Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell works as a journalist at NBC News based out of Washington D.C. Mitchell has earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Mitchell began her career with KYW Radio and TV as the Philadelphia reporter in 1967. In 1976 she became a CBS affiliate WDVM-TV. (then WTOP in Washington DC). In the following two years, she was hired by NBC News as a Washington reporter. 1980 began her coverage of the White House. 1988 became the main congressional reporter. She became chief White House reporter in 1992 as well as the chief Foreign Affairs reporter at NBC News. Mitchell was a panelist for the TV show Meet the Press and also host of the show. She was on the panel during the presidential debates in 1988 in the debate between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married with Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell was presented with the Goldsmith Career Award in 2005 by the John F. Kennedy School of Government for excellence in journalism. In 2004 in 2004, the Radio-Television News Directors Association gave Mitchell the Leonard Zeidenberg Award to recognize for her work in protecting First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell was a reporter at in the White House first for NBC News between the years 1981-88, which was between the terms of Ronald Reagan's second term as president. Mitchell covered a range of notable stories, including weapons control, the budget tax reform and the Iran-contra scandal and was frequently together with the president Reagan to summits together with Mikhail Gorbachev and other world heads.