Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist and a commentator working as a commentator for NBC News in Washington D.C., is a television anchor. She received an undergraduate degree in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania after growing as a child in New York City. In 1967 Mitchell began her career as a reporter with KYW Radio and TV in Philadelphia. In 1976, she was a CBS affiliate WDVM-TV. (then WTOP 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 promoted to chief congressional correspondent by 1988. Mitchell was appointed the chief White House reporter in 1992, and chief Foreign Affairs reporter 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 between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the wife of Alan Greenspan former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. In 2005 Mitchell received the prestigious Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and in 2004 the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) awarded Mitchell by awarding her the Leonard Zeidenberg Award in recognition of her contributions to the protection of First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell's first White House coverage was for NBC News, between 1981-1988. This period included both Ronald Reagan terms in office. The reporting she did included plenty of crucial stories such as the Iran-Contra controversy, tax reform and the budget, as well as the issue of arms control. She traveled extensively with the president Reagan to meet together with Mikhail Gorbachev.

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