Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell is a Washington D.C.-based American TV journalist, anchor and commentator. Mitchell graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a diploma in English Literature. Mitchell started as a radio and TV reporter at the time in Philadelphia, KYW Radio and TV. In 1976 she was a part of the CBS affiliate WDVM-TV located in Washington DC (then WTOP). Two years later she became General Correspondent at NBC News in Washington. Beginning in 1981 she started reporting on the White House. In 1988 she was appointed the top journalist for Congress. In 1992, she became the chief White House Correspondent and in 1994, she was named chief foreign affairs reporter at NBC News. Mitchell has appeared as a presenter and a panelist in the TV news program Meet the Press. She also served as a panelist during the 1988 presidential debates between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell received the Goldsmith Career Award in 2005 by the John F. Kennedy School of Government to recognize her excellence in the field of journalism. In 2004 the Radio-Television News Directors Association gave Mitchell the Leonard Zeidenberg Award to recognize of her contributions to protecting First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell began covering in the White House in 1981-1988 for NBC News during Ronald Reagan's second term as president. Mitchell reported on a wide range of notable stories, including guns control, budget tax reform, and the Iran-contra scandal. Mitchell traveled extensively together with the president Reagan for summits with Mikhail Gorbachev and other world heads.