In 1991, Lucky Duck began producing Nick News for Nickelodeon with Linda Ellerbee writing and hosting. In 1987, Linda Ellerbee and Rolfe Tessem, her partner, quit network news to start Lucky Duck Productions, first producing documentaries for PBS. Overnight was cited by the duPont Columbia Awards as “the best written and most intelligent news program ever.” In 1986, Linda Ellerbee moved to ABC News to anchor and write Our World, a weekly primetime historical series. Linda Ellerbee began her career at CBS, and then moved to NBC News where, after years covering national politics, she pioneered the late-night news program NBC News Overnight, which she wrote and anchored. Linda Ellerbee is an outspoken journalist, award-winning television producer, best-selling author, a breast cancer survivor, a mom, a grandmother and one of the most sought-after speakers in America. Her commencement speeches to young journalism graduates are designed to encourage them to take their work seriously without taking themselves seriously, and to inspire them to make journalism better - because they can. Ellerbee, who still does it her way, also has a lot to say about journalism today and journalism tomorrow. She’s had a helluva good time, and hopes that maybe, just maybe, she changed television news a tiny bit. Throughout her career, Ellerbee has become famous for doing it her way. Once upon a time, they called her an irreverent newcomer, then a seasoned veteran and now a pioneering female journalist.

Her best-selling book, And So It Goes, a humorous look at TV News, is still used as a journalism textbook over 25 years after it was published. She became known for her writing and for respecting her audience, and collected TV’s most prestigious awards along the way. From newspapers to networks, Ellerbee went from covering fires and parades to covering presidential campaigns and international terrorism, anchoring ground-breaking television series such as Weekend, NBC News Overnight, Our World, and Nick News with Linda Ellerbee, which, in its 21st year on the air, is television’s longest running news program for kids. She began her career by getting fired from the Associated Press three months after getting hired - which turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to her career.

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