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Chelsea Clinton is teaming up with "Rock Center with Brian Williams" and "NBC Nightly News" as a Special Correspondent, the network announced today. Clinton's role with the shows and the network will be to highlight stories within the "Making a Difference" franchise.
"Making a Difference" segments have a history of profiling organizations and individuals who represent the best of what works in the United States and around the world, frequently emphasizing stories about everyday people doing extraordinary things. Clinton’s dedication to public service, solution-based advocacy and focus on empowering people across the country and around the globe resonates with the purpose and content of "Making a Difference." Her position with NBC News will still allow Clinton continue her work with the Clinton Foundation and her studies in parallel.
"Chelsea is a remarkable woman who will be a great addition to NBC News. Given her vast experiences, it's as though Chelsea has been preparing for this opportunity her entire life," said Steve Capus, President of NBC News. "We are proud she will be bringing her considerable, unique talents and dedication to NBC News."
"Our Making a Difference segments have become a signature of the broadcast. They adhere to a simple goal of highlighting the good works being done across the country and around the world," said Brian Williams, Anchor and Managing Editor of Nightly News and Rock Center. "Chelsea Clinton has led a remarkable life. She possesses an uncommon understanding of humanity -- on city streets, across this country and around the globe. We are so excited she's joining us to tell the stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things."
"People who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and in our world have always inspired me," said Clinton. "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," Clinton continued. "I have long been impressed that Brian and his team at NBC place consistent importance on sharing stories of empowerment that in turn, help empower other people and families. I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this tradition."
NBC News has been a leading source of global news and information for more than 75 years. Every week, NBC News provides more than 30 hours of television news programming, including the top-rated NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Today and Meet the Press programs. Dateline NBC and Rock Center with Brian Williams are the network’s primetime newsmagazines. NBC is the only broadcast news division with an affiliated cable channel, MSNBC, which provides 24-hour-a-day coverage of news events around the globe. Online, MSNBC.com is the number one video news site on the Internet. NBC News has also built an engaged following on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks.
In addition to its leading news programs, the network's portfolio includes cutting-edge platforms such as NBC News Mobile and NBC News Radio, and innovative ventures such as Peacock Productions, an award-winning in house production company; NBC Learn, the network's educational arm; NBC News Archives, a sales website leveraging over 70 years' worth of NBC News content; and TheGrio.com, a video-centric news community devoted to the African-American audience. NBCNewschannel is the network’s liaison to over 200 affiliate stations across the country.
Chelsea Clinton has worked at McKinsey & Company and Avenue Capital and studied at Stanford, Oxford and Columbia Universities. She is currently pursuing a doctorate at Oxford, working at New York University and working with the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative. Her recent professional and academic work, including her recent academic publications, have focused on questions around how to improve access to relatively low-cost, high-quality health care services around the world, for both acute and chronic health care needs, as well as questions of empowerment and equal rights, including areas related to health, the arts and focused more holistically, on areas that particularly concern children. Chelsea currently serves on the boards of the Clinton Foundation, the School of American Ballet, Common Sense Media, the Weill Cornell Medical College and IAC. Chelsea and her husband Marc live in New York City.
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What's not mentioned is that Avenue Capital, where Ms. Clinton was previously employed, is a hedge fund that deals in billions of dollars, and that her husband is a former Goldman Sachs banker who is now running his own hedge fund. It appears that NBC's focus on hiring new correspondents relies not on journalistic experience and integrity, but rather on young people with name recognition and famous parents (in other words, nepotism) who are beholden to the oligarchic status quo. Why else would the stable of "talent" include such neophyte pundits as Luke Russert, Jenna Bush, Meghan McCain and now Chelsea Clinton? It's not because of their journalistic bona fides, THAT's for sure. Brian Williams and NBC/MSNBC have done nothing but brought shame upon themselves and their supposed profession. Disgraceful!
Disgusting. Shameless nepotism.
Congratulations to Chelsea Clinton as I am sure it is well deserved. Our best leaders come from
a wealthy family and no sin in that. Former President Bill Clinton deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
for helping Ireland achieve peace; Secretary of State Hilliary Clinton is the smartest woman to come
down the pike. Their daughter has the best of both of them I wish her only the best.
Trust fund baby working for the ministry of truth ? How bizarre, the end of journalism....how sad for us.
I’ve always thought of Chelsea Clinton as being a smart, intelligent (like her parents) well-poised young woman, how the heck did she end up at NBC?
I know that doesn’t read well on paper, but taking into account she’s working on her Doctorate’s degree, plus working for the Clinton Foundation among other things, just wondering how she was talked into joining the network.
We see many young formular names in Journalism as Luke Russert and Jenna Bush. Both graduated and working for NBC. Chelsea has even gone for her on and gotten her Masters Degree and working on her Doctoral Degree along with all the charities and helping her parents. Smart move to ask her to do the Making a Difference report. Chelsea grew up watching her parents make a difference in so many people's lives and continuing it today. As for these young people being the children of successful parents well each will now have to make their own success. Jenna's husband was and aide to Karl Rove and her Father-in-Law was Education assistant secretary under the Bush Administration. Tim Russert was just the best of the best. Chelsea now gets another job to get experience to her future.
Brian.... you just said Chelsea Clinton was anxious to report on Making a Difference. While she may be anxious, as are we all at a new job, didn't you mean she's eager to report?
Shame on you NBC. Chelsea is the last person in the world that needs a job. Why didn't you give it to a Veteran; walk your talk! Or atleast give it to some experienced. Always just trying to make ratings. Well, you lost me.
Is Chelsea divorced or just using her maiden name? I think she will make a good correspondent!
You NBC folks just don't get it. What makes you think the viewers will hang on every word of a "reporter" just because she is the daughter of a former President? I have nothing against Chelsea Clinton nor Jenna Bush. I just wish NBC would quit trying to boost their ratings by putting them on the air. You have to know that there are thousands of talented Communications majors who have EARNED the opportunity to be an NBC reporter by studying their craft, honing their skills and paying their dues in the lesser markets. How about giving these folks the same opportunity as Jenna and Chelsea? As with Jenna Bush, I will be switching the channel when Chelsea Clinton does a story. My dumb little protest against Nepotism Broadcasting Company!
To listen to tonight's Nightly News, one would think that NBC had just hired the Pope. Brian's gushing about how excited he is to hire a new reporter with no experience.........disgusting.
I will no longer be watching Brian Williams / Nightly News...........
That's excectly how it goes in America the rich take care for their own people, the rest of us can go keep walking the street,they care less, Brian you and the rest of the people at NBC just blow it.
The media elite has just found another way to kiss the a$$'$ of Bill and Hillary. Glad I switched off the Nightly News weeks ago.
I do not understand the negative comments about Chelsea teaming up with NBC's Making a Difference as she
is certainly now making a difference and I wish her only the best. Good for her. So what if she is from
a wealthy family? Hilliary Clinton is a spectacular Secretary of State, and I am grateful to former
president Bill Clinton for campaigning for Jack Conway, who is also from a wealthy family. PhyllisKunz
Don't get me wrong, Phyllis. I wish Ms. Clinton no ill will. It's just that this country was founded as a rejection of royalty, and between the Clintons and the Bushes (and the Kennedys before them), it appears that we do indeed have our own dynastic monarchy. Neither the Clintons nor the Bushes are omnipotent or infallible, nor are they entirely as altruistic as they purport to be. Hillary recently stated, before the revolution in Egypt, that she counted Hosni Mubarrak and his wife as friends of her family. This is a brutal dictator who ruthlessly oppressed his own people. Was she being sincere, or just diplomatic in order to maintain a good relationship with Mubarrak's government until it became obvious that it would topple? Either way, it doesn't reflect well on her. The Clintons and the Bushes are members of the oligarchy that runs this country, and with the help of a willingly complacent media, they try to convince us that we're living in a wonderful democracy, when nothing could be further from the truth, as can be witnessed by the brutal police crackdown on the Occupy Movement across the country. This is a country of the wealthy, by the wealthy and for the wealthy. All others need not apply. Chelsea, with her involvement in the fluffy, feel-good "Making A Difference" franchise, only serves to detract from the serious issues that confront us all.
Ray Lamoureux, in my opinion, we won our independence from England so we could have
freedom of religion; however, to your point, Pres. Thomas Jefferson predicted America would
eventually become a Monarchy but it will not happen and Jefferson will turn over in his grave.
Former president Bill Clinton is not from a a wealthy family. Yes, former president GeorgeW.Bush
is from a wealthy family but I do not hold that against him because he such a great man and
was a great president, in that order. As my Uncle Ben once advised me, you can love a rich
man as well as a poor man:o) What I am saying, actually, is a wealthy man or woman should
not be penalized for having money, quite the contrary; they earned it. The Occupy protesters,
like the 60's protesters, should be thrown in jail where they belong. They have that First
Admendment Right but not the right to "camp out in tents" as the New York Mayor said on
Brian's broadcast this evening. Don't get me wrong, Ray, but I think if Chelsea were a
poor girl, many bloggers would nicpick her too because what it all comes down in many cases
is sourgrapes and how sour they are. Have a nice evening. Phyllis
PS It is my firm belief that the correct interpretation of "poor" in the New Testament is not down
on your luck but contrite in spirit which makes sense to me and if I recall correctly in one of
Paul's writings, of interest perhaps, he wrote that Jesus was rich. So there you are! Phyllis
From Matthew 19:24 -
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."
By your reasoning, it would have been quite difficult for Jesus to get into heaven. Your belief about what it means to be "rich" and "poor" seems a bit flawed.
"The Occupy protesters, like the 60's protesters, should be thrown in jail where they belong."
How very Christian of you to say that! How dare those evil, dirty hippies try to point out the extreme wealth inequality in this country, or demand justice from the plutocrats who created and perpetuate that crisis!
"...a wealthy man or woman should not be penalized for having money, quite the contrary; they earned it."
Except in the cases where their wealth was inherited and they did nothing to earn it, or had influential relatives or friends that helped them attain positions of power and wealth, again, without earning it, or when they use their power and money to influence legislation that would work in their favor to enrich themselves even more.
It is also written that Jesus "became poor like us" so maybe He gave his wealth away. His Apostles
never knew what He would do next. And Jesus also said "You will always have the poor with you"
which I interpret as it wasn't a major concern with him Mother Thersea, God bless her, helped the poor
but she brought no one to Jesus Christ. As for the 60's protesters and my comment being unChristian
because I said they belonged in jail, O, please, those Flower Children worship another Jesus which
Paul warned about. In essence what you are talking about money wise is spread the wealth and
how Socialist of you. Have a nice day!!!!!!!!!
BTW, Ray, there were two Jesus's, one the father and one the son Jesus Barabbas. Phyllis
Please don't make statements like that and expect me to accept them as facts. I live in the real world.
There are Biblical scholars who believe it to be a fact, but I am not going to do your research for you,
Nice try!
"Biblical scholars"
Now, THERE'S an oxymoron for you!
"...those Flower Children worship another Jesus which Paul warned about"
So, what "scholar" did you get THAT information from?
That was just my opinion about the flower children and I will leave it at that. Have a Happy
Thanksgiving.
Lester, another good broadcast Sunday night and also Suze Orman's book which you recommended
in 2010 has proven to be a valuable book for me this year and much thanks. I enjoyed Dateline on
Friday night and look forward to Rock Center as well tonight. Have a nice day!!! Phyllis