Linda Ellerbee Biography
Linda Ellerbee is a journalist, anchor, producer, reporter, author, speaker, and pundit best known as NBC News’ veteran Washington correspondent and host of NBC News Overnight.
How old is Linda Ellerbee?- Age
Linda is 78 years old as of August 2022. She was born Linda Jane Smith on 15 August 1944, in Bryan, Texas, United States of America.
Linda Ellerbee Education
In Houston, she attended River Oaks Elementary School, Lanier Middle School, and Lamar High School. She also attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, until 1964, when she dropped out.
Linda Ellerbee Married- Husband
He has been married five times. She was previously married to John David Klein, Tom Ellerbee, Van Kenneth Veselka, and Mac Smith. However, she has two children from her marriage with, Van Kenneth Veselka.
Linda Ellerbee Career
She was hired to write content for the Associated Press’ Dallas bureau after working for Terry Miller, the majority leader of the Alaska Senate. She alleges she was sacked after mistakenly sending a scathing personal letter over the wire while using the AP’s word processors. The letter drew the attention of Houston CBS affiliate KHOU-TV, which hired her to replace Jessica Savitch in 1973.WCBS-TV in New York hired her. Ellerbee worked as a correspondent on Today at NBC. Her first assignment as an anchor was on Weekends in prime time. When Weekend moved from its late-night time slot to direct prime-time competition with CBS’s 60 Minutes, Ellerbee joined Lloyd Dobyns as co-host.
Ellerbee co-anchored Summer Sunday USA with Andrea Mitchell, marking the first time a prime-time network news program was co-anchored by two women. She later worked as a correspondent for Today before joining the rival network ABC in 1986. She worked as a reporter for the morning show Good Morning America there. Ellerbee was able to co-write and co-anchor Our World, a weekly primetime history series, with Ray Gandolf at ABC. Ellerbee and her husband and business partner Rolfe Tessem quit network news in 1987 to launch Lucky Duck Productions. The company has created programs for every major cable network, and its flagship program is Nick News, a Nickelodeon news program for children.
She appeared as herself in an episode of the sitcom Murphy Brown in 1989. The episode “Summer of ’77” mentioned Ellerbee auditioning for the anchor position, which finally went to the title character, Candice Bergen. Ellerbee also caused a slight stir in 1989 by starring in television commercials for Maxwell House coffee. And So It Goes, her autobiography was released in 1986. Move On: Adventures in the Real World, her second memoir, was released in 1991, and Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table, her third, in 2005. She has also written an eight-part series of Girl Reporter novels for children, as well as a syndicated newspaper column.
Linda Ellerbee Health- Illness
Ellerbee was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992 and underwent a double mastectomy. She has spent most of her time since then speaking to groups about how she survived cancer and how women should fight the disease, demand better medical treatment, and keep a healthy sense of humor.
Linda Ellerbee’s Net Worth
Linda has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.