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. Mitchell began her career with KYW Radio and TV as an Philadelphia reporter in the year 1967. In 1976 she was a part of the CBS affiliate WDVM-TV located in Washington DC (then WTOP). In Washington she was made general reporter by NBC News two year later. In 1981 she began covering the White House. In 1988 she became the chief congressional reporter. She became the chief White House reporter in 1992, and chief Foreign Affairs reporter at NBC News. Mitchell was host and a panelist at the TV program Meet the Press. Mitchell joined the panel of the 1988 presidential debates which pitted George Bush against Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan who was former chairman at Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell won 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 in defending First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell began covering for the White House in 1981-1988, in both the Reagan presidency. Mitchell reported on many noteworthy issues, such as the arm control, the budget tax and the Iran Contra scandal. She also traveled to numerous summits in the company of the President Reagan together with Mikhail Gorbachev.