Editing Andrea Mitchell (section)

==Early life, education, and early career==
Mitchell was raised in a [[Jewish]] family<ref name="JWI interview">Cantor, Danielle (undated).  [http://www.jwi.org/page.aspx?pid=680 "Andrea Mitchell"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203001021/http://www.jwi.org/page.aspx?pid=680 |date=December 3, 2013 }}.  ''Jewish Woman''.  Retrieved August 2, 2013.</ref> from [[New Rochelle, New York]], the daughter of Sydney Mitchell, a businessman, and his wife, Cecile Mitchell. Her family's original surname was Metchik. The family is of Russian-Jewish descent.

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.<ref name="nyt97">[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/06/style/alan-greenspan-andrea-mitchell.html "Alan Greenspan, Andrea Mitchell"].  ''[[The New York Times]]''. April 6, 1997.</ref> Her brother [[Arthur Mitchell (Yukon politician)|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.<ref name="cbcvotes">[http://www.cbc.ca/yukonvotes2006/parties/mitchell.html Yukon Liberal Party Leader: Arthur Mitchell], cbc.ca. Retrieved 11 February 2012</ref>

Mitchell is a graduate of [[New Rochelle High School]].<ref>{{cite web|title=List of Distinguished Alumni |url=http://nrhs.nred.org/site_res_view_folder.aspx?id=f48013ee-45f7-4e7b-a618-7cdecf8ecaac |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220062113/http://nrhs.nred.org/site_res_view_folder.aspx?id=f48013ee-45f7-4e7b-a618-7cdecf8ecaac |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 20, 2008 |work=New Rochelle High School }} see list of Distinguished Alumni</ref> 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 (AM)|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]].

She moved in 1976 to [[CBS]] affiliate WTOP (now [[WUSA (TV)|WUSA]]) in Washington, D.C. Two years later, Mitchell moved to NBC's network news operation, where she served as a general correspondent. In 1979, she was named NBC News's 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.<ref name="NBC-bio">{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3688874|title=Andrea Mitchell - NBCNightlyNews - About Us |work=[[NBC News]] |date=December 12, 2003 |access-date= February 5, 2013}}</ref>