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 University of Pennsylvania. Mitchell was hired by KYW Radio and TV as a Philadelphia reporter in the year 1967. She joined the CBS subsidiary WDVM-TV (then WTOP) in Washington DC in 1976. Then she joined NBC News Washington two years following that as a general reporter. She began to cover the White House in 1981 and was named chief correspondent for the congressional office by 1988. She was named the Chief White House Correspondent and in 1994, she was named chief foreign affairs reporter at NBC News. Mitchell was a panelist and anchor of the TV show Meet the Press. She was on the panel during the 1988 presidential debates in the debate between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the wife of Alan Greenspan who was former chairman at 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. The award was presented to her by the Leonard Zeidenberg Award presented by the Radio-Television News Directors Association in 2004. Mitchell was the very first reporter to cover White House stories for NBC News during the presidency of Ronald Reagan as president between 1981 and 1988. Mitchell reported on many noteworthy stories such as arms control, the budget tax and the Iran Contra scandal. She also traveled to numerous summits in the company of the President Reagan with Mikhail Gorbachev.






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