Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell works as a journalist at NBC News based out of Washington D.C. Mitchell has a BA degree in English from University of Pennsylvania. Mitchell began her professional career as a journalist for KYW Radio and TV, Philadelphia in the year 1967. She was then a reporter for the CBS-affiliate WDVM-TV, (then WTOP) located in Washington DC. After two years, she joined NBC News as a Washington reporter. In 1980, she began covering the White House. 1988 became the principal journalist for Congress. Mitchell was named the chief White House correspondent by NBC News in the year 1992. Mitchell has appeared as an anchor and a panelist on the TV news show Meet the Press. Mitchell was a panelist during the 1988 presidential debates between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell married Alan Greenspan the former chairman of Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell was awarded in 2005 her Goldsmith Career Award in Journalism in The John F. Kennedy School of Government. And in 2004 the Radio-Television News Directors Association, (RTNDA), honored Mitchell for her work in the defense of First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell was the first reporter to report on White House stories for NBC News during Ronald Reagan's tenure as president from 1981-1988. The reporting she did included plenty of significant stories, including the Iran-Contra controversy, budget and tax reform, as well as the arms control. Mitchell traveled extensively with President Reagan for summits with Mikhail Gorbachev.






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