Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell is an American anchor for a television newscast and a commentary anchor for NBC News based in Washington D.C. Growing up within New York City, Mitchell obtained a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Mitchell was employed as a reporter by KYW Radio and TV Philadelphia in the year 1967. 1996, she became a reporter for WDVM-TV Washington DC, a CBS-affiliated station (then WTOP). A few years later, she was a general correspondent at NBC News in Washington. In 1981, she began reporting on the White House. In 1988 she was named the chief reporter for Congress. Mitchell became the the chief White House reporter in 1992 as well as the chief Foreign Affairs reporter for NBC News. Mitchell is a regular on the TV news show Meet the Press as a host and panelist. She was a member of an audience for the 1988 debates between George Bush (then president) as well as Michael Dukakis. Mitchell married Alan Greenspan the former chairman of Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell was awarded the Goldsmith Career Award in Journalism in 2005 from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Radio-Television News Directors Association awarded Mitchell Leonard Zeidenberg the award in 2004 for her work to protect First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell's very first White House coverage was for NBC News, between 1981-1988. The time span covered both 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 and went on numerous trips along with the president Reagan to meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev and other world heads.