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LINDA ELLERBEE
Author, Television Producer, Anchor & Cancer Survivor
For the past twenty-five years, Linda Ellerbee has earned a living writing, producing and anchoring award-winning television. Ellerbee has written two best-selling books, writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column and is president of Lucky Duck Productions, a well-known television production company based in New York City.
During Linda Ellerbee's twelve years as a network correspondent and anchor at NBC, she covered the United States Congress, the White House, plus political campaigns, conventions and scandals. While at NBC, she also anchored and wrote the award-winning news magazine: Weekend and the pioneer late-night news program: NBC News Overnight -- cited by the Columbia duPont Awards as possibly "the best written and most intelligent news program ever." In 1986, Linda Ellerbee moved to ABC to write and anchor the prime time historical series, Our World, for which she won that year's Emmy for best writing.
In 1987, Linda Ellerbee formed her own company to produce programs for network, syndication, cable and public television.
Since 1991, Lucky Duck Productions has been producing award-winning children's programming for Nickelodeon, which began with a series of news specials devoted to topics like the Gulf War, the environment and the L.A. riots. The now-famous program for children about AIDS, A Conversation with Magic, which featured Magic Johnson, was awarded the CableACE for best news special of 1992. That year, Linda Ellerbee also won the prestigious Peabody Award as executive producer of the Nickelodeon special, It's Only Television. In 1993, Lucky Duck produced Stranger Danger, the award-winning Nickelodeon special about preventing child abduction.
Currently, Lucky Duck produces the critically acclaimed weekly TV news and documentary series for kids, Nick News. Linda Ellerbee executive produces, writes and hosts the show, which, in addition to its prime-time slot on Nickelodeon, is syndicated in more than 92% of the country, Nick News was just awarded an Emmy for outstanding children's series, as well as a Peabody Award "for presenting news in a thoughtful and non-condescending manner for both children and adults." In 1993, the series won a Columbia duPont Award, which called the show "a unique contribution to television, produced with imagination, humor and serious purpose." Nick News also received a 1993 Parents' Choice Award, while the Television Critics Association has recognized Linda Ellerbee for her outstanding achievement in children's programming for two consecutive years now.
Other Lucky Duck projects include Smart Sex, an hour-long, high-rated documentary aimed at changing the unsafe-sexual practices of young people, which was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and aired on MTV and PBS; The Other Epidemic, a prime-time ABC news special on breast cancer; Ms. Smith Goes Too Washington a look at the first 100 days of the new women elected into the 103rd Congress, which was awarded a CableACE for best public affairs special of 1993; The Verdict, a live cablecast that reviewed the Supreme Court's decision on abortion; and Contraception, The Stalled Revolution, which aired on both TBS and PBS.
Linda Ellerbee's book about television, And So It Goes, stayed on The New York Times best-seller list for 18 weeks and is used as a textbook at more than 100 universities. Her second best-selling book, Move On, published in 1991, is about surviving the last half of the Century with one's sense of humor intact.
Linda Ellerbee's newspaper column, which she began writing in 1985, is distributed by Hearst/King Features Syndicate, reaching more than six million people every week. In it, she writes about the the political and the personal world in which she lives.
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