She also markets and sells a line of yarns, which is named the Deborah Norville Collection and also serves as a member of the board of directors of ViacomCBS. She has also been the writer of the children’s books, “I Don’t Want to Sleep Tonight” (1999) and “I Can Fly” (2001). She is a successful author as well, and her book, “Thank You Power,” was a New York Times best-seller as well.Īlso, she has written several knit and crochet pattern books including, “Knit With Deborah Norville-18 Classic Designs For The Whole Family” (2009).
She has also worked as an anchor for “CBS Evening News.” In 1995, she began to work as an anchor of the television news magazine, “Inside Edition,” which she continues to do till now. She reported for the shows, “Street Stories” and “48 Hours”, for which she won an Emmy award for the coverage of the Mississippi floods of 1994.
She joined CBS News in October of 1992 as a correspondent. She then worked for ABC Network Radio and began hosting “The Deborah Norville Show: From Her Home to Yours,” which ran from September of 1991 to October of 1992. She took a leave of absence on the birth of her first child and didn’t return after that. However, ratings declined after her arrival, and there were accusations on NBC to have handled the situation unprofessionally. During her run on “The Today Show,” she won an Emmy award for her role in NBC’s coverage of the democratic uprising in Romania. She has been the host of the show, “Real Life with Jane Pauley,” and has also worked as a co-host of “The Today Show” beginning in January of 1990. The success got her to appear occasionally on NBC’s incredibly popular “The Today Show.” In August of 1989, she was the primary host of the documentary, “Bad Girls” and the show was the most-watched show on the week it aired. She joined NBC News in January of 1987 as the anchor of the television news program, ”NBC News at Sunrise,” which caused the ratings of the program to jump by 40 percent. In 1986, when it was announced that she would be joining NBC News in New York, the then Chicago Mayor Harold Washington declared “Deborah Norville Week” in Chicago. She then joined WMAQ-TV in 1982 as a reporter and later became an anchor. In October of 1979, she joined WAGA-TV as a full-time reporter after completing her education. In January of 1979, she even conducted a live interview with the then American President Jimmy Carter. She has previously been the winner of her town’s local Junior Miss contest and has even represented Georgia in the 1976 America’s Junior Miss pageant. She was a First Honor Graduate and was even elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She has attended the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication from where she graduated in 1979 with a BA in journalism with a perfect 4.0-grade point average.ĭuring her time there, she served on the Main Court of the University’s Student Judiciary and was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. to parents, Zachary Samuel Norville, and Merle O. Early Life & Biographyĭeborah Norville was born on the 8 th of August 1958 in Dalton, Georgia, the U.S.
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She markets and sells a line of yarns, which is named the Deborah Norville Collection.