Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell is a Washington D.C.-based American TV journalist, anchor and anchor and. Mitchell graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree from the department of English literature. Mitchell started as a radio and TV reporter for Philadelphia, KYW Radio and TV. In 1976 she was a part of the CBS affiliate WDVM-TV in Washington DC (then WTOP). Two years later she became a general correspondent at NBC News in Washington. Beginning in 1981, she began reporting on the White House and became chief congressional correspondent in 1988. Mitchell became the chief White House reporter in 1992 as well as chief foreign affairs reporter for NBC News. Mitchell is a former panelist, as well as presenter of the TV show Meet the Press. Mitchell was a panelist at the debates in 1988 among George Bush & Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan who was former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell was awarded 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 Award in 2004 for her role in defending First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell was a reporter at in the White House first for NBC News between 1981 and 1988 in the two years that Ronald Reagan served as president. Mitchell covered a number of noteworthy stories over the years, including the tax reforms, budget reforms as well as the Iran Contra saga. She travelled frequently together with Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev to world summits.