Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell is an American television journalist anchor and anchor and commentator on NBC News based in Washington D.C. Following a childhood living in New York City, Mitchell obtained a bachelor's degree in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Mitchell began her professional career as a journalist at KYW Radio and TV, Philadelphia in the year 1967. In 1976, she joined the CBS affiliate WDVM-TV which was based in Washington DC (then WTOP). In Washington she was made general correspondent by NBC News two year later. She started covering the White House in 1981 and was promoted to chief congressional correspondent by 1988. Mitchell was appointed the chief White House correspondent in 1992 and chief foreign affairs reporter for NBC News in 1994. Mitchell was the host and panelist for the TV news program Meet the Press. Mitchell participated on a panel during the 1988 debates between George Bush & Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell was awarded the Goldsmith Career Award in Journalism in 2005 from 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 initially covered in the White House for NBC News between 1981 and 1988 during the entirety of the terms of President Ronald Reagan. She covered a wide range of interesting stories such as weapons control, the budget tax reform and the Iran-contra scandal and traveled extensively along with President Reagan to meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev and other world heads.






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