Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell works as a reporter for NBC News based out of Washington D.C. Mitchell has earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Mitchell started her career as a reporter for KYW Radio and TV, Philadelphia in the year 1967. She joined the CBS subsidiary WDVM-TV (then WTOP) in Washington DC in 1976. Two years later she became general reporter at NBC News in Washington. From 1981 onwards she started reporting from the White House. In 1988 she became the head of the congressional reporters. She was named the chief White House correspondent in 1992 and the chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News in 1994. Mitchell is a former panelist and anchor of the TV show 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 received the Goldsmith Career Award in Journalism in 2005 at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Radio-Television News Directors Association awarded Mitchell Leonard Zeidenberg the award in 2004 for her work in defending First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell's very first White House coverage was for NBC News, between 1981-1988. This period included the two Ronald Reagan terms in office. She reported on a variety of noteworthy stories including arms control the budget tax reform as well as the Iran-contra scandal and went on numerous trips with the President Reagan to summits with Mikhail Gorbachev and other world heads.






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