Deborah Norville is a fixture on the American media landscape.

 

In May 2025, the two-time Emmy© winner ended her unprecedented run as anchor of Inside Edition, the country’s top-rated and most honored syndicated newsmagazine. Her thirty-plus years in that role cemented her spot in television history as the longest-running anchor on American television, eclipsing the tenure of such icons as Johnny Carson (The Tonight Show), Oprah Winfrey (Oprah), and Barbara Walters (20/20). Ratings jumped 15% the week Norville joined the program and remained high ever since. With Norville as anchor, Inside Edition was consistently one of the top five programs in first-run syndication. At the time of her departure, the show outperformed both morning and primetime programs including Entertainment Tonight, The Today Show, Good Morning America, 20/20, Dateline and all of broadcast television's syndicated talk shows. During Deborah's tenure, Inside Edition was also the top domestic news and information channel on YouTube with over 25 billion lifetime views and 13.6 million subscribers. 

 

In Fall of 2025, Norville began a new chapter in her career as host of "The Perfect Line," a television game show produced by CBS Media Ventures and The Game Show Network. 

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Norville has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Daytime Emmys, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Broadcasters Foundation of America and is an inductee of the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame. of America. She joined Inside Edition in 1995 from CBS News and is a former co-host of NBC’s Today show and NBC News at Sunrise. 

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Deborah began her career at WAGA –TV in Atlanta, while still a student at the University of Georgia, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated First Honor Graduate summa cum laude with a perfect 4.0 GPA.  She later was an anchor and reporter at WMAQ-TV Chicago, host of the primetime “Deborah Norville Tonight” on MSNBC, and the “Deborah Norville Show” on the ABC Talk Radio Network. 

 

Norville is also a best-selling author and lecturer. Her book, "Thank You Power: Making the SCIENCE of Gratitude Work for YOU" (2007, Thomas Nelson) detailing the connection between gratitude and enhanced cognitive function and energy, was a New York Times best-seller as well as a best-seller in South Korea. She is a co-author and contributor to the popular “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series and the author of several other self-help books, best-selling children’s books and a number of books featuring knit and crochet patterns.