Club's 2013 Fourth Estate Award To NBC's Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell, veteran NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and host of MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports, has been selected as the 2013 recipient of the Fourth Estate Award, the National Press Club's most-prestigious prize.

Mitchell will receive the award at a gala dinner Friday, October 4. She is the 41st recipient of the Fourth Estate Award, which recognizes a journalist who has made significant contributions to the field through a lifetime of excellence.

"This award honors Andrea Mitchell's more than 45 years in journalism covering everything from the energy crisis and Three Mile Island to presidential campaigns and national security issues," said NPC President Angela Greiling Keane. "Her career already is incredibly distinguished, and she continues to break major stories that set the agenda for many others reporting from Washington and around the world."

Mitchell currently covers foreign policy, intelligence and national security issues, including the diplomacy of Secretary of State John Kerry, for all NBC News outlets. She is one of the first women to cover five presidents, Congress and foreign policy.

"I am thrilled to have been chosen by my peers to receive the Fourth Estate Award for my work at NBC News and MSNBC," said Mitchell. "It is an incredible honor, made even more meaningful because this award began with the late Walter Cronkite and has subsequently been conferred upon my friend and colleague Tom Brokaw. I am humbled to have been selected to join such giants of our profession."

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