Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell works as a journalist for NBC News based out of Washington D.C. Mitchell has a BA degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Mitchell was hired by KYW Radio and TV as the Philadelphia reporter in the year 1967. In 1976 she became a CBS affiliate WDVM-TV. (then WTOP in Washington DC). In the following two years, she was hired by NBC News as a Washington reporter. In 1981, she began reporting on the White House. In 1988 she was named chief congressional reporter. She was named Chief White House correspondent in 1992 as well as chief foreign reporter of NBC News in 1994. Mitchell hosted and was a panelist at the TV show Meet the Press. She served on a panel for the debates of 1988 between George Bush (then president) as well as Michael Dukakis. Mitchell got married to Alan Greenspan the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell received the Goldsmith Career Award in Journalism in 2005, which was awarded by the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Radio-Television News Directors Association awarded Mitchell Leonard Zeidenberg Award in 2004 to recognize her efforts in protecting First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell covered for the White House first for NBC News between 1981 and 1988, between the terms of Ronald Reagan's second term as president. Mitchell reported on many noteworthy reports, including arms control, the budget tax and the Iran Contra scandal. She also traveled to many summits with the help of President Reagan with Mikhail Gorbachev.






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