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 of English Literature. Mitchell started her career as a journalist at KYW Radio and TV, Philadelphia in 1967. Then she became a reporter with the CBS affiliate WDVM-TV, (then WTOP) and was stationed situated in Washington DC. She was promoted to Washington general correspondent for NBC News two years later. Beginning in 1981, she began covering the White House and became chief Congress correspondent in 1988. In 1992, she was made as the Chief White House Correspondent and in 1994 chief foreign affairs reporter at NBC News. Mitchell was a host and panelist in the TV news program Meet the Press. Mitchell joined the panel during the 1988 presidential debates, which pitted George Bush against Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the wife of Alan Greenspan former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell was presented with the Goldsmith Career Award in 2005 by the John F. Kennedy School of Government for excellence in the field of journalism. In 2004 the Radio-Television News Directors Association gave Mitchell the Leonard Zeidenberg Award to recognize of her contribution to the protection of First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell began covering for the White House in 1981-1988 for NBC News during Ronald Reagan's second term as president. She covered many notable stories that included arms control taxes on the budget, as well as the Iran Contra scandal. She also went to numerous summits in the company of President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.