Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell (born in New York City) is an American television journalist, commentator and anchor for NBC News based at Washington D.C. Mitchell holds a bachelor's degree in English language and culture from University of Pennsylvania. Mitchell was recruited as a reporter by KYW Radio and TV Philadelphia in the year 1967. Mitchell joined CBS subsidiary WDVM-TV (then WTOP) in Washington DC in 1976. A few years later, she was a general reporter for NBC News in Washington. In 1981, she began covering the White House, and in 1988 she was appointed the chief congressional correspondent. She was made chief White House correspondent by NBC News, in 1992. Mitchell appeared as both an anchor and a panelist on the TV news program Meet the Press. Mitchell joined the panel in 1988's presidential debates that pitted George Bush against Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is the wife of Alan Greenspan a former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell received the Goldsmith Career Award in 2005 by the John F. Kennedy School of Government to recognize her excellence in journalism. In 2004 The Radio-Television News Directors Association gave Mitchell the Leonard Zeidenberg Award in recognition of her contribution to defending First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell was a reporter at for the White House first for NBC News between 1981 and 1988, in the two years that Ronald Reagan served as president. Her coverage included a variety of crucial stories such as the Iran-contra scandal, the tax and budget reforms and also the issue of arms control. Mitchell traveled extensively together with President Reagan during summits with Mikhail Gorbachev.

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