Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell works as a journalist at NBC News based out of Washington D.C. Mitchell has an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Mitchell began her career in the field of radio and television reporter in Philadelphia, KYW Radio and TV. Mitchell was a reporter at the CBS-affiliate WDVM-TV, (then WTOP) and was stationed in Washington DC. In the following two years, she was hired by NBC News as a Washington reporter. She began covering the White House in 1981 and was appointed chief congressional correspondent by 1988. Mitchell was promoted to the chief White House correspondent in 1992. And chief foreign affairs Correspondent for NBC News. Mitchell was a panelist as well as anchor of the TV program Meet the Press. Mitchell was a panelist in the 1988 presidential debates with George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell was awarded in 2005 the Goldsmith Career Award in Journalism for The John F. Kennedy School of Government. Also in 2004, Radio-Television News Directors Association, (RTNDA) was honoured Mitchell for her work in defending First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell covered for the White House first for NBC News between 1981 and 1988 in the two years that Ronald Reagan served as president. She covered a wide range of interesting stories such as arm control, budget tax reform as well as the Iran-contra scandal. She also traveled extensively together with the President Reagan to meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev and other world leaders.