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 1967 Mitchell became a reporter for KYW Radio and TV in Philadelphia. She was a reporter for the CBS station WDVM-TV (then WTOP) in Washington DC in 1976. In Washington she was named general reporter by NBC News a year later. The year 1981 saw her begin working for the White House and became chief of the congressional reporter in 1988. Then, in 1992 she was made Chief White House Correspondent and in 1994 chief foreign affairs reporter in NBC News. Mitchell has appeared as a presenter and a panelist in the TV news show Meet the Press. Mitchell also participated as a panelist in the debate in 1988 with George Bush & Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell received the Goldsmith Career Award in Journalism in 2005 from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Radio-Television News Directors Association awarded Mitchell Leonard Zeidenberg the award in 2004 to recognize her efforts to defend First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell began reporting on the White House in 1981-1988 for NBC News during Ronald Reagan's second term as president. Mitchell covered a broad range of notable stories, including the Iran-contra affair and budget tax reform. She traveled alongside Ronald Reagan in numerous visits for world summits and wrote often.