Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell is a Washington D.C.-based American TV journalist, anchor and anchor and. Mitchell graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in English Literature. Mitchell started her career as a journalist at KYW Radio and TV, Philadelphia in the year 1967. In 1976, she joined CBS affiliate WDVM-TV which was based in Washington DC (then WTOP). She became a Washington general reporter for NBC News two years later. The year 1981 saw her begin reporting on the White House and became chief congressional correspondent in 1988. Mitchell was appointed the Chief White House reporter in 1992, and chief International Affairs correspondent at NBC News. Mitchell was a host as well as a panelist on the TV news program Meet the Press. She served as a panelist in the presidential debates in 1988 between George Bush 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 to recognize her excellence in journalism. In 2004 The Radio-Television News Directors Association gave Mitchell the Leonard Zeidenberg Award to recognize of her contribution to the protection of First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell reported on The White House first for NBC News from 1981 to 1988, between the terms of Ronald Reagan's second term as president. Mitchell reported on a wide range of noteworthy stories including guns control, budget tax reform as well as the Iran-contra saga. She was frequently together with the president Reagan to meet along with Mikhail Gorbachev and other world heads.
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