Chelsea Clinton has been hired as a full-time correspondent for NBC News effective immediately, the network will announce on Monday, the New York Times reports.
Clinton will work on stories that NBC will use in its ?Making a Difference? series that runs on the ?NBC Nightly News,? NBC News president Steve Capus told the Times.
Continue ReadingCapus said he had a conversation with Clinton after he was told by a third party in July that she was figuring out what to do next, and the former first daughter had told him that during her mother Hillary Clinton?s 2008 presidential campaign, she had been inspired by stories of people making personal contributions.
?That?s the kind of thing, if this were to happen, that I would really like to do.? Capus said of what Clinton had said about journalism that shines a light on people who work to improve the lives of others. ?It?s not about Chelsea Clinton saying, ?Here I am; I want to be a TV star.? ?
In a statement to the Times, Clinton said of her new media gig, ?I hope telling stories through ?Making a Difference? ? as in my academic work and nonprofit 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.? ?
A person close to Clinton told the Times that the former first daughter intends to donate her paycheck from NBC to the Clinton Foundation and the George Washington University Hospital in the name of Dorothy Howell Rodham, her grandmother, who passed away earlier this month.
The 31-year-old has assumed a more prominent role in the public spotlight recently. In September, Clinton joined the board of directors of Barry Diller?s InterActive Corporation and appeared on stage at the Clinton Global Initiative?s annual summit in New York City to interview her mother. Just last week, Clinton also interviewed her father at the New York Historical Society about his newly published book, ?Back to Work.?
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