Andrea Mitchell Biography
Andrea Mitchell is a Washington, D.C.-based American television journalist, anchor, and analyst for NBC News. She is the Chief Foreign Affairs and Washington Correspondent for NBC News, and she covered the 2008 presidential election campaign for NBC News shows such as NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, Today, and MSNBC.
Andrea Mitchell Age
Mitchell is 75 years old as of 2021. She was born on 30 October 1946 in New Rochelle, New York, United States.
Andrea Mitchell Height
Mitchell stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches.
Andrea Mitchell Family
Mitchell, the daughter of Cecile and Sydney (Rubenstein) Mitchell, was raised in a Jewish home in New Rochelle, New York. Her father was the CEO and a partial owner of a Manhattan-based furniture manufacturing company. For 40 years, he was also the president of Beth El Synagogue in New Rochelle. Her mother worked as an administrator at Manhattan’s New York Institute of Technology. In the 1970s, her brother Arthur and his wife, Nancy Mitchell, relocated to British Columbia.
Andrea Mitchell Wife
After a long romance, she married her second husband, then-Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, on April 6, 1997. She was previously married to Gil Jackson, with whom she divorced in the mid-1970s.
Andrea Mitchell Education
In the 2000s, he became a member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly and the leader of the Yukon Liberal Party, having both American and Canadian citizenship. Mitchell is a New Rochelle High School alumni. She went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967. She worked as the news director of the student radio station WXPN while at Penn. She was hired as a reporter at KYW radio in Philadelphia following graduation.
Andrea Mitchell Wife
Mitchell stated on September 7, 2011, that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer a few weeks prior during a doctor’s visit. It was discovered early on and treated.
Andrea Mitchell Plame Affair
The Federal Bureau of Investigation questioned Mitchell after a report in The Washington Post claimed she had disclosed Valerie Plame’s identity. Mitchell was on the subpoena list as a person of interest, although she never appeared before the investigative grand jury or in I. Lewis Libby’s trial.
Mitchell made a statement on the Capitol Report in October 2003 that Libby’s defense interpreted as meaning it was widely known among journalists that Joe Wilson’s wife worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a position she later clarified by responding to the question of how widely Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA in Washington.
Andrea Mitchell Sudanese incident
Mitchell was physically escorted from a room during a news conference in Khartoum in July 2005 after asking Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir some critical questions. “Can you explain to us why the bloodshed is still going on?” and “Can you tell us why the government is helping the militias?” were two of them. “What makes you think Americans will believe your promises?” Two armed security men then grabbed her and pushed her out of the room.
Mitchell stated after the incident, “It is our responsibility to inquire. They can always say “no comment,” but dragging a reporter out just because they asked is inexcusable.” Sudanese officials have indicated reservations about allowing American newspaper or television reporters to join the Sudanese press pool prior to the incident. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Sean McCormack stated to his Sudanese counterpart.
Andrea Mitchell Salary
Mitchell earns an annual salary of around $750,000.
Andrea Mitchell Net Worth
Mitchell has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Andrea Mitchell Romney’s remarks at Wawa
Mitchell and contributor Chris Cillizza laughed when a clip showing presidential candidate Mitt Romney being impressed by a touchscreen at a Wawa convenience store was shown on Andrea Mitchell Reports, alluding to a widely held myth that George H.W. Bush was unfamiliar with a supermarket scanner during an incident during his 1992 campaign. The following day, Mitchell responded to accusations from the Republican National Committee and Romney’s campaign.
Andrea Mitchell Career
In 1976, she joined CBS affiliate WTOP (now WUSA) in Washington, D.C. Mitchell moved to NBC’s network news unit two years later, where she worked as a general correspondent. She became the NBC News energy correspondent in 1979, covering the late-1970s energy crisis as well as the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster. Mitchell worked as a White House correspondent from 1981 to 1988, when he became the chief congressional correspondent. Mitchell began working for NBC News in late July 1978.
Since November 1994, she has served as NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent. She previously worked for NBC News as the Chief White House Correspondent and Chief Congressional Correspondent. Mitchell chronicled her career as a journalist in a book titled Talking Back… to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels, which she released in 2005. Andrea Mitchell Reports, a program on NBC’s news and opinion channel MSNBC, has aired since 2008. It airs at 12:00 p.m. ET on weekdays. Mitchell described the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising as a fight against “the Polish and Nazi administrations” in February 2019. She apologized for her remark on Twitter. Mitchell was prosecuted in Polish court by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance for claiming Poland was complicit in the Holocaust.
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