Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist and commentator, who works with NBC News in Washington D.C. she is a TV anchor. She received an Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania after growing up in New York City. In 1967 Mitchell became a reporter for KYW Radio and TV in Philadelphia. Mitchell joined CBS subsidiary WDVM-TV (then WTOP) in Washington DC in 1976. The following year, she was a general correspondent at NBC News in Washington. She began covering the White House in 1981 and was promoted to chief congressional correspondent in 1988. Mitchell was appointed Chief White House reporter in 1992, and chief Foreign Affairs correspondent at NBC News. Mitchell has appeared as an anchor and a panelist on the TV news show Meet the Press. Mitchell was a part of the panel during the 1988 Presidential Debates, which featured George Bush, and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the wife of Alan Greenspan who was former chairman at Federal Reserve Board. In 2005, Mitchell received 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 for her contributions to the protection and protection of 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. Her reporting included a number of crucial stories such as the Iran-contra scandal, the tax and budget reforms in addition to the issue of arms control. Mitchell traveled extensively with President Reagan to meet together with Mikhail Gorbachev.