Source: NYTimes.com
– NBC announced Monday that it has hired Chelsea Clinton to become a full-time special correspondent for NBC News.
The appointment was immediate. Ms. Clinton will begin work on stories that NBC expects to use as part of its “Making a Difference” series, which runs on “NBC Nightly News,” said Steve Capus, president of NBC News.
Ms. Clinton has been a national figure since her father won the presidency in 1992, but she has remained — first by her parents’ request and then by her own choice — largely out of the public eye.
Mr. Capus said an intermediary contacted him in July with word that “she was kicking around what she wanted to do next.”
Mr. Capus said he had met with Ms. Clinton and had a long conversation that began with a simple question. “I asked her: ‘What are you interested in doing?’ ” –
Chelsea explains the reasoning behind her new job, by stating, “I hope telling stories through Making a Difference – as in my academic work and non-profit work – will help me to live my grandmother’s adage of ‘life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you’.”
I personally like her grandmother’s adage, so here’s hoping those words will come alive in her reporting.
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