Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell works as a reporter for NBC News based out of Washington D.C. Mitchell has a BA degree in English from University of Pennsylvania. In the year 1967, Mitchell was hired as a reporter at KYW Radio and TV in Philadelphia. She was then a reporter for the CBS-affiliate WDVM-TV, (then WTOP), situated in Washington DC. She was promoted to Washington general correspondent with NBC News two years later. In 1981 began working for the White House and became chief of the congressional reporter in 1988. Mitchell was promoted to Chief White House correspondent in 1992. And the chief correspondent for foreign affairs at NBC News. Mitchell appeared as both a host and panelist in the TV news program Meet the Press. Mitchell was a panelist in 1988's presidential debates in which George Bush against Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell has received numerous awards in journalism, among them her Goldsmith Career Award from John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2005. The award was presented to her with the Leonard Zeidenberg Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association in 2004. Mitchell initially covered in the White House for NBC News between 1981 and 1988 during the entirety of the terms of President Ronald Reagan. Mitchell reported on many noteworthy issues, such as the arm control, the budget tax as well as the Iran Contra scandal. She also traveled to various summits while in the company of the President Reagan together with Mikhail Gorbachev.