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 master's degree of English literature. Mitchell was employed as a reporter for KYW Radio and TV Philadelphia in 1967. She was then a reporter for the CBS-affiliate WDVM-TV, (then WTOP) and was stationed in Washington DC. She became a Washington general correspondent with NBC News two years later. 1981 was the year she began reporting on the White House, and in 1988, she was promoted to chief congressional Correspondent. She was named the chief White House correspondent in 1992 as well as chief foreign correspondent in 1994 for NBC News in 1994. Mitchell has been a panelist as well as anchor of the TV program Meet the Press. Mitchell was a panelist in the presidential debates in 1988 in the debate between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell married Alan Greenspan the 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 to recognize her excellence in the field of journalism. In 2004, the Radio-Television News Directors Association gave Mitchell the Leonard Zeidenberg Award in recognition of her contribution to defending First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell began covering for the White House in 1981-1988, both during Ronald Reagan's presidency. She reported on a variety of interesting stories such as arm control, budget tax reform, and the Iran-contra scandal and traveled extensively along with President Reagan for summits alongside Mikhail Gorbachev and other world heads.