Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell is a Washington D.C.-based American TV journalist, anchor, and commentator. Mitchell graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a master's degree of English literature. Mitchell was hired by KYW Radio and TV as the Philadelphia reporter in the year 1967. In 1976, she joined the CBS-affiliated WDVM-TV located in Washington DC (then WTOP). In Washington she was named general reporter by NBC News two year later. 1981 she started covering at the White House, and in 1988 she was appointed the chief congressional Correspondent. She was promoted to the chief White House correspondent in 1992 and the chief foreign affairs correspondent in 1994 for NBC News in 1994. Mitchell was a panelist on the TV program Meet the Press and also was the host for the program. She was on the panel during the 1988 presidential debates between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Mitchell got married to Alan Greenspan the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell was awarded the Goldsmith Career Award in 2005 by the John F. Kennedy School of Government to honor her achievements in the field of journalism. In 2004 the Radio-Television News Directors Association gave Mitchell the Leonard Zeidenberg Award to recognize for her work in protecting First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell began covering the White House in 1981-1988, and during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Her reporting included a number of crucial stories such as the Iran-contra scandal, the budget and tax reform and also the arms control. She traveled extensively along with the president Reagan for summits with Mikhail Gorbachev.






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