is a TV anchor. She graduated with an undergraduate degree in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania after growing as a child in New York City. Mitchell started her career as a journalist at KYW Radio and TV, Philadelphia in the year 1967. In 1976 she was a part of the CBS affiliate WDVM-TV located in Washington DC (then WTOP). She was promoted to Washington general reporter with NBC News two years later. She started covering the White House in 1981 and was named chief correspondent for the congressional office in 1988. She was named the Chief White House Correspondent and in 1994, she was named chief foreign affairs reporter at NBC News. Mitchell was a panelist for the TV program Meet the Press and also host of the show. Mitchell participated on a panel during the debates in 1988 among George Bush & Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell received the Goldsmith Career Award in 2005 by the John F. Kennedy School of Government to recognize her excellence in the field of journalism. In 2004, in 2004, the Radio-Television News Directors Association gave Mitchell the Leonard Zeidenberg Award to recognize of her contribution to defending First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell was a reporter at for 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 reported on a variety of noteworthy stories, such as the Iran Contra scandal, the tax reforms to the budget and the arms control. Mitchell traveled along with President Ronald Reagan several times to summits and debate topics like and the Iran Contra controversy.