Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell is an American TV journalist anchor and commentator for NBC News based in Washington D.C. Growing up within New York City, Mitchell earned a BA in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Mitchell started her career as a journalist for KYW Radio and TV, Philadelphia in the year 1967. In 1976, she joined the CBS-affiliate WDVM-TV located in Washington DC (then WTOP). She was promoted to Washington general reporter to NBC News two years later. In 1980, she began covering the White House. 1988 became the principal journalist for Congress. She was made the Chief White House correspondent in 1992. and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent at NBC News. Mitchell appeared as both the host and panelist for the TV news show Meet the Press. Mitchell was a panelist at the 1988 debates among George Bush & Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell has been awarded numerous times for journalism excellence, including an award called the Goldsmith Career Award from John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2005. The award was presented to her by the Leonard Zeidenberg Award presented by the Radio-Television News Directors Association in 2004. Mitchell began reporting on in the White House in 1981-1988, and during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. She covered a wide range of notable stories, including weapons control, the budget tax reform as well as the Iran-contra scandal and traveled extensively along with the president Reagan to meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev and other world top leaders.