Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell is a Washington D.C.-based American TV journalist, anchor and anchor and. Mitchell graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a diploma in English literature. Mitchell was recruited as a reporter at KYW Radio and TV Philadelphia in 1967. She was a reporter for the CBS station WDVM-TV (then WTOP) in Washington DC in 1976. Two years later she became a general reporter for NBC News in Washington. In 1981, she began reporting on the White House. In 1988 she became the chief congressional reporter. She was promoted to the chief White House correspondent in 1992 and chief foreign affairs reporter in 1994 for NBC News in 1994. Mitchell is a former panelist as well as anchor of the TV program Meet the Press. She was a member of an audience for the 1988 debates between George Bush (then president) and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the wife of Alan Greenspan former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell was awarded the Goldsmith Career Award in Journalism in 2005, which was awarded by the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Radio-Television News Directors Association awarded Mitchell Leonard Zeidenberg Award in 2004 for her work to protect First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell's very first White House coverage was for NBC News, between 1981-1988. The time span covered the two Ronald Reagan terms in office. Her reporting included a number of significant stories, including the Iran-contra scandal, the tax and budget reforms and also the issue of arms control. She traveled extensively together with President Reagan to meet with Mikhail Gorbachev.