Chelsea steps into spotlight with TV debut as reporter

AFTER a lifetime of guarding her privacy, Chelsea Clinton made her debut as a reporter on US national television with a feature about a non-profit organisation dedicated to poor children in Arkansas.

The only child of America’s most famous political couple, Clinton, 31, appeared poised as she reported the feelgood segment on Annette Dove, a volunteer who takes troubled youngsters in the poverty-struck city of Pine Bluff under her wing.

“Hi Chelsea, we’re so glad to have you!” Dove exclaimed on camera in the pre-recorded report, which aired on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams show. At one point, Clinton and Dove discussed hearing gunshots in the rundown neighbourhood.