Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell is an American TV journalist anchor and anchor and commentator on NBC News based in Washington D.C. Growing up in New York City, Mitchell received a degree in English literature from The University of Pennsylvania. Mitchell was hired as a reporter for KYW Radio and TV Philadelphia in 1967. In 1976 she joined the CBS affiliate WDVM-TV. (then WTOP in Washington DC). In Washington she was made general correspondent by NBC News two year later. In 1981 began reporting on the White House and became chief Congress correspondent in 1988. She was appointed as the head White House correspondent by NBC News in 1992. Mitchell was a panelist as well as anchor of the TV program Meet the Press. Mitchell was a panelist at the debates in 1988 among George Bush & Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell received in 2005 the Goldsmith Career Award in Journalism in the John F. Kennedy School of Government. And in 2004, Radio-Television News Directors Association, (RTNDA) was honoured Mitchell for her work in defending First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell was a reporter at in the White House first for NBC News between 1981 and 1988, between the terms of Ronald Reagan's second term as president. Her reporting included a number of important stories like the Iran-contra scandal, the tax reform and the budget and also the issue of arms control. She traveled extensively with the president Reagan for summits along with Mikhail Gorbachev.