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Andrea Mitchell Net Worth and Salary?
Andrea Mitchell, the Chief Foreign Affairs & Chief Washington Correspondent for NBC News, has a net worth of $5 million and an annual salary of $750,000. She anchors “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC and has appeared on several television shows, including “30 Rock,” “Political Animals,” “Alpha House,” and “Murphy Brown.” In 2005, she published the book “Talking Back… to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels.”
Early Life and Education
Andrea Mitchell was born on October 30, 1946, in New Rochelle, New York, to parents Cecile and Sydney. She grew up in a Jewish household with siblings Susan and Arthur. Her mother worked as an administrator at the New York Institute of Technology, and her father was a CEO and part-owner of a furniture manufacturing company. Mitchell attended New Rochelle High School before enrolling at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was the news director of WXPN, the student radio station. In 1967, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature.
Andrea Mitchell’s Career Highlights
After working as a reporter at Philadelphia’s KYW radio, Andrea Mitchell was hired by Washington, D.C.’s WTOP and began working as a general correspondent for NBC’s network news. Mitchell became the energy correspondent for NBC News in 1979 and reported on the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island. She began covering the White House in 1981 and was NBC News’ Chief White House Correspondent from 1993 to 1994. Mitchell was NBC’s Chief Congressional Correspondent from 1988 to 1992 and became the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent in 1994.
Andrea reported on the 2008 presidential election for “Today,” “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt,” and MSNBC, and she has appeared on “Meet the Press” more than 50 times as a correspondent, panelist, or guest host. She has appeared in several documentaries, including “Hillary” (2020) and “Velshi” (2020). In 1997, Mitchell competed against Oliver North and Bill Maher on “Jeopardy!” during Power Players Week, and she has been a guest on various comedy and news programs, including “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” and “The Rachel Maddow Show.”
Andrea Mitchell’s Personal Life and Controversies
Andrea Mitchell was married to Gil Jackson from 1970 to 1975 and later married Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan in 1997, with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg officiating the ceremony. In 2011, Mitchell announced her breast cancer diagnosis but had a positive prognosis and returned to work. In 2017, she founded the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy.
In 2003, Mitchell was accused of leaking the identity of CIA Agent Valerie Plame, but she denied the allegation and stated that she learned about it from journalist Bob Novak’s column. Mitchell said she was never questioned by the FBI because she had not received the leak before Novak’s column.
Andrea Mitchell’s Emmy Awards
Andrea Mitchell has been nominated for 16 News & Documentary Emmy Awards, winning two of them. She won the award for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast for “NBC Nightly News” in 2009 and Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form for the NBC News special “Malaysia Flight 17” in 2015.
Most of her nominations have been for “NBC Nightly News” or NBC News specials. However, “Dateline NBC” earned Andrea nominations for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News Magazine (“Katrina: The Fight for Relief”) in 2006 and Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine (“Terror in Paris”) in 2015.
She also received nominations for Outstanding Interview for “Andrea Mitchell Reports” (“Ambassador Nancy Brinker’s First Interview”) in 2013 and Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine for “On Assignment with Richard Engel” (“The Fall of Mosul”) in 2018.
In 2019, the News & Documentary Emmys honored Mitchell with Lifetime Achievement Emmy.
