Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell (born in New York City) is a American television reporter, commentator anchor and commentator for NBC News based at Washington D.C. Mitchell holds a bachelor's degree in English language and culture from University of Pennsylvania. In 1967 Mitchell became a reporter for KYW Radio and TV in Philadelphia. In 1976, she was a CBS affiliate WDVM-TV. (then WTOP in Washington DC). The following year, she was general reporter at NBC News in Washington. She started covering the White House in 1981 and was appointed chief congressional correspondent by 1988. Mitchell was appointed the chief White House correspondent in 1992 and the chief foreign affairs reporter of NBC News in 1994. Mitchell has appeared on the TV news program Meet the Press as a panelist and host. She served on an audience for the 1988 presidential debates featuring George Bush (then president) and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the wife of Alan Greenspan a former chairman the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell was awarded 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 reported on the White House first for NBC News between 1981 and 1988 in the two years that Ronald Reagan served as president. She has covered several notable news stories throughout time, including budget reform, tax reform as well as the Iran Contra saga. She traveled frequently together with Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev to world summits.