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Andrea Mitchell

People · 1946–

Andrea Mitchell

NBC’s chief foreign-affairs correspondent and a Washington institution.

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Andrea Mitchell (born October 30, 1946) is an American television journalist serving as chief foreign affairs correspondent and chief Washington correspondent for NBC News.

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She has hosted MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports since 2008, providing analysis on U.S. politics and global affairs, and has reported from conflict zones including Iraq and Afghanistan while covering eight presidential administrations and numerous international summits. Her career at NBC began in 1979 after early roles in local Washington, D.C., radio and as a researcher for CBS News, following a B.A. in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mitchell's reporting has earned recognition including a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award and the 2022 ICFJ Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism, though her work within NBC— an outlet often critiqued for institutional alignment with Democratic-leaning narratives—has drawn accusations of selective framing in foreign policy coverage, such as downplaying certain administration critiques. She married former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan in 1997 after meeting him professionally in 1983.

In brief

Andrea Mitchell has been in the briefing room longer than some of the secretaries she questions. NBC made her the Washington and foreign-affairs voice; a midday program carried her name for years.

She stepped back from the daily anchor chair and kept the passport. The model is an older kind of correspondent: show up, know the treaty, ask the second question.

Andrea Mitchell
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