Journalist, Television Broadcaster / Host, Cancer Survivor
Program Titles
- How To Be Successful and Hang Onto Your Values
- Surviving Breast Cancer to Laugh Another Day
- How to survive a changing world and how to change your world
- How To Raise Media-Savvy Kids
Linda Ellerbee is an outspoken journalist, award-winning television producer, best-selling author, breast cancer survivor, and one of the most sought-after speakers in America.
Overnight was cited by the duPont Columbia Awards as “the best written and most intelligent news program ever.” Ellerbee’s work on Our World, a weekly primetime historical series, won her an Emmy.
Nick News is watched by more children than watch all other television news shows put together—and has earned honors traditionally associated with adult programming.
Known for the respectful and direct way it speaks to children about the important issues of our time, Nick News has collected three Peabody Awards (including one personal Peabody given to Ellerbee for her coverage of the Clinton investigation), a duPont Columbia Award and seven Emmys.
Ellerbee was honored with an Emmy for her series,
When I Was a Girl, which aired on WE: Women’s Entertainment network.
As a breast cancer survivor, Ellerbee travels thousands of miles each year giving inspirational speeches.
Books by Linda Ellerbee
- Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table
- Get Real
- And So It Goes, a humorous look at television news
- Move On, stories about being a working single mother,
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