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 began her professional career as a journalist with KYW Radio and TV, Philadelphia in 1967. In 1976 she was a part of the CBS-affiliated WDVM-TV located in Washington DC (then WTOP). In Washington she was named general correspondent for NBC News a year later. She began to cover the White House in 1981 and was appointed chief congressional correspondent by the year 1988. Then she was named chief White House correspondent in 1992 and chief foreign affairs reporter of NBC News in 1994. Mitchell has been in the TV news program Meet the Press as a panelist as well as host. She served as a panelist during the 1988 presidential debates involving George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the spouse of Alan Greenspan who was the previous chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. In 2005, Mitchell received the highly coveted Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and, in 2004, in 2004, the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) awarded Mitchell with the Leonard Zeidenberg Award for her work in the defense from the infringement of First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell began reporting on for the White House in 1981-1988 for NBC News during Ronald Reagan's second term as president. She covered a myriad of notable stories, including guns control, budget tax reform and the Iran-contra saga. She traveled extensively together with President Reagan for summits along with Mikhail Gorbachev and other world leaders.