Deborah Anne Norville (born August 8, 1958) is an American television
journalist and businesswoman. Norville is the anchor of Inside
Edition, a syndicated television news magazine, a position she has
held since March 6, 1995. She is a member of the board of directors of
ViacomCBS. She markets and sells a line of yarns (Deborah Norville
Collection) for knit and crochet enthusiasts, manufactured by Premier
Yarns. Previously, she was an anchor and correspondent for CBS News
and earlier co-host of Today on NBC. Her book Thank You Power was a
New York Times best-seller.Norville was born in Dalton, Georgia. She
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. She 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. She hosted the 1999 America's Junior Miss contest.Norville
is a graduate of the University of Georgia. She graduated summa cum
laude in three years with a perfect 4.0 grade point average in earning
her BA in journalism from the university’s Grady College of
Journalism and Mass Communication. She was named a First Honor
Graduate and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. During her studies, she served
on the Main Court of the University’s Student Judiciary and was a
member of Delta Delta Delta sorority.Norville began her television
career while still a college student. She received an internship
through Georgia Public Television, where she worked on The Lawmakers,
a nightly program covering the Georgia General Assembly. She was
spotted by an executive of WAGA-TV in Atlanta, who offered her a
summer internship. As Norville recalled, "The third day they were
short on reporters and they asked me to cover a news story." She
reported that evening on the six o’clock news and was later offered
a weekend reporting position during her senior year in college. The
60-mile commute between school in Athens and work in Atlanta was
grueling, as remembered by Norville in an interview with Larry B.
Dendy for the Georgia Alumni Record (February 1990): "I'd leave the
university on Friday afternoon and drive to Atlanta, and sometimes I
had a place to stay and sometimes I slept in my car in the parking
lot. I worked Saturday and Sunday; Sunday night after the 11:00 p.m.
show I'd drive back and go to class Monday morning." In January 1979,
she conducted a live interview with President Jimmy Carter.
journalist and businesswoman. Norville is the anchor of Inside
Edition, a syndicated television news magazine, a position she has
held since March 6, 1995. She is a member of the board of directors of
ViacomCBS. She markets and sells a line of yarns (Deborah Norville
Collection) for knit and crochet enthusiasts, manufactured by Premier
Yarns. Previously, she was an anchor and correspondent for CBS News
and earlier co-host of Today on NBC. Her book Thank You Power was a
New York Times best-seller.Norville was born in Dalton, Georgia. She
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. She 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. She hosted the 1999 America's Junior Miss contest.Norville
is a graduate of the University of Georgia. She graduated summa cum
laude in three years with a perfect 4.0 grade point average in earning
her BA in journalism from the university’s Grady College of
Journalism and Mass Communication. She was named a First Honor
Graduate and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. During her studies, she served
on the Main Court of the University’s Student Judiciary and was a
member of Delta Delta Delta sorority.Norville began her television
career while still a college student. She received an internship
through Georgia Public Television, where she worked on The Lawmakers,
a nightly program covering the Georgia General Assembly. She was
spotted by an executive of WAGA-TV in Atlanta, who offered her a
summer internship. As Norville recalled, "The third day they were
short on reporters and they asked me to cover a news story." She
reported that evening on the six o’clock news and was later offered
a weekend reporting position during her senior year in college. The
60-mile commute between school in Athens and work in Atlanta was
grueling, as remembered by Norville in an interview with Larry B.
Dendy for the Georgia Alumni Record (February 1990): "I'd leave the
university on Friday afternoon and drive to Atlanta, and sometimes I
had a place to stay and sometimes I slept in my car in the parking
lot. I worked Saturday and Sunday; Sunday night after the 11:00 p.m.
show I'd drive back and go to class Monday morning." In January 1979,
she conducted a live interview with President Jimmy Carter.
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