Deborah Norville is a TV journalist and a bussinesswoman that is very famous in the USA.
Let’s dive into some trivia and facts about her and her life!
- Her full name is Deborah Anne Norville
- She was born on August 8, 1958
- She 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 1995
- She is a member of the board of directors of the Viacom Corporation
- She markets and sells a line of yarns 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
- Deborah 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
- Deborah 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
- 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
- Deborah Norville began her television career while still a college student
- She received an internship through Georgia Public Television
- There 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
- 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 January 1979, she conducted a live interview with President Jimmy Carter
- Deborah Norville joined WAGA-TV as a full-time reporter after graduating
- And was named weekend anchor in October 1979
- In 1982 she was hired as a reporter
- And later anchor by WMAQ-TV
- The NBC-owned station in Chicago
- In 1986, when it was announced Norville would be joining NBC News in New York, Mayor Harold Washington declared “Deborah Norville Week” in Chicago
- 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
- Ratings on Sunrise jumped 40 percent when she joined the program
- Which led to her being asked to occasionally substitute on NBC’s Today Show
- In August 1989, a documentary in which Norville was the primary host, Bad Girls, on violent teenaged girls, was the seventh most watched show the week it aired
- In September 1989 Norville was named news anchor on Today
- Soon after, Today co-host Jane Pauley announced her desire to leave the Today Show
- And Deborah Norville was named her successor
- Norville became co-host of Today in January 1990
- During her tenure on Today, she won an Emmy award for her role in NBC’s coverage of the democratic uprising in Romania
- Ratings on Today declined after Deborah Norville’s arrival
- NBC management was accused of mishandling the transition
- After Norville took maternity leave on the birth of her first child, she did not return to the program
- 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
- It ran from September 1991 to October 1992
- When Norville joined CBS News to resume her television career
- Deborah Norville returned to television in October 1992
- When she joined CBS News as a correspondent
- She reported for Street Stories and 48 Hours
- For which she won her second Emmy award for coverage of the Mississippi floods of 1994
- She was later assigned to the CBS Evening News
- And named co-anchor with Dana King of America Tonight
- From 1993 to 1995, 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
- In March 2015, the show celebrated her 20th anniversary on the program
- Noting that she was now the longest serving female anchor on national television
- In 2003 MSNBC announced Deborah Norville was joining its prime-time lineup to host a 9 p.m. program
- She left Deborah Norville Tonight in 2005
- Citing the challenge of juggling her Inside Edition and MSNBC duties along with family responsibilities
- In 2015 Knit and Crochet Now!, a craft show seen on public television, announced the appointment of Norville as host of its upcoming season
- Alongside her television career, Norville has frequently moonlighted as a writer
- She 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
- She published the New York Times best-seller Thank You Power: Making the Science of Gratitude Work for You (Thomas Nelson, 2007), featuring the benefits found by research on gratitude
- This was preceded by Back on Track: How To Straighten Out Your Life When It Throws You a Curve (Simon and Schuster, 1997)
- Which drew on her earlier experiences on the Today Show
- The Power of Respect: Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success (Thomas Nelson, 2009)
- Explains through scientific evidence, how respect is power in business, at home, and in your personal life
- Her history of Inside Edition, The Way We Are: Heroes, Scoundrels, and Oddballs from 25 Years of Inside Edition, written with Charlie Carillo
- And with a foreword by Donald Trump (Inside Edition Books, 2013)
- Details all 8,150 episodes of the show, celebrating its 25th anniversary
- Additionally, she has written several knit and crochet pattern books
- Most notably Knit With Deborah Norville- 18 Classic Designs For The Whole Family (Leisure Arts, Inc., 2009)
- She has also written two children’s books
- I Don’t Want to Sleep Tonight (Golden Books, 1999) and I Can Fly (Golden Books, 2001)
- And contributed to several editions of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series
- In 2008 Deborah Norville began performing in infomercials
- In addition to commercials for anti-aging cream and lotions, she launched the Deborah Norville Collection of knit and crochet yarns in partnership with Premier Yarns
- A North Carolina- based yarn manufacturer
- Deborah Norville debuted the line at the 2009 Craft Hobby Show
- The craft industry’s premier convention
- There she also served as the keynote speaker
- The Norville yarn line and other knit and crochet accessories are available in retail craft stores and online
- Deborah Norville was elected to the board of directors of the Viacom Corporation in March 2013
- She serves on the company’s compensation committee
- Norville married Swedish businessman Karl Wellner in 1987
- The couple has three children, Niki, Kyle, and Mikaela
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