Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist and commentator who works for NBC News in Washington D.C., is a television anchor. She received an Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania after growing as a child in New York City. Mitchell was recruited as a reporter at KYW Radio and TV Philadelphia in 1967. She was a reporter for the CBS affiliate WDVM-TV (then WTOP) in Washington DC in 1976. After two years, she joined NBC News as a Washington reporter. She began covering the White House in 1981 and was promoted to chief congressional correspondent by 1988. Then, in 1992 she was made the Chief White House Correspondent and in 1994, she was named chief foreign affairs reporter at NBC News. Mitchell is a former panelist as well as anchor of the TV program Meet the Press. Mitchell was on an audience for the 1988 debates between George Bush (then president) and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the spouse of Alan Greenspan who was former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. In 2005, Mitchell received the prestigious Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and, in 2004, the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) awarded Mitchell with the Leonard Zeidenberg Award in recognition of her contribution to the protection for First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell was the very first reporter to report on White House stories for NBC News during the presidency of Ronald Reagan as president from 1981-1988. She has covered several notable news stories throughout the years, including the tax reforms, budget reforms, and an investigation into the Iran Contra scandal. She traveled extensively together with Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev to world summits.