Credit where it’s due – Lee Lin Chin, a newsreader with gravitas and comedy genius
In a new column Mumbrella celebrates the best people and work in the industry. Today we salute 20-year SBS veteran Lee Lin Chin, who traverses the serious world of news with a more light-hearted approach.
There aren’t many newsreaders who can successfully make the leap to light entertainment, but Lee Lin Chin can put that feather in her cap.
Not content with being a mainstay on the po-faced SBS World News since 1992, Lee Lin has been engaging and delighting a younger audience with her regular appearances on SBS2’s The Feed.
To be a survivor in the cut-throat TV news world you have to have a steely edge, and Chin clearly has that in abundance, as well as an authority and gravitas that delivers an extra edge to her new bulletins, even if she is only on at weekends now.
I heart Lee Lin. LOVE her.
Lee Lin Chin on The Feed has been a brilliant move. It’s great to see a newsreader (especially one on SBS) not take themselves quite so seriously.
Lee Lin Chin is the actual best at everything. Ever.
A mate swears he once saw Lee Lin sat by a bar drinking beer out of a champagne glass. She can do no wrong!
I want to be Lee Lin Chin when I grow up.