Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell is a Washington D.C.-based American TV journalist, anchor and commentator. Mitchell graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in English Literature. In the year 1967, Mitchell started her job as a journalist for KYW Radio and TV in Philadelphia. She was then a reporter for the CBS affiliate WDVM-TV, (then WTOP), within Washington DC. In Washington she was made general reporter by NBC News a year later. Beginning in 1981, she began reporting on the White House. In 1988, she became the chief congressional reporter. She was appointed chief congressional correspondent in the year 1992. became the chief White House Correspondent and in 1994 chief foreign affairs reporter at NBC News. Mitchell has appeared on the TV news show Meet the Press as a panelist and host. She joined the panel during the 1988 presidential debates, which pitted George Bush against Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan who was the ex-chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell received the Goldsmith Career Award in 2005 by the John F. Kennedy School of Government for outstanding achievement in the field of journalism. In 2004 it was the year that Radio-Television News Directors Association gave Mitchell the Leonard Zeidenberg Award to recognize of her efforts to protect First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell first covered at the White House for NBC News from 1981 to 1988 throughout both the administrations of Ronald Reagan. She covered a myriad of noteworthy stories including weapons control, the tax reform for the budget and the Iran-contra scandal and visited extensively in the company of President Reagan to summits along with Mikhail Gorbachev and other world top leaders.