Linda Ellerbee is an outspoken journalist, award-winning television documentary producer, breast cancer survivor, and best-selling author.
Ellerbee began her career 40 years ago in 1972 at the Associated Press. In 1982, she pioneered the late-night news program, NBC News Overnight, which she wrote and anchored with Lloyd Dobyns.
In 1987, Ellerbee and Rolfe Tessem, her partner, quit network news to start Lucky Duck Productions, a New York based company that produces news, documentaries and other specials for broadcast and cable. Lucky Duck Productions began by producing documentaries for PBS. Then, in 1991, Lucky Duck began producing Nick News for Nickelodeon. Nick News is the longest running children’s news program in television history and is watched by more children than all other television news shows put together—and has earned honors traditionally associated with adult programming.
For the last 20 years, Ellerbee and her work also have been seen all over the television universe, as Lucky Duck Productions has produced and continues to produce specials for ABC, CBS, HBO, PBS, Lifetime, MTV, Logo, A&E, MSNBC, SOAPnet, Animal Planet and TV Land, among others.
Ellerbee’s first book, And So It Goes, a humorous look at television news, became an instant best seller, and a favorite among journalists. Her second book and third books followed: Move On and Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table. Her foray into books for children, an eight-part fiction series entitled Get Real, continues to earn her raves among young readers.
A popular and versatile speaker, audiences come to hear her trademark wit and wisdom on everything from how to survive corporate America with your values intact to how to survive breast cancer and live to laugh about it. She often speaks to medical groups concerning healthcare issues from a patient’s point of view.
In 2011, at the annual Gracie Awards, Ellerbee received the Tribute Award, the highest honor given by the Alliance for Women in Media.
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