Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell (born in New York City) is an American television journalist, commentator and anchor of NBC News based at Washington D.C. Mitchell holds a bachelor's degree in English language from the University of Pennsylvania. In the year 1967, Mitchell became a reporter for KYW Radio and TV in Philadelphia. In 1976 she became a CBS affiliate WDVM-TV. (then WTOP in Washington DC). In Washington she was made general correspondent for NBC News two year later. In 1981, she began covering the White House, and in 1988, she was promoted to chief congressional Correspondent. Mitchell was appointed the Chief White House correspondent in 1992. And Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent at NBC News. Mitchell appeared as both an anchor and a panelist on the TV news program Meet the Press. She served as a panelist in the 1988 presidential debates in the debate between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. In 2005 Mitchell was awarded the highly coveted Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and in 2004 she was awarded the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) honored Mitchell by awarding her the Leonard Zeidenberg Award in recognition of her contribution to the protection for First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell's very first White House coverage was for NBC News, between 1981-1988. It was a time when both Ronald Reagan terms in office. Mitchell covered a variety of notable news reports, including weapons control, the budget tax and the Iran Contra scandal. Mitchell also went to numerous summits in the company of the President Reagan together with Mikhail Gorbachev.