Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist and commentator, who works for NBC News in Washington D.C. She is also a television anchor. She earned an undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania after growing as a child in New York City. Mitchell began her professional career as a journalist at KYW Radio and TV, Philadelphia in 1967. In 1976 she joined the CBS affiliate WDVM-TV. (then WTOP in Washington DC). Within two years she was hired by NBC News as a Washington correspondent. She started covering the White House in 1981 and was appointed chief congressional correspondent by 1988. Mitchell was named chief White House correspondent by NBC News, in 1992. Mitchell has appeared as the host and panelist for the TV news program Meet the Press. She was on the panel in 1988's presidential debates that pitted George Bush against Michael Dukakis. Mitchell got married to Alan Greenspan the 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, in 2004, the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) presented Mitchell by awarding her the Leonard Zeidenberg Award in recognition of her contributions to the protection and protection of First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell was a reporter at in the White House first for NBC News between 1981 and 1988 in the two years that Ronald Reagan served as president. Mitchell covered a number of noteworthy news stories throughout the years, including budget reform, tax reform and the Iran Contra scandal. Mitchell traveled extensively along with Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev to world summits.