TORONTO – Toronto reporter Ben Chin has decided to jump into politics before he even filed his first story for Global National.
The former Citytv, CBC, CTV, and Toronto 1 reporter and anchor has accepted a position as a special advisor to Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty, Global’s senior vice-president new Steve Wyatt told www.cartt.ca today. Chin (right) was supposed to begin his new job as senior correspondent and Toronto Bureau Chief for Global National very soon.
He told the senior people last week and made it official this week,” said Wyatt. “He hadn’t even started yet.”
Chin started his broadcast career with Citytv and moved on to CTV and then to CBC and CBC Newsworld. Most recently, Chin helped launch Toronto 1 in September 2003, co-anchoring its flagship news magazine Toronto Tonight (since cancelled) and hosting numerous specials.
"I guess public service just came calling first," said Wyatt, who added he has no replacement for Chin in mind yet.
