Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist and commentator who works as a commentator for NBC News in Washington D.C. She is also a television anchor. She earned an undergraduate degree in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania after growing up in New York City. Mitchell was hired by KYW Radio and TV as an Philadelphia reporter in the year 1967. She was a reporter for the CBS station WDVM-TV (then WTOP) in Washington DC in 1976. A few years later, she was a general reporter for NBC News in Washington. From 1981 onwards, she began reporting on the White House. In 1988 she was named head of the congressional reporters. She became the chief White House reporter in 1992, and chief Foreign Affairs correspondent at NBC News. Mitchell hosted and was panelists on the TV show Meet the Press. She served as a panelist in the presidential debates in 1988 between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the wife of Alan Greenspan 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 in defending First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell first covered in the White House for NBC News between 1981 and 1988 during the entirety of Ronald Reagan's presidency. Mitchell has reported on a variety of notable news stories throughout the years, including the tax reforms, budget reforms and the Iran Contra affair. She traveled extensively along with Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev to world summits.