Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell, an American journalist and a commentator working for NBC News in Washington D.C. she is a TV anchor. She graduated with an undergraduate degree in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania after growing up in New York City. Mitchell began as a radio and TV reporter in Philadelphia, KYW Radio and TV. Mitchell was a reporter at the CBS-affiliated WDVM-TV, (then WTOP) located which was based in Washington DC. After two years, she joined NBC News as a Washington correspondent. Beginning in 1981, she began working for the White House and became chief congressional correspondent in 1988. Mitchell was appointed the chief White House correspondent in 1992 and chief foreign affairs reporter for NBC News in 1994. Mitchell was the host and panelist for the TV news show Meet the Press. She was a member of an advisory panel during the 1988 debates between George Bush (then president) and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell received the Goldsmith Career Award in 2005 by the John F. Kennedy School of Government for excellence in the field of journalism. In 2004, the Radio-Television News Directors Association gave Mitchell the Leonard Zeidenberg Award in recognition of her contribution to defending First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell started covering in the White House in 1981-1988, in both the Reagan presidency. Mitchell covered a number of noteworthy news stories throughout the years, such as fiscal reform, the budget, and The Iran Contra saga. Mitchell traveled frequently along with Reagan as well as Mikhail Gorbachev to world summits.
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