Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist and commentator who works with NBC News in Washington D.C. she is a TV anchor. She earned an Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania after growing up in New York City. Mitchell began her career with KYW Radio and TV as an Philadelphia reporter in 1967. Mitchell joined CBS station WDVM-TV (then WTOP) in Washington DC in 1976. Then she joined NBC News Washington two years later as a general reporter. In 1981, she began covering the White House, and in 1988 she was appointed the chief congressional correspondent. Mitchell was named as the head White House correspondent by NBC News in the year 1992. Mitchell has been a panelist and anchor of the TV show Meet the Press. Mitchell was a panelist in the 1988 presidential debates with George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married with Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell won 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 to recognize her efforts to protect First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell was the first journalist to report on White House stories for NBC News during Ronald Reagan's tenure as president between 1981 and 1988. Her coverage included a variety of significant stories, including the Iran-Contra controversy, tax and budget reforms and also the issue of arms control. She traveled widely along with the president Reagan to meet with Mikhail Gorbachev.