Deborah Norville Biography
Deborah Norville is a television journalist and entrepreneur from the United States. Norville has been the anchor of Inside Edition, a nationally syndicated television news magazine, since March 6, 1995. She is a member of Paramount Global’s board of directors.
Deborah Norville Age
Norville is 63 years old as of 2021. She was born on 8 August 1958 in Dalton, Georgia, United States.
Deborah Norville Height
Norville stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches(1.72 m).
Deborah Norville Family
Norville has not shared any information regarding her loving parents as of now, 2022. Nonetheless, we will update the site as soon as we get more intel from our trusted sources of information as soon as possible.
Deborah Norville Husband / Children / Daughter
Norville is married to Swedish businessman Karl Wellner. The couple married in 1987; They have three children, Niki Norville, born in 1991, Kyle Norville, born in 1995, and Mikaela Norville in 1998.
Deborah Norville Education
Norville is a University of Georgia graduate. She earned her BA in journalism from the university’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication in three years, summa cum laude, with a perfect 4.0-grade point average. She graduated with honors and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority and served on the University’s Student Judiciary’s Main Court during her studies.
Deborah Norville Salary
Norville earns an annual salary of $4 Million.
Deborah Norville Net Worth
Norville has an estimated net worth of $18 Million.
Deborah Norville NBC
Norville became the sole single female anchor of a network newscast when she joined NBC News in January 1987 as anchor of NBC News at Sunrise. When she joined Sunrise, the show’s ratings increased by 40%, and she was requested to fill in on NBC’s Today Show on occasion. According to Nielsen statistics, Norville’s documentary about violent teenaged girls, Bad Girls, debuted in August 1989 and was the ninth most-watched show the week it aired.
Norville joined Today as a news anchor in September 1989. Jane Pauley, today’s co-host, declared her intention to depart the show shortly after, and Norville was selected as her replacement. Jane Pauley later became the host of the prime-time show Real Life with Jane Pauley. In January 1990, Norville joined Today as a co-host. She won an Emmy for her involvement in NBC’s coverage of Romania’s democratic rise during her time on Today. After Norville’s arrival, Today’s ratings dropped. NBC executives were accused of botching the transfer.
Deborah Norville ABC
Deborah Norville was introduced as the anchor of a prime-time program by ABC TalkRadio Networks in May 1991, broadcasting from her homes in New York and Long Island. From Her Home to Yours featured newsmaker interviews and listener calls on Deborah Norville’s show. It aired from September 1991 to October 1992, when Norville returned to television with CBS News.
Deborah Norville Career
Norville began her career in television while still in college. She worked on The Lawmakers, a nightly program covering the Georgia General Assembly, as part of her internship with Georgia Public Television. An executive from Atlanta’s WAGA-TV noticed her and offered her a summer internship. “On the third day, they were short on reporters, so they asked me to cover a news story,” Norville remembered. She was hired as a weekend reporter during her senior year of college after reporting on the six o’clock news that evening.
According to Norville in an interview with Larry B. Dendy for the Georgia Alumni Record, the 60-mile drive between school in Athens and job in Atlanta was arduous. She gave a live interview with President Jimmy Carter in January 1979.
After graduating, Norville went to work for WAGA-TV as a full-time reporter, and in October 1979, he was promoted to weekend anchor. WMAQ-TV, an NBC-owned station in Chicago, hired her as a reporter and eventually an anchor in 1982. In the 1986 film Running Scared, starring Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal, a quick sight of Norville on a billboard during her time at WMAQ-TV may be seen in the background. Mayor Harold Washington declared “Deborah Norville Week” in Chicago in 1986, after it was announced that Norville would be joining NBC News in New York.
Norville returned to television in October 1992 as a journalist for CBS News. She worked as a reporter for Street Stories and 48 Hours, for which she received an Emmy for her coverage of the 1994 Mississippi floods. She was eventually promoted to co-anchor of the CBS Evening News with Dana King of America Tonight. Norville was a semiregular anchor of the CBS Sunday Evening News from 1993 to 1995, filling a vacancy left by Connie Chung’s promotion to co-anchor of the CBS Evening News.
Norville was selected anchor of Inside Edition, a syndicated newsmagazine, in 1995, and she still holds that role today. Her 20th anniversary on the show was marked in March 2015, with the show announcing that she had become the longest-serving female anchor on national television. Norville’s dispatches from the Davidson County, North Carolina, jail, billed as the “toughest in America,” her interview with Paula Jones, whose accusation of sexual harassment by then-President Bill Clinton led to the Monica Lewinsky scandal and impeachment proceedings, and her series of “jobs,” including the song “Keep On Movin,” were among her reports.
Norville composed the lyrics for the song, which was set to music by acclaimed producer Junior Vasquez, a challenge she highlighted in O, The Oprah Magazine. “”The strength I gained from meeting that challenge is still with me,” she remarked. It’s the feeling you get when you do something you never thought you could.”
Deborah Norville was added to MSNBC’s prime-time programming in 2003, hosting a 9:00 p.m. show. She departed Deborah Norville Tonight in 2005, citing the difficulty of balancing her Inside Edition and MSNBC responsibilities with her family obligations. Knit and Crochet Now!, a public television craft show, announced Norville’s hiring as host for the following season in 2015.
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