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Linda Ellerbee (born Linda Jane Smith; August 15, 1944) is an American journalist, anchor, producer, reporter, author, speaker and commentator, noted as longtime Washington correspondent for NBC News and host of NBC News Overnight.
Jun 8, 2024 · When journalist Linda Ellerbee kicked off her career at NBC News in 1974, network executives didn't exactly roll out the red carpet. At the time, women were scarce and widely disregarded in network broadcasting — but that began to change with the arrival of Ellerbee and a few other trailblazing anchorwomen.
Dec 1, 2015 · Linda Ellerbee, the outspoken television journalist who later became a TV producer and the host of Nickelodeon’s long-running Nick News, announced Tuesday that she was retiring after 44 years...
Dec 8, 2015 · “We started with common sense and the fact that we were journalists, and that we knew what good journalism was,” Ellerbee said in a 2010 interview with the Archive of American Television. This fundamental respect for children as being worthy of good journalism is baked into the DNA of the show.
Oct 31, 2018 · Linda Ellerbee is a Peabody and Emmy Award winning journalist who was one of the first women to anchor the national news. Her work at NBC was…
- Joe Donahue
May 27, 2006 · Ms. Ellerbee's candor and take-charge attitude helped pave the way for a generation of high-profile women journalists like Katie Couric and Meredith Vieira, said Maria Shriver, a former reporter...
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Mar 23, 2023 · Born Linda Jane Smith in Bryan, Texas (Ellerbee was the name of one of her husbands — she's been married four times), she went to Vanderbilt University, dropped out, then traveled to Alaska,...
