Among them: three Peabody Awards (including one personal Peabody given to Ellerbee for her coverage of the Clinton investigation), a duPont-Columbia Award and ten national Emmys for Outstanding Children's Program. Nick News earned honors traditionally associated with adult programming.
Nick News was watched by more children than watched all other television news shows put together and was known for the respectful and direct way it spoke to children about the important issues of our time. Then, in 1991, Lucky Duck began producing Nick News for Nickelodeon, which ran for 25 years - longer than any other children's news program in television history. Lucky Duck Productions began by producing documentaries for PBS. In 1987, Ellerbee and Rolfe Tessem, her partner, quit network news to start Lucky Duck Productions, a New York based company that produces news, documentaries and other specials for broadcast and cable. Her writing on Our World won her a national News & Documentary Emmy.
In 1986, Ellerbee moved to ABC News to anchor and write Our World, a weekly primetime historical series. Overnight was cited by the duPont-Columbia Awards as "possibly the best written and most intelligent news program ever." In 1982, she pioneered the late-night news program NBC News Overnight, which she wrote and anchored with Lloyd Dobyns. In 1975, she moved to NBC (national) News where, as Congressional Correspondent, she spent years covering national politics. Six months later, she was offered a job at WCBS, New York, as the "hard news" reporter for the evening newscast. In 1973, she was hired to be an on-air reporter at KHOU in Houston, Texas. An award-winning television producer, writer and anchor, best-selling author and sought-after speaker, Ellerbee's also a breast cancer survivor, mom, grandmother, and, as she points out, "one more proud, loud, storytelling, story-loving, nosy Texan."Įllerbee began her career over 40 years ago in 1972 at The Associated Press. Linda Ellerbee is an outspoken American television journalist who spent half her career reporting the news to adults and the other half explaining the news to children.
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