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 master's degree from the department of English literature. In 1967 Mitchell was hired as a reporter at KYW Radio and TV in Philadelphia. She was a reporter for the CBS affiliate WDVM-TV (then WTOP) in Washington DC in 1976. She became a Washington general reporter with NBC News two years later. She began to cover the White House in 1981 and was named chief correspondent for the congressional office by 1988. In 1992, she was appointed the Chief White House Correspondent and in 1994, she was named chief foreign affairs reporter for NBC News. Mitchell appeared as both a host and panelist in the TV news program Meet the Press. She was part of a panel discussion at the 1988 Presidential Debates between George Bush, and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell was awarded the Goldsmith Career Award in 2005 by the John F. Kennedy School of Government for excellence in journalism. In 2004, the Radio-Television News Directors Association gave Mitchell the Leonard Zeidenberg Award to recognize for her work in protecting First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell's first White House coverage was for NBC News, between 1981-1988. It was a time when the two Ronald Reagan terms in office. She covered a wide range of interesting stories such as arms control the budget tax reform and the Iran-contra scandal. She also went on numerous trips along with President Reagan for summits together with Mikhail Gorbachev and other world top leaders.