Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist and a commentator working with NBC News in Washington D.C. she is a TV anchor. She graduated with her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania after growing as a child in New York City. Mitchell began her career as a journalist with KYW Radio and TV, Philadelphia in the year 1967. In 1976, she joined CBS affiliate WDVM-TV which was based in Washington DC (then WTOP). In the following two years, she became an general reporter at NBC News in Washington. She started covering the White House in 1981 and was named chief correspondent for the congressional office within the year 1988. She was named Chief White House reporter in 1992 and was also the Chief of the Foreign Affairs department at NBC News. Mitchell was on the panel of the TV show Meet the Press and also hosted the show. She was on the panel during the 1988 presidential debates between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell received the Goldsmith Career Award in 2005 by the John F. Kennedy School of Government to recognize her excellence in the field of journalism. In 2004, the Radio-Television News Directors Association gave Mitchell the Leonard Zeidenberg Award in recognition of her efforts to protect First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell reported on the White House first for NBC News between 1981-1988, between the terms of Ronald Reagan's second term as president. Mitchell covered a wide range of notable stories, including the Iran-contra affair and budget tax reform. Mitchell traveled with President Ronald Reagan in numerous visits for world summits and wrote often.