Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist, and even a commentator at NBC News in Washington D.C. She is also a television anchor. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania after growing in New York City. Mitchell started out as an TV reporter and radio reporter working in Philadelphia, KYW Radio and TV. She joined the CBS subsidiary WDVM-TV (then WTOP) in Washington DC in 1976. In the following two years, she became general correspondent for NBC News in Washington. She began to cover the White House in 1981 and was named chief correspondent for the congressional office within the year 1988. Then, in 1992 she was appointed Chief White House Correspondent and in 1994, she was named chief foreign affairs reporter at NBC News. Mitchell is a regular in the TV news program Meet the Press as a host and panelist. Mitchell was a panelist at the debate in 1988 between George Bush & Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the spouse of Alan Greenspan who was the previous chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell has been awarded the Goldsmith Career Award in Journalism in 2005 by the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Radio-Television News Directors Association awarded Mitchell Leonard Zeidenberg the award in 2004 for her contribution to protect First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell began covering at the White House in 1981-1988 for NBC News during Ronald Reagan's second term as president. Mitchell was a reporter on a range of notable stories, including the Iran-contra case and tax reform. She traveled alongside Ronald Reagan on numerous trips for world summits and wrote extensively.