Deborah Norville has been a fixture on the American media landscape for decades.  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 will begin 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. 

 

Norville was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame in 2016 and in 2024 received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Broadcasters Foundation of America. The veteran journalist joined Inside Edition in 1995 from CBS News where she was anchor and correspondent. She is a 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, the national “Deborah Norville Show” on the ABC Talk Radio Network and been a reporter and anchor for WMAQ-TV.. She 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 summa cum laude with a perfect 4.0 GPA and named First Honor Graduate. 

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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. 

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A lifelong crafter, Norville credits the confidence needed for her career to her love of crafting. She made much of her wardrobe early in her career and today enjoys sewing for her home. She has been the face of her own line of yarn and needles and is often knitting or crocheting off camera on the television set.  

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Norville is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Women's Forum of New York, and Women Corporate Directors and a Director for the Broadcasters Foundation of America and the Civic Association of Palm Beach, FL. Prior to the Viacom Corporation's merger with CBS, she was a member of that company's Board of Directors.  She is a member of the Women's Forum of New York and the invitation-only Women Corporate Directors and EWOB, Extraordinary Women on Boards.   She is a past board member of the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York and Rita Hayworth (Alzheimer’s) Gala Steering Committee. 

 

She is married and the mother of three.