Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell is an American anchor for a television newscast and a commentator for NBC News based in Washington D.C. After growing up in New York City, Mitchell received a degree in English literature from The University of Pennsylvania. Mitchell began her professional career as a journalist at 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. She was promoted to Washington general reporter to NBC News two years later. In 1981 began reporting on the White House and became chief congressional correspondent in 1988. She was promoted to the chief White House correspondent in 1992 and chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News in 1994. Mitchell was a panelist for the TV program Meet the Press and also hosted the program. She served as a panelist in the presidential debates in 1988 between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married with Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. In 2005, Mitchell was awarded the prestigious Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and in 2004 she was awarded the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) awarded Mitchell by awarding her the Leonard Zeidenberg Award for her contributions to the protection for First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell was a reporter at in the White House first for NBC News between 1981 and 1988, in the two years that Ronald Reagan served as president. Her reporting included a number of crucial stories such as the Iran-contra affair, the tax and budget reforms in addition to the arms control. She traveled extensively together with the president Reagan to meet together with Mikhail Gorbachev.