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Linda Ellerbee is a woman of spirit and determination who has enlightened and entertained audiences for over 40 years.  She is a respected journalist, award-winning television producer, best-selling author, breast cancer survivor, mother, grandmother and one of the most sought-after speakers in America.  Widely recognized for her outstanding work, she has earned numerous accolades including several Emmy, Peabody and duPont Columbia awards.

For the last twenty years, Ellerbee has led Lucky Duck Productions, which produces high-quality programming for television networks worldwide.   Her news show for kids, Nick News, has aired on Nickelodeon since 1991, and is the longest-running and most-watched children's news program ever.  Revered as a pioneer, a survivor and a role model for all ages, Ellerbee charms audiences with her trademark wit and wisdom while inspiring them with her gifts of honesty, courage, hope, and laughter.

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An Intrepid Journalist Successfully Breaking Barriers                     

Linda Ellerbee began her storied career as a political reporter at CBS, then moved to NBC where she pioneered - as well as wrote and anchored-- the late-night news program NBC News Overnight.  Overnight was cited by the duPont Columbia Awards as "the best written and most intelligent news program ever." Later, Ellerbee moved to ABC News to anchor and write Our World, a weekly primetime historical series, for which she won an Emmy.

Connecting with and Inspiring Audiences Everywhere

Currently, Ellerbee and her work can be seen all across the media landscape including on ABC, CBS, HBO, PBS, Lifetime, MTV, A&E, MSNBC, and TV Land.  Her foray into the book world has resulted in three bestsellers for adults - And So it Goes, Move On and Take Big Bites - as well as rave reviews for her young adult fiction series Get Real.  Ellerbee travels thousands of miles each year giving inspirational speeches, enchanting audiences across the country as a real person speaking to real people, to the heart from the heart.

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How To Be Successful and Hang Onto Your Values

How Ellerbee balanced having kids and building a career...or tried to.  Ellerbee delivers her trademark wit and wisdom on everything from leaving the networks to starting her own company, from having a boss to being the boss.

Surviving Breast Cancer to Laugh Another Day

Ellerbee describes her experience with breast cancer - from the heartfelt yet amusing reactions of friends and colleagues, to the determination and spirit that help make her a 16+-year survivor.

How to Survive a Changing World and How to Change Your World

Ellerbee gives her rules for surviving a changing world with the heart intact - from surviving breast cancer, to climbing mountains, from overcoming obstacles to making a noise.  In her life and in her career, Ellerbee has learned that change is the norm.  

How to Raise Media-Savvy Kids

In the future, our kids will either learn to use the media that surround them as tools, or they will be tools of that media. Television. The Internet. iPhones. What's next? And what is media literacy today, and how do we teach it? Ellerbee offers insight and perspective gained from speaking with (and listening to) kids for nearly 20 years on the critically-acclaimed children's television series, Nick News...and from raising two media-savvy kids of her own.

Kids, Television, and the News

Ellerbee talks about her journey to producing children's television - how she created Nick News, her long-running series on Nickelodeon, and "what I've learned about children, television and the real world."

PLEASE NOTE:  THIS SPEECH MAY BE TAILORED FOR EDUCATION GROUPS.  Ellerbee talks about how teachers can use television as a teaching tool and turn television from the enemy into the teacher's friend. 

Adventures in Journalism

From newspapers to networks, she's gone from covering fires and parades to presidential debates and international terrorism, and collected some of the most prestigious awards along the way.  Ellerbee talks about her experience as a veteran journalist.

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