Deborah Norville
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| Born |
Deborah Anne Norville August 8, 1958 Dalton, Georgia, United States |
| Alma mater | University of Georgia (B.A., Journalism, 1979) |
| Occupation | Television journalist |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Notable credit(s) |
Inside Edition CBS News Today NBC News at Sunrise Deborah Norville Yarn |
| Spouse(s) | Karl G. Wellner (1987–present) |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | www |
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 1995. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Viacom Corporation. 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.
Deborah Norville was born in Dalton, Georgia. Norville won her town’s local Junior Miss contest, a beauty contest for high school senior girls. Her talent was sewing. Norville went on to represent 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.
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 and was named a First Honor Graduate and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism degree. While at the University of Georgia, 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, 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. In January 1979, she conducted a live interview with President Jimmy Carter.
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