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. In the year 1967, Mitchell began her career as a reporter with KYW Radio and TV in Philadelphia. Mitchell was hired by the CBS affiliate WDVM-TV (then WTOP) in Washington DC in 1976. In Washington the following year, she was appointed general reporter by NBC News a year later. Since 1981 she began to report on the White House. In 1988 she was promoted to chief congressional reporter. When she joined NBC News in 1992, Mitchell was named to be the chief White House Correspondent and in 1994 she became the chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News. Mitchell appeared as both a host and panelist in the TV news show Meet the Press. She was on the panel during the debates for president in 1988, between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the wife of Alan Greenspan who was the former chairman for Federal Reserve Board. In 2005 Mitchell was awarded the prestigious Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and, in 2004, The Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) recognized Mitchell with the Leonard Zeidenberg Award in recognition of her contributions to the protection from the infringement of First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell first reported on in the White House for NBC News from 1981 to 1988 throughout both the administrations of Ronald Reagan. Mitchell was a reporter on a range of important stories, including the Iran-contra case and tax reform. She was with Ronald Reagan in numerous visits for world summits and wrote extensively.