In the interview, Linda talks about her career in television, including ABC's Our World, a weekly primetime historical series, and talks about her time hosting the unrivaled run of the iconic Nick News with Linda Ellerbee series on Nickelodeon, including what was the most challenging story that the show covered during it's 25 years on-air, how kids who watched the series when it first begun now have children of their own, with some early viewers even going on to work on the show, what she'll miss the most, and what she plans to do after she retires. Linda also reveals that the last segment of "Hello, I Must Be Going: 25 Years of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee" will be a personnel piece about what kids have taught her whilst presenting the series. Linda also gives a great quote: "You're never too old to learn from young".
Watch Linda Ellerbee's fantastic interview with Good Morning America in the super video below, and tune into the hour-long series finale of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee, "Hello, I Must Be Going: 25 Years of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee", a retrospective documenting the longest-running kids' news show in television history, premiering Tuesday 15th December 2015 at 8:00pm ET/PT, only on Nickelodeon USA!
Nick News, produced by Lucky Duck Productions, is the longest-running kids' news show in television history. It built its reputation on the respectful and direct way it speaks to kids about the important issues of the day. Over the years, Nick News received more than 21 Emmy nominations and won its tenth Emmy Award for Forgotten But Not Gone: Kids, HIV & AIDS in the category of Outstanding Children's Nonfiction Program. Its additional Emmy wins include: Under the Influence: Kids of Alcoholics (2011); (The Face of Courage: Kids Living with Cancer (2010); Coming Home: When Parents Return from War (2009); The Untouchable Kids of India (2008); Private Worlds: Kids and Autism (2007); Never Again: From the Holocaust to the Sudan (2005); Faces of Hope: The Kids of Afghanistan (2002) and What Are You Staring At? (1998). In 1995, the entire series won the Emmy.
Nick News was also honored with the Edward R. Murrow Award for best Network News Documentary for Coming Home: When Parents Return from War — the first-ever kids' television program to receive this prestigious award. Nick News also received three Peabody Awards, including a personal award given to Ellerbee for explaining the impeachment of President Clinton to kids, as well as a Columbia duPont Award and more than a dozen Parents' Choice Awards.
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