
Norville began her career at WAGA-TV in Atlanta, while she was still a student at the University of Georgia. She is the former co-host of NBC’s “Today” and anchor of NBC “News at Sunrise.” During her career she has hosted the primetime “Deborah Norville Tonight” on MSNBC and also the national “Deborah Norville Show” on the ABC Talk Radio Network. She joined INSIDE EDITION in 1995 from CBS News where she was anchor and also correspondent. In 2016, Deborah, the longest serving anchor on American television, was admited formally in the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame. The television news magazine reaches a daily audience of just under 5 million viewers. Throughout her time, the show has consistently ranked in the top ten television shows in first-run syndication for the past ten years. Its ratings jumped 15% the week Norville joined the program and have elevated ever since. The two-time Emmy Award winner is an anchor of INSIDE EDITION, the country’s top-rated and most honored syndicated news magazine.

She was a semiregular anchor of the CBS Sunday Evening News from 1993 to 1995, which had been vacant since Connie Chung was promoted to co-anchor of the CBS Evening News. Norville was then assigned to the CBS Evening News and named co-anchor with Dana King of America Tonight, a prime-time news magazine. 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 CBS Newsĭeborah returned to television in October 1992, this is when she joined CBS News as a correspondent. When Deborah joined CBS News to resume her television career. The show ran from September 1991 to October 1992.

The Deborah Norville Show: From Her Home to Yours featured newsmaker interviews and also listener calls. In 1991 May, ABC TalkRadio Networks announced Norville would be hosting a prime-time program, broadcast from her homes in New York and Long Island. I worked Saturday and Sunday Sunday night after the 11 o’clock show I’d drive back and go to class Monday morning.” She conducted a live interview with President Jimmy Carter in January 1979. 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. Her 60-mile commute between school in Athens and work in Atlanta was grueling, as she remembered in an interview with Larry B. As she recalled, “The third day they were short on reporters and they asked me to cover a news story.” Deborah reported that evening on the six o’clock news and she was later offered a weekend reporting position during her senior year in college.

Initially, she was spotted by an executive of WAGA-TV in Atlanta, who offered her a summer internship. She received an internship through Georgia Public Television, where she worked on The Lawmakers, a nightly program covering the Georgia General Assembly. Deborah began her television career while still a college student.
