27 Facts About Deborah Norville

Deborah Anne Norville was born on August 8,1958 and is an American television journalist and businesswoman.

Deborah Norville's book Thank You Power was a New York Times best-seller.

Deborah Norville won her town's local Junior Miss contest, a beauty contest for high school senior girls and represented Georgia in the 1976 America's Junior Miss pageant.

Deborah Norville did not win but credits seeing the behind-the-scenes work of the CBS Television production team as inspiring her to switch her career goal from law to television journalism.

Deborah Norville was named a First Honor Graduate and elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Deborah Norville began her television career while still a college student.

Deborah Norville received an internship through Georgia Public Television, where she worked on The Lawmakers, a nightly program covering the Georgia General Assembly.

Deborah Norville was spotted by an executive of WAGA-TV in Atlanta, who offered her a summer internship.

Deborah Norville joined WAGA-TV as a full-time reporter after graduating and was named weekend anchor in October 1979.

Deborah Norville joined NBC News in January 1987 as anchor of NBC News at Sunrise, becoming the only solo female anchor of a network newscast.

In September 1989, Deborah Norville was named news anchor on Today.

In May 1991, ABC TalkRadio Networks announced Deborah Norville would be hosting a prime-time program, broadcast from her homes in New York and Long Island.

The Deborah Norville Show: From Her Home to Yours featured newsmaker interviews and listener calls.

Deborah Norville returned to television in October 1992, when she joined CBS News as a correspondent.

Deborah Norville reported for Street Stories and 48 Hours, for which she won her second Emmy award for coverage of the Mississippi floods of 1994.

Deborah Norville was later assigned to the CBS Evening News and named co-anchor with Dana King of America Tonight.

From 1993 to 1995, Deborah Norville was a semiregular anchor of the CBS Sunday Evening News, which had been vacant since Connie Chung was elevated to co-anchor of the CBS Evening News.

In 1995, Deborah Norville was named anchor of Inside Edition, a syndicated newsmagazine, a position she continues to hold.

Deborah Norville left Deborah Norville Tonight in 2005, citing the challenge of juggling her Inside Edition and MSNBC duties along with family responsibilities.

Alongside her television career, Deborah Norville has frequently worked as a writer.

Deborah Norville served as a contributing editor to Inside Sports magazine in the 1980s and as a contributing editor to McCall's magazine from 1991 to 1993.

Deborah Norville published the New York Times best-seller Thank You Power: Making the Science of Gratitude Work for You, featuring the benefits found by research on gratitude.

Deborah Norville debuted the line at the 2009 Craft Hobby Show, the craft industry's premier convention, where she served as the keynote speaker.

Deborah Norville stated in a Swedish interview that since the early 1980s, she has been an active supporter of commercial whaling activities as they supply raw materials for her anti-aging and lotion products.

Deborah Norville continues this effort through financial support of the Japan Whaling Organization, a pro-whaling group.

In 2013, Deborah Norville was elected to the board of directors of Viacom, serving on the company's compensation committee.

Deborah Norville left the board in December 2019 when Viacom merged with CBS Corporation, the producer and distributor of Inside Edition, to form Paramount Global.