Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist and commentator, who works at NBC News in Washington D.C. and is a television anchor. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania after growing up in New York City. In 1967 Mitchell became a reporter for KYW Radio and TV in Philadelphia. She became a reporter for the CBS-affiliate WDVM-TV, (then WTOP), situated in Washington DC. In Washington the following year, she was appointed general correspondent for NBC News a year later. In 1981 she started reporting on the White House. In 1988 she was named the chief congressional reporter. She was named Chief White House reporter in 1992 and the head Foreign Affairs correspondent at NBC News. Mitchell has appeared as a host and panelist in the TV news program Meet the Press. Mitchell was on the panel at the 1988 debates in the 1988 debate between George Bush & Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the wife of Alan Greenspan former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. In 2005 Mitchell was awarded the highly coveted Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and in 2004 The Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) honored Mitchell with the Leonard Zeidenberg Award in recognition of her role in the defense of First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell began covering the White House in 1981-1988 for NBC News during Ronald Reagan's second term as president. Mitchell covered a broad range of interesting stories including the Iran-contra scandal and tax reform. She traveled with Ronald Reagan throughout his numerous trips for world summits and wrote often.