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Andrea Mitchell
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Andrea Mitchell is
the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for NBC News, a position
she’s held since November 1994. She reports on evolving foreign
policy issues in the United States and abroad for all NBC News
broadcasts, including “Nightly News with Tom Brokaw,” “Today” and
for MSNBC.
Mitchell’s extensive and varied reports include traveling to Havana,
Cuba for an exclusive interview with Cuban President Fidel Castro
about Elian Gonzalez, the six-year boy that was in the center of an
international custody battle. She also covered such major foreign
policy issues as the airstrikes in Kosovo and Yugoslavia, and was
the only network correspondent who traveled into Belgrade with the
Rev. Jesse Jackson and reported exclusively on the release of the
American POW’s during the NATO/Yugoslav conflict. Mitchell has also
reported on the conflict with Iraq, U.S.-China relations, the Hong
Kong handover, the war in Bosnia, the Middle East peace process,
normalization of relations with Vietnam, the civil war in
Afghanistan, nuclear proliferation in India and Pakistan and
terrorism.
Throughout the 2000 presidential election year, as one of NBC News’
top political correspondents, Mitchell hosted MSNBC’s “The Mitchell
Report,” NBC News’ election year broadcast of record. On her
program, Mitchell interviewed newsmakers both in Washington D.C. and
on the campaign trail, and the broadcast featured NBC News
correspondents and journalists from MSNBC’s alliances including:
Newsweek, The Washington Post, The National Journal,
Hotline and MSNBC.com. In addition, Mitchell was the lead
NBC News correspondent covering the New York State senate race
between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rick Lazio.
Mitchell has also covered a wide range of domestic and political
issues from a post that includes various world hot spots, summits,
Presidential trips, the State Department and the CIA. She has also
reported on the campaign finance investigation, Medicaid fraud, sex
discrimination in the military, gun control and a wide range of
political topics.
Prior to being named Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Mitchell
had been NBC News’ Chief White House Correspondent, a position she
assumed after covering Bill Clinton from the New Hampshire primary
through the entire 1992 presidential campaign. During her time at
the White House, she broke stories on cabinet changes, policy
decisions on gays in the military and military interventions in
Bosnia and Haiti.
From 1988-1992, Mitchell served as Chief Congressional
Correspondent. During that time, she played a major role in
reporting on the budget, the savings and loan bailout, the Clarence
Thomas hearings and other legislative issues. She also served as a
regular political analyst on “Today.”
Mitchell first covered the White House for NBC News from 1981-1988,
during both of Ronald Reagan’s terms as President. She reported on
a variety of noteworthy stories, including arms control, the budget,
tax reform and the Iran-contra scandal, and traveled extensively
with President Reagan to summits with Mikhail Gorbachev and other
world leaders.
Over the years, Mitchell has appeared on “Meet the Press” as a
panelist and substitute host. An acclaimed political reporter, she
has also covered every presidential election since 1976. In fact,
during the 1988 Republican National Convention, she beat both the
competition and presidential candidate George Bush with the
announcement that Bush had chosen Dan Quayle to be his running
mate. She was also a panelist in the final Bush-Dukakis
presidential debate.
Mitchell joined NBC News in 1978 as a general correspondent based in
Washington, D.C. In 1979, she was named NBC News’ Energy
correspondent. In that capacity, she reported on the energy crisis
and the Three Mile Island nuclear incident. Before joining NBC, she
was a correspondent for WDVM-TV (then WTOP), the CBS affiliate in
Washington, D.C. From 1967-1976, she was a broadcast journalist for
KYW Radio and KYW-TV in Philadelphia.
According to the Southern Illinois University’s annual study of
network news correspondents, Mitchell was the most visible woman in
network television in 1999, reporting an impressive 98 stories for
“Nightly News with Tom Brokaw.” In the summer of 1999, she was
nominated for two news Emmy awards for outstanding instant coverage
of a news story for her reporting on the crisis in Iraq and for the
terrorist Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
A native of New York, Mitchell received a B.A. degree in English
literature from the University of Pennsylvania where she currently
serves as a Trustee, a member of the Executive Committee and
Chairman of the Annenberg School Advisory Board.
Mitchell is married to Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan
and resides in Washington. D.C.
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