Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell is an American television journalist anchor and anchor and commentator on NBC News based in Washington D.C. Growing up living in New York City, Mitchell earned a BA in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Mitchell started in the field of radio and television reporter at KYW Radio and TV in Philadelphia, KYW Radio and TV. Mitchell joined CBS subsidiary WDVM-TV (then WTOP) in Washington DC in 1976. She joined NBC News Washington two years later as general reporter. In 1980, she began covering the White House. 1988 became the principal journalist for Congress. Mitchell was appointed chief White House reporter in 1992 as well as chief foreign affairs reporter for NBC News. Mitchell was a guest on the TV news program Meet the Press as a panelist and host. She was part of the panel at 1988 presidential debates between George Bush, and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the wife of Alan Greenspan former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell received 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 began covering the White House for NBC News between 1981 and 1988 during the entirety of Ronald Reagan's terms as President. Mitchell covered a range of notable stories, including arms control the budget tax reform as well as the Iran-contra scandal and traveled extensively together with the President Reagan to summits with Mikhail Gorbachev and other world leaders.