Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell is an American television journalist, anchor, reporter and commentator for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth30 October 1946
CityNew Rochelle, NY
CountryUnited States of America
determined kerry people
This was tough. The Kerry people were determined not to have a leak.
art college people
When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.
cities people care
Washington was not just a city of marble buildings and smoke-filled rooms and power brokers, but also a town full of people who do care about each other, in good times and bad.
people grace news
... I still have sympathy for some of the people who've fallen from grace in Washington. The feeding frenzy can be so unforgiving, especially in this day of nonstop cable news.
driven
You know, he's not going to have a car. He hasn't driven for 18 years.
luck phone
Frankly, I don't think it was luck. I must have made 100 phone calls.
honest washington
I was stricken. I think that was his honest response, unfiltered by the conventions of Washington and the corridors of the Senate.
american-journalist grownup perhaps
Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.
taking terribly time
I feel terribly guilty. I'm not used to taking off time at all.
american-journalist calling interviews locations work
To get interviews for their newscasts, I'd work the phones, calling locations to find someone I could interview when a story broke.
behind came dragged event grabbed guys pain pulled
Two guys came up behind me, grabbed me, and pulled me out, ... I was in a lot of pain. It was really humiliating to be dragged out of an event in a president's office.
american-journalist dollars drop job newsroom program union
Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.
came home reporter small wedding
It's really exciting, isn't it? We came home and he said, 'Do you want a big wedding or a small wedding?' Here I am a hard-boiled reporter and I have got butterflies.
american-journalist coverage ivy league member
It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night.