Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist and commentator, who works for NBC News in Washington D.C. She is also a television anchor. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania after growing to be a part of New York City. Mitchell was hired by KYW Radio and TV as an Philadelphia reporter in the year 1967. She was then a reporter for the CBS-affiliate WDVM-TV, (then WTOP) and was stationed in Washington DC. Two years later she became general reporter at NBC News in Washington. 1981 she started covering at the White House, and in 1988 was named chief congressional correspondent. Then, in 1992 she was made Chief White House Correspondent and in 1994 was appointed chief foreign affairs reporter for NBC News. Mitchell appeared as both an anchor and a panelist on the TV news program Meet the Press. Mitchell joined the panel during 1988's presidential debates, in which George Bush against Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the wife of Alan Greenspan a former chairman the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell was presented with the Goldsmith Career Award in 2005 by the John F. Kennedy School of Government to honor her achievements in journalism. In 2004 in 2004, the Radio-Television News Directors Association gave Mitchell the Leonard Zeidenberg Award in recognition for her work in protecting First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell reported on 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. The reporting she did included plenty of crucial stories such as the Iran-Contra controversy, budget and tax reform and also the issue of arms control. She traveled extensively along with the president Reagan for summits together with Mikhail Gorbachev.