Linda Ellerbee | |
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 Ellerbee in 1978 | |
| Born | Linda Jane Smith August 15, 1944 Bryan, Texas, U.S. |
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| Known for | NBC News Overnight, Our World, Nick News |
| Spouses | Mac Smith
(m. 1964; div. 1966)Van Kenneth Veseika
(m. 1968; div. 1971)Tom Ellerbee
(m. 1973; div. 1975)John David Klein
(m. 1975; div. 1983)Rolfe Tessem (m. 1985) |
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. She is widely known as the twenty-five year host of Nick News, Nickelodeon's highly rated and recognized news program for older school-aged children and teens that addressed substantive issues, including wars, disease and disasters, without condescension.
Ellerbee's work on NBC News Overnight was recognized by the jurors of the duPont Columbia Awards as "possibly the best written and most intelligent news program ever."[1] Described as literate, smart, unapologetic, assertive and keenly observant, Ellerbee formally retired in 2015, after 43 years in journalism.
- ^ Encyclopedia of Television, 2nd Ed. 2004, Museum of Broadcast Communications, by Fitzroy Dearborn, Horace Newcomb (ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton. ISBN 1-57958-411-X.