Linda Ellerbee

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Linda Ellerbee (born Linda Jane Smith in Bryan, Texas, U.S., August 15, 1944) is a journalist who is most known for several jobs at NBC News, including Washington (DC) correspondent, and reporter and co-anchor of NBC News Overnight, which was recognized by the duPont Columbia Awards as "the best written and most intelligent news program ever."[citation needed]

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Ellerbee attended River Oaks Elementary School, Lanier Middle School, Lamar High School in Houston, and attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee[1].

[edit] Career

While at NBC, she worked with Jessica Savitch; when Savitch's drug problems became apparent she tried to organize an intervention, but Savitch died before it took place. She has also served as a reporter for the morning programs The Today Show and Good Morning America. She would end her stories with the saying "And so it goes."[2] In 1986, she moved to ABC News, where she co-wrote and co-anchored "Our World", a weekly primetime historical series. Her work on that program won her an Emmy.

In 1987, Ellerbee and her life and business partner Rolfe Tessem left network news to start their own production company, Lucky Duck Productions. The company has produced programs for every major cable network, and has as its flagship program Nick News, a news program for children on Nickelodeon. That show has received many awards: three Peabody Awards (including one personal Peabody given to Ellerbee for her coverage of the Clinton investigation), another duPont Columbia Award and three Emmys. In 2004, Ellerbee was honored with an Emmy for her WE: Women’s Entertainment network series "When I Was a Girl".

In 1989, she guest-starred as herself in an episode of the sitcom Murphy Brown. The episode Summer of 77 referenced that Ellerbee had auditioned for the anchor job which eventually went to the title character, played by Candice Bergen. Murphy Brown also accuses Ellerbee of stealing her catchphrase 'And so it goes...' from her during a long haul flight. The two reminisce with Ellerbee saying she might like to go back to an old network job, and Brown wanting to take some time off to write a book. Both reply with 'Nahh...'.

Her autobiography And So It Goes was published in 1986. A second book of memoirs, "Move on: Adventures in the Real World" was published in 1992 and third, "Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table" in 2005. In addition, she has authored an eight-part series "Girl Reporter" books for young people, as well as a syndicated newspaper column.

Nick News with Linda Ellerbee received controversy on June 18, 2003 called My family is different, which featured kids and parents from same-sex households, along with openly lesbian parent Rosie O'Donnell, who talked about some of the discrimination they go through. It featured kids from more conservative households who are against equal treatment for same-sex households, including conservative comentator Jerry Falwell.


[edit] Employment

[edit] Television

  • 1978-79: Weekend
  • 1979-82: NBC Nightly News
  • 1982-84: NBC News Overnight
  • 1984: Summer Sunday
  • 1984-86: Today
  • 1986-87: Our World
  • 1991-present: Nick News

[edit] Other

  • Disc jockey at WSOM Chicago 1964-65
  • Program director, KSJO San Francisco, 1967-68
  • Reporter, KJNO Juneau, Alaska, 1969-72
  • News writer, Associated Press in Dallas, 1972
  • Television reporter, KHOU in Houston, Texas, 1972-73
  • General assignment reporter, WCBS-TV in New York City, 1973-76
  • Reporter, the Washington bureau of NBC News, 1976-78
  • Co-anchor, network news magazine Weekend , 1978-79
  • Correspondent, NBC Nightly News, 1979-82
  • Co-anchor, NBC News Overnight, 1982-84
  • Co-anchor, Summer Sunday, 1984
  • Reporter, Today, 1984-86
  • Reporter, Good Morning America, 1986
  • Anchor, ABC show Our World, 1986-87
  • Commentator, CNN, 1989
  • President, Lucky Duck Productions, since 1987
  • Producer, writer, and host, Nick News since 1993
  • Writer, host, On the Record
  • On-line production with Microsoft, since 1996

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Non-fiction

  • Ellerbee, Linda (1986). And So It Goes: Adventures in Television. ISBN 0-399-13047-0. 
  • Ellerbee, Linda (1992). Move on: Adventures in the Real World. ISBN 0-06-097469-9. 
  • Ellerbee, Linda (2006). Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table. ISBN 0-425-20973-3. 

[edit] Fiction

  • Ellerbee, Linda (2000). Girl Reporter Blows Lid Off Town! (Get Real, No. 1). ISBN 0-06-440755-1. 
  • Ellerbee, Linda (2000). Girl Reporter Sinks School! (Get Real, No. 2). ISBN 0-06-440756-X. 
  • Ellerbee, Linda (2000). Girl Reporter Stuck in Jam! (Get Real, No. 3). ISBN 0-06-440757-8. 
  • Ellerbee, Linda (2000). Girl Reporter Snags Crush! (Get Real, No. 4). ISBN 0-06-440758-6. 
  • Ellerbee, Linda (2000). Ghoul Reporter Digs Up Zombies! (Get Real, No. 5). ISBN 0-06-440759-4. 
  • Ellerbee, Linda (2000). Girl Reporter Rocks Polls! (Get Real, No. 6). ISBN 0-06-440760-8. 
  • Ellerbee, Linda (2000). Girl Reporter Gets the Skinny! (Get Real, No. 7). ISBN 0-06-440951-1. 
  • Ellerbee, Linda (2001). Girl Reporter Bytes Back! (Get Real, No. 8). ISBN 0-06-440952-X. 

[edit] External links

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