Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell works as a journalist for NBC News based out of Washington D.C. Mitchell has an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1967 Mitchell became a reporter for KYW Radio and TV in Philadelphia. 1996, she became a reporter for WDVM-TV Washington DC, a CBS-affiliated station (then WTOP). After two years, she joined NBC News as a Washington correspondent. The year 1981 saw her begin covering the White House and became chief Congress correspondent in 1988. Mitchell was promoted to the Chief White House correspondent in 1992. And Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent at NBC News. Mitchell was a host and panelist in the TV news show Meet the Press. She served as a panelist in the presidential debates in 1988 with George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married Alan Greenspan a former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell received the Goldsmith Career Award in Journalism in 2005 at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Radio-Television News Directors Association awarded Mitchell Leonard Zeidenberg Award in 2004 for her role to protect First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell was the first reporter to report on White House stories for NBC News during the time of Ronald Reagan in office from 1981 to 1988. Mitchell covered a range of interesting stories such as arm control, budget tax reform and the Iran-contra scandal and was frequently together with the President Reagan for summits together with Mikhail Gorbachev and other world leaders.