Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell works as a reporter for NBC News based out of Washington D.C. Mitchell has an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Mitchell was recruited as a reporter at KYW Radio and TV Philadelphia in 1967. In 1976, she was a CBS affiliate WDVM-TV. (then WTOP in Washington DC). Then she joined NBC News Washington two years after that as general 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 at NBC News. Mitchell is a former panelist as well as presenter of the TV program Meet the Press. Mitchell was a panelist during 1988's presidential debates, in which George Bush against Michael Dukakis. Mitchell was married Alan Greenspan the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. In 2005, Mitchell received the highly coveted Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and, in 2004, in 2004, the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) presented Mitchell with the Leonard Zeidenberg Award in recognition of her work in the defense of First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell covered in the White House first for NBC News between 1981 and 1988, in the two years that Ronald Reagan served as president. Mitchell covered a variety of notable news issues, such as the arms control, the budget tax and the Iran Contra scandal. Mitchell also went to many summits with the help of President Reagan along with Mikhail Gorbachev.