Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell is an American television anchor and journalist for NBC News based in Washington D.C. As a child in New York City, Mitchell received a degree in English literature at The University of Pennsylvania. In the year 1967, Mitchell started her job as a journalist for KYW Radio and TV in Philadelphia. She was a reporter for the CBS subsidiary WDVM-TV (then WTOP) in Washington DC in 1976. Then, she became a Washington general correspondent for NBC News two years later. Beginning in 1981, she began covering the White House and became chief congressional correspondent in 1988. Mitchell was appointed the Chief White House reporter in 1992 as well as the chief International Affairs correspondent at NBC News. Mitchell played both presenter and a panelist in the TV news show Meet the Press. She was on the panel during the 1988 presidential debates involving George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan who was the former chairman for Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell was presented with the Goldsmith Career Award in 2005 by the John F. Kennedy School of Government for her outstanding performance in the field of journalism. In 2004 it was the year that Radio-Television News Directors Association gave Mitchell the Leonard Zeidenberg Award to recognize of her efforts to protect First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell began reporting on for the White House in 1981-1988 for NBC News during Ronald Reagan's second term as president. Mitchell covered a variety of notable news stories such as arms control, tax reforms to the budget and also the Iran Contra scandal. She also went to many summits with the help of President Reagan with Mikhail Gorbachev.
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