DEBORAH NORVILLE

Former long-time, Emmy-winning anchor of Inside Edition and host of CBS’s The Perfect Line

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, a role that cemented her spot in television history as the longest-running anchor on American television. Her tenure eclipsed that of such icons as Johnny Carson (The Tonight Show), Oprah Winfrey (Oprah), and Barbara Walters (20/20).

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.

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.

Norville 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 bestselling author and lecturer. Her New York Times best-seller, Thank You Power: Making the SCIENCE of Gratitude Work for YOU (2007, Thomas Nelson). It was also a best-seller in South Korea.

Norville is a member of the Council for Foreign Relations and serves on the Boards of the Cox Science Center & Aquarium, the Broadcasters Foundation and is a director of the Palm Beach Civic Association among other involvements.  She can be reached via her website www.DeborahNorville.com.