NBC’s Andrea Mitchell Is TV’s Iron Woman

At a time in her life when many of her contemporaries are trading in their press passes for a ticket to retirement’s easy street, NBC’s ageless whirlwind, Andrea Mitchell, is stepping it up, accordinh to Paul Bedard's Washington Whispers blog at usnews.com.

The network’s chief foreign affairs correspondent, who also hosts the hour-long Andrea Mitchell Reports daily on MSNBC, has been in her element during the Middle East crisis, starting many mornings at 7 on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and NBC’s Today, and signing off after 9 p.m. following her NBC Nightly News hit and perhaps an appearance on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show. “These are ridiculous hours,” she says, “but I guess I just love what I do.”

But the question is: How, at 64, does she outrun competitors and look like she’s just arrived for her Oscar red carpet glamor walk? Mostly it’s the rush of adrenaline—and Starbucks. “You never stop . . . it’s now absolutely really 24-7,” says Mitchell, who received the National Press Foundation’s Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism this week.

There are tricks, and physical fitness is key, says the stylish Mitchell. Like many gym rats, she’s a fan of the results, not what it takes to get them. When she’s not on the air, she hits the free weights and treadmill with her trainer at 7 a.m. But asked her favorite exercise, she concedes, “I hate it all.”
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