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Introduction
Andrea Mitchell is an American television journalist, anchor, and commentator for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C. She is the NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs & Chief Washington Correspondent, and reported on the 2008 presidential election campaign for NBC News broadcasts, including NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, Today, and MSNBC.
She anchors Andrea Mitchell Reports airing from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. ET weekdays on MSNBC, has appeared on and guest hosted Meet the Press, and is often a guest on Hardball with Chris Matthews and The Rachel Maddow Show. In 2019, Mitchell earned a Lifetime Achievement Emmy for her journalistic work.
Early life
| Name | Andrea Mitchell |
| Net Worth | $5 million |
| Salary | $1.5 million |
| Occupation | Tv journalist, Anchor, Commentator |
| Age | 75 years |
| Height | 1.73m |
Andrea Mitchell was born on October 30, 1946 (age 75 years) in New Rochelle, New York, United States. She was raised in a Jewish family. Andrea is the daughter of Cecile and Sydney (Rubenstein) Mitchell. Her father was the chief executive officer and partial owner of a furniture manufacturing company in Manhattan. He was also the president of Beth El Synagogue in New Rochelle for 40 years. Her mother was an administrator at the New York Institute of Technology in Manhattan.
Mitchell’s brother Arthur and his wife, Nancy Mitchell, moved to British Columbia in the 1970s. He has dual American and Canadian citizenship, becoming a member of the Legislative Assembly of Yukon and the leader of the Yukon Liberal Party in the 2000s. Andrea Mitchell graduated from New Rochelle High School. She went on to attend the University of Pennsylvania where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature in 1967. While at Penn, she served as news director of student radio station WXPN. Staying in Philadelphia after graduation, she was hired as a reporter at KYW radio.
She rose to prominence as the station’s City Hall correspondent, during Mayor Frank Rizzo’s administration and also reported for sister station KYW-TV. Andrea Mitchell moved to CBS-affiliate WTOP (now WUSA) in Washington, D.C., in 1976. Two years later, Mitchell moved to NBC’s network news operation, where she served as a general correspondent. In 1979, she was named the NBC News energy correspondent and reported on the late-1970s energy crisis and the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. Mitchell also covered the White House from 1981 until becoming chief congressional correspondent in 1988.
Career
Andrea Mitchell has been with NBC News since late July 1978. She has been the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for NBC News since November 1994. Previously, she had served as Chief White House Correspondent (1993–1994) and Chief Congressional Correspondent (1988–1992) for NBC News.
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Mitchell published a book in 2005 titled Talking Back… to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels (ISBN 978-0-143-03873-3), chronicling her work as a journalist. Since 2008, Mitchell has hosted a program on NBC’s news and commentary channel MSNBC titled Andrea Mitchell Reports. It broadcasts on weekdays at 12:00 noon ET.
Controversies
Plame affair: A report in The Washington Post (“Bush Administration Is Focus of Inquiry CIA Agent’s Identity Was Leaked to Media” by Mike Allen and Dana Priest, The Washington Post, September 28, 2003) that Mitchell had leaked Valerie Plame’s identity led to her being questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. While Mitchell never appeared before the investigating grand jury or in I. Lewis Libby’s trial, she was on the subpoena list as a person of interest.
In October 2003, on the Capitol Report, Mitchell made a statement that Libby’s defense construed to mean it was widely known among journalists that Joe Wilson’s wife was in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a position she later clarified by answering the question of how widely known it was in Washington that Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA: “It was widely known amongst those of us who cover the intelligence community and who were actively engaged in trying to track down who among the foreign service community was the envoy to Niger. But frankly I wasn’t aware of her actual role at the CIA and the fact that she had a covert role involving weapons of mass destruction, not until Bob Novak wrote it.”
During a July 2005 news conference in Khartoum, Andrea Mitchell was forcibly ejected from a room after asking Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir some pointed questions. They included: “Can you tell us why the violence is continuing?” (referring to genocide in Sudan’s Darfur province) and “Can you tell us why the government is supporting the militias?” “Why should Americans believe your promises?” At this point, two armed security guards grabbed her and forcibly shoved her out of the room. After the incident, Mitchell said, “It is our job to ask. They can always say ‘no comment’… but to drag a reporter out just for asking is inexcusable behavior.”
Prior to the incident, Sudanese officials expressed reservations about allowing American newspaper or television reporters to join the Sudanese press pool. Sean McCormack, the State Department’s assistant secretary for public affairs, said to his Sudanese counterpart, “I’ll convey your desires about not permitting reporters to ask questions, but that’s all I’ll do. We have a free press.” McCormack’s Sudanese counterpart replied, “There is no freedom of the press here.”
Andrea Mitchell referred to the voters of the southwest Virginia region as rednecks during an appearance on MSNBC on June 5, 2008. On June 9, she apologized on air, saying “I owe an apology to the good people of Bristol, Virginia, for something stupid th at I said last week. I was trying to explain, based on reporting from Democratic strategists, why Barack Obama was campaigning in southwest Virginia, but without attribution or explanation, I used term strategists often use to demean an entire community. No excuses, I’m really sorry.”
Having been led to believe that a clip showed that presidential candidate Mitt Romney was impressed by a touchscreen at a Wawa convenience store, Mitchell and contributor Chris Cillizza laughed when it was shown on Andrea Mitchell Reports, alluding to a widely held myth that George H. W. Bush was unfamiliar with a supermarket scanner in an incident during his 1992 campaign. She suggested this might be Romney’s “supermarket scanner moment.”
Andrea Mitchell said, “I get the feeling that Mitt Romney has not been in too many Wawas along the roadside of Pennsylvania.” The full clip puts his comments in the context of his claim that Wawa’s “touchtone keypads” (touchscreens) show efficiency in the private sector compared to his statement that it took multiple filings of a 33-page government form for an optometrist to change his address.
Mitchell briefly addressed complaints from the Republican National Committee and Romney’s campaign the following day. Introducing the full clip, Mitchell stated, “The RNC and the campaign both reached out to us, saying that Romney had more to say on that visit about federal bureaucracy and innovation in the private sector. We didn’t get a chance to play that, so here it is now.”
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In February 2019, Mitchell characterized the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising as being against “the Polish and Nazi regimes.” She apologized on Twitter for her comment. The Polish Institute of National Remembrance sued Mitchell in Polish court for alleging that Poland played a role in the Holocaust
Husband
Andrea Mitchell is married to her second husband Alan Greenspan, they had their wedding ceremony on April 6, 1997, following a lengthy relationship. Her husband was a Federal Reserve Chair. However, she married her first husband Gil Jackson in 1970; that marriage ended in divorce in the mid-1975s. On September 7, 2011, Mitchell revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer during a doctor’s visit a few weeks earlier. It was caught early and treated. As of mid-2022, Andrea Mitchell and her husband Alan Greenspan are still married and they have no children together.
Andrea Mitchell net worth
How much is Andrea Mitchell worth? Andrea Mitchell net worth is estimated at around $5 million. Her main source of income is from her career as a television journalist, anchor, and commentator. Andrea Mitchell’s salary per month with other career earnings is over $1.5 million annually. She is one of the richest and most influential journalists in the United States. Her successful career has earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy car trips. Andrea Mitchell stands at an appealing height of 1.73m and has a good body weight which suits her personality.