Linda Ellerbee

Linda Ellerbee (born August 15, 1944) is an American journalist who is most known for several jobs at NBC News, including Washington, DC correspondent, host of the Nickelodeon network's Nick News, and reporter and co-anchor of NBC News Overnight, which was recognized by the jurors of the duPont Columbia Awards as "possibly the best written and most intelligent news program ever."Encyclopedia of Television, 2nd Ed. 2004, Museum of Broadcast Communications, by Fitzroy Dearborn, Horace Newcomb (ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton ISBN 157958411X

Biography

Early life

Ellerbee was born Linda Jane Smith in Bryan, Texas. She attended River Oaks Elementary School, Lanier Middle School, and Lamar High School in Houston, Texas."." Houston Independent School District.

She also attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Career

At NBC, Ellerbee worked as a reporter on The Today Show. Her first anchor job was on the short-lived Weekend. Ellerbee was added to the Weekend broadcast team when the show moved from a late-night time slot into direct prime time...
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