DuPont Columbia Awards recently acknowledged Linda Ellerbees contributions in the field of media writing and journalism. She is best known as a media reporter covering important news events for NBC News and her assignments as Washington (DC) correspondent and co-anchor of NBC News Overnight. DuPont appraised her contributions as exceptionally well written and most intelligent news program ever made.
Linda Ellerbee was born on August 15, 1944 as Linda Jane Smith in Bryan, Texas. She did her schooling from River Oaks Elementary School and Lanier Middle School initially and later moved to Lamar High School in Houston. She completed her masters from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
In the early years of her career Linda Ellerbee worked as a reporter for KJNO Juneau, Alaska during1969-72 and end 1972 became the news writer for Associated Press in Dallas. She took the job of television reporter in 1972-73 for KHOU in Houston, Texas. Prior to all these assignment she worked as a Disc Jockey at WSOM Chicago during1964-65 and afterwards signed in as a Program director for KSJO San Francisco in 1967.
During the phase of 1978-79, Linda Ellerbee was with Weekend and joined NBC Nightly News 1979 where she to continued to work till 1982. It might also be mentioned here that 1982 saw a new beginning for her. While working at NBC News Overnight she tried to organize an intervention for the drug abuse by her colleague Jessica Savitch. Unfortunately Savitch passed away before it happened. She worked as a reporter for The Today Show and Good Morning America. Her catch phrase, And so it goes that she used to end her stories with became very popular. She won the Emmy Award for her exceptional writings and anchoring in the ABC News program Our World based on historical events and aired in primetime.
In 1987, Linda Ellerbee started her own production company, Lucky Duck Productions with her business partner Rolfe Tessem. The flagship program of the company was Nick News that received many awards like Peabody Awards. The program dealt with news for children on Nickelodeon. Apart from DuPont Columbia Award and she received three Emmys. In 2004, Ellerbee won the Emmy for When I Was a Girl, a show she made for Womens Entertainment network series. In an episode of the sitcom Murphy Brown she made a guest appearance as herself.
In 1986 Linda Ellerbee published her autobiography And So It Goes. Her third and last memoir came out in 2005 titled Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table.
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