Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist and commentator, who works as a commentator for NBC News in Washington D.C. she is a TV anchor. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania after growing as a child in New York City. In 1967 Mitchell became a reporter for KYW Radio and TV in Philadelphia. She was a reporter for the CBS subsidiary WDVM-TV (then WTOP) in Washington DC in 1976. In Washington she was named general correspondent by NBC News two year later. 1980 began her coverage of the White House. 1988 became the principal journalist for Congress. Mitchell was appointed Chief White House reporter in 1992, and chief Foreign Affairs reporter at NBC News. Mitchell has appeared as an anchor and a panelist on the TV news program Meet the Press. Mitchell also participated as a panelist in the 1988 debates 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, which was awarded by the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Radio-Television News Directors Association awarded Mitchell Leonard Zeidenberg the award in 2004 for her role to protect First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell began reporting on for the White House in 1981-1988, both during Ronald Reagan's presidency. She covered a wide range of interesting stories such as weapons control, the budget tax reform, and the Iran-contra scandal and traveled extensively together with President Reagan to meetings alongside Mikhail Gorbachev and other world leaders.