Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist and a commentator working with NBC News in Washington D.C. She is also a television anchor. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania after growing up in New York City. Mitchell was employed as a reporter by KYW Radio and TV Philadelphia in the year 1967. 1996, she joined WDVM-TV Washington DC, a CBS-affiliated station (then WTOP). She became a Washington general reporter with NBC News two years later. She began covering the White House in 1981 and was named chief correspondent for the congressional office by 1988. Mitchell was appointed the chief White House reporter in 1992 as well as chief foreign affairs reporter at NBC News. Mitchell has been a panelist as well as presenter of the TV show Meet the Press. She was on the panel in the presidential debates in 1988 between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell married Alan Greenspan the former chairman of Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell was awarded numerous honors in journalism, among them an award called the Goldsmith Career Award from John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2005. She was also honored with the Leonard Zeidenberg Award presented by the Radio-Television News Directors Association in 2004. Mitchell covered for 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 number of noteworthy news stories throughout the years, such as fiscal reform, the budget and an investigation into the Iran Contra affair. She travelled frequently along with Reagan as well as Mikhail Gorbachev to world summits.