Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell works as a journalist for NBC News based out of Washington D.C. Mitchell has earned a bachelor's degree in English from University of Pennsylvania. Mitchell began her professional career as a journalist for KYW Radio and TV, Philadelphia in 1967. She was a reporter for the CBS affiliate WDVM-TV (then WTOP) in Washington DC in 1976. She joined NBC News Washington two years later as general reporter. In 1980, she began covering the White House. 1988 became the principal journalist for Congress. Mitchell was appointed Chief White House correspondent in 1992 as well as chief foreign reporter for NBC News in 1994. Mitchell was a panelist for the TV show Meet the Press and also was the host for the program. Mitchell was on an advisory panel during the 1988 debates between George Bush (then president) and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the wife of Alan Greenspan former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell received the Goldsmith Career Award in Journalism in 2005, which was awarded by the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Radio-Television News Directors Association awarded Mitchell Leonard Zeidenberg Award in 2004 for her work in defending First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell started covering in the White House in 1981-1988, in both the Reagan presidency. Mitchell was a reporter on a range of important stories including the Iran-Contra scandal as well as fiscal tax reforms, as well as arms control. Mitchell traveled with Reagan on numerous occasions to meet with Reagan many times to summits and debate matters such as that of the Iran Contra controversy.