The celebration of Andrea Mitchell‘s on-air profession continued after she signed off of her last Andrea Mitchell Stories episode on Friday (February 7).
The episode concluded with a shock drop-in and standing ovation from some fellow NBC and MSNBC of us, together with Jen Psaki, Symone Sanders Townsend, Pete Williams, Peter Alexander, Kelly O’Donnell, Hallie Jackson, and former MSNBC president Rashida Jones.
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After airing wrapped, Jones supplied a champagne toast to the long-time anchor, saying, “You’ve executed a lot for journalists as an entire, however what you’ve executed for ladies on this enterprise can’t even be measured, and so I need to say thanks to you. I need to say thanks for the entire laborious work and setting the usual of excellence for all of us in right here. I need to say thanks for creating the curriculum of Andrea Mitchell College.”
Then, MSNBC’s interim president, Rebecca Kutler, supplied her reward of Mitchell by saying, “What she has constructed for this place, however what she has constructed simply on again of, what Rashida stated, for ladies on this trade, in each a part of Washington and around the globe, what she has confirmed us that we will all do. So, it’s an absolute pleasure to be right here at present with the household that you just constructed.”
NBC Information President Rebecca Blumenstein added, “You actually have been a trailblazer… It’s only a mannequin for all of us, your character, your integrity, and your generosity of so many individuals on this room who actually owe their careers to you.”
Yvette Miley, the community’s vice chairman of variety, fairness, and inclusion, credited Mitchell with breaking boundaries, saying, “Since you occupied this area, it made me really feel like I may additionally discover my place, and I do know you in all probability did that for thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of different individuals… There’s a few issues that you’ve that make you the highest journalist, and that’s the grit and the grind and the guts and the hustle to do the work.”
And Pete Williams supplied a extra private toast, saying, “This girl by no means appears to have sufficient time within the day for herself, however she all the time has sufficient time for others… In case you have Andrea Mitchell as a buddy, you could have a buddy for all times, it doesn’t matter what. God bless you, Andrea.”
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