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Linda Ellerbee Is Retiring After Hosting ‘Nick News’ For More Than Two Decades

Linda Ellerbee Is Retiring After Hosting ‘Nick News’ For More Than Two Decades

Journalist Linda Ellerbee is signing off. Though the 71-year-old anchor has been involved in covering the news for more than 40 years, she’s best known to millennials as the host of the kid-centric current events show Nick News. Since the show first launched in the early ‘90s, Ellberbee brought a young generation stories from happenings around the globe and updates about important events, while being awarded a number of Peabodys and Emmys. In a statement, she said, , “I saw the world, met many of the world’s most interesting people, and was well paid to do so. Now I choose to go, and I go smiling. I’ve had a great time.”

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