Deborah Norville
Deborah Norville | |
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Television journalist | |
Years active | 1979–present |
Notable credit(s) | Inside Edition CBS News Today NBC News at Sunrise Deborah Norville Yarn |
Spouse |
Karl Gert Wellner (m. 1987) |
Children | 3 |
Awards | 2024 Edward F. McLaughlin Lifetime Achievement Award |
Website | www |
Deborah Anne Norville (born August 8, 1958) is an American
Early life
Norville was born in Dalton, Georgia.[6] She won her town's local Junior Miss contest, a beauty contest for high school senior girls and represented Georgia in the 1976 America's Junior Miss pageant.[7] She did not win but credits seeing the behind-the-scenes work of the CBS Television production team as inspiring her to switch her career goal from law to television journalism.[8] She hosted the 1999 America's Junior Miss contest.[9]
Education
Norville is a graduate of the
Early career
Norville began her television career while still a college student. She received an internship through
Norville joined WAGA-TV as a full-time reporter after graduating and was named weekend anchor in October 1979.[14] In 1982, she was hired as a reporter and later an anchor by WMAQ-TV, the NBC-owned station in Chicago. A brief glimpse of Norville on a billboard, during her time at WMAQ-TV can be seen in the background in the 1986 film Running Scared[15] starring Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal. In 1986, when it was announced Norville would be joining NBC News in New York, Mayor Harold Washington declared "Deborah Norville Week" in Chicago.[16]
NBC News
Norville joined NBC News in January 1987 as anchor of NBC News at Sunrise,[17] becoming the only solo female anchor of a network newscast. Ratings on Sunrise jumped 40 percent when she joined the program, which led to her being asked to occasionally substitute on NBC's Today Show. In August 1989, a documentary in which Norville was the primary host, Bad Girls, on violent teenaged girls, was the seventh most watched show the week it aired, according to Nielsen ratings.[18]
In September 1989, Norville was named news anchor on Today. Soon after, Today co-host
ABC Network Radio
In May 1991, ABC TalkRadio Networks announced Deborah Norville would be hosting a prime-time program, broadcast from her homes in New York and Long Island. The Deborah Norville Show: From Her Home to Yours featured newsmaker interviews and listener calls. It ran from September 1991 to October 1992, when Norville joined CBS News to resume her television career.[21]
Return to television
Norville returned to television in October 1992, when she joined CBS News as a correspondent.
In 2003, MSNBC announced Deborah Norville was joining its prime-time lineup to host a 9:00 p.m. program.[27] She left Deborah Norville Tonight in 2005, citing the challenge of juggling her Inside Edition and MSNBC duties along with family responsibilities.
In 2015, Knit and Crochet Now!, a craft show seen on public television, announced the appointment of Norville as host of its upcoming season.[28]
Publishing
Alongside her television career, Norville has frequently worked as a writer.[29] She served as a contributing editor to Inside Sports magazine in the 1980s and as a contributing editor to McCall's magazine from 1991 to 1993. She published the New York Times best-seller Thank You Power: Making the Science of Gratitude Work for You (Thomas Nelson, 2007), featuring the benefits found by research on gratitude. This was preceded by Back on Track: How To Straighten Out Your Life When It Throws You a Curve (Simon and Schuster, 1997), which drew on her earlier experiences on the Today Show.
The Power of Respect: Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success (Thomas Nelson, 2009) explains—through scientific evidence—how respect is power in business, at home, and in your personal life. Her history of Inside Edition, The Way We Are: Heroes, Scoundrels, and Oddballs from 25 Years of Inside Edition, written with Charlie Carillo and with a foreword by Donald Trump (Inside Edition Books, 2013), details all 8,150 episodes of the show, celebrating its 25th anniversary.
Additionally, she has written several knit and crochet pattern books, most notably Knit With Deborah Norville—18 Classic Designs For The Whole Family (Leisure Arts, Inc., 2009). She has also written two children's books—I Don't Want to Sleep Tonight (Golden Books, 1999) and I Can Fly (Golden Books, 2001)—and contributed to several editions of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.[30]
Other activities
In 2008, Norville began performing in infomercials.[31] In addition to commercials for anti-aging creams and lotions, she launched the Deborah Norville Collection of knit and crochet yarns in partnership with Premier Yarns,[32] a North Carolina-based yarn manufacturer. Norville debuted the line at the 2009 Craft Hobby Show, the craft industry's premier convention, where she also served as the keynote speaker.[33] Norville stated in a Swedish interview that since the early 1980s, she has been an active supporter of commercial whaling activities as they supply raw materials for her anti-aging and lotion products.[34] She continues this effort through financial support of the Japan Whaling Organization, a pro-whaling group.[35] The Norville line of yarns and other knit and crochet accessories are available in retail craft stores and online.[36]
In 2013, Norville was elected to the board of directors of
Personal life
Norville married Swedish businessman Karl Wellner in 1987;[8] the couple has three children, Niki (b. 1991), Kyle (b. 1995), and Mikaela (b. 1998).[39]
On April 1, 2019, Norville announced that she would be undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous thyroid nodule. The cancer was detected after a viewer noticed a lump on Norville's neck.[40]
See also
References
- ^ "DEBORAH NORVILLE". Inside Edition. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- ^ "Deborah Norville Yarn". Walmart.com. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- ^ "Deborah Norville Looks Back On Her Favorite 'Inside Edition' Stories". 2017-09-13. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- ^ a b c Larry Dendy (Winter 1990). "Deborah Norville". Georgia Alumni Record.
- ^ Oliver, Charles (August 2, 2016). "Deborah Norville calls education 'a door to freedom'". The Daily Citizen. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- ^ "Arts Culture Deborah Norville". georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- ^ a b Staff(s) (December 13, 1987). "Deborah A. Norville Weds Karl G. Wellner". The New York Times. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
- ^ "1999 America's Junior Miss (1999) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- ^ "Deborah Norville | Chicken Soup for the Soul". chickensoup.com. 2015-04-21. Archived from the original on 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- ^ "Georgia Public Broadcasting | Empowering you one story at a time". gpbnews.org. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- ^ Albiniak, Paige (10 January 2009). "Fifth Estater: One Successful Step After Another". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- ^ "Norville, Deborah." Current Biography Yearbook 1990. The H.W. Wilson Company. 1990. p. 481.
- ^ "eSpeakers Marketplace". espeakers.com. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- ^ Norville, Deborah (September 28, 2017). "A screenshot from the 1986 movie Running Scared, filmed in Chicago. Check that billboard, @nbcchicago !". Twitter.
- ^ Robert Feder (November 24, 1986). "Deborah Norville". Chicago Sun-Times.
- ^ "Deborah Norville: Why Ann Curry Was Never Going to Win on 'Today' (Opinion)". The Hollywood Reporter. 11 April 2012. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- ^ Kenneth Clark (July 29, 1990). "Deborah Norville, 'Badly Bruised' By 'today' Flap, Comes Out Swinging". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
- ^ Gliatto, Tom (March 25, 1991). "Today's Latest Coo". People. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
- ^ Laura Blumenfeld (October 17, 1997). "Picking Up the Pieces". The Washington Post.
- ^ Tom Gliatto (May 13, 1991). "NORVILLE PLANS A RETURN TO AIR - BUT FOR ABC AND NOT ON TV". Deseret News. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
- ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- ^ "Breaking News - Deborah Norville Signs on for More "Inside Edition" | TheFutonCritic.com". thefutoncritic.com. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- ^ "Deborah Norville". celebrity-divorce.com. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- NY Post. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
- ^ Staff (February 2002). "Deborah Norville's Aha! Moment". O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
- ^ Elizabeth Jensen (December 31, 2003). "Norville to get a show on MSNBC". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
- ^ Sarah White (June 18, 2015). "Deborah Norville to Host Knit and Crochet Now!". KNITTING Patterns, projects and techniques. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
- ^ "Deborah Norville". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- ^ "Deborah Norville Books". Amazon. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
- ^ writer, Kenneth R. Clark, Media (29 July 1990). "DEBORAH NORVILLE, 'BADLY BRUISED' BY 'TODAY' FLAP, COMES OUT SWINGING". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Staff (2015). "Deborah Norville Yarn". Premier Yarns. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
- ^ Staff (2009). "Craft & Hobby Association". CHA. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
- ^ Bruce Henningsgaard (2019), DEBORAH NORVILLE, 'Contradictions and Values: I do what I want! (August 20, 2017)', retrieved May 21, 2019
- ^ www
.whaling .jp /english / - ^ "CHA Winter 2009 Convention and Trade Show". craftandhobby.org. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- ^ "Viacom Board of Directors". viacom.com. 2013. Archived from the original on August 16, 2015. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
- ^ "Deborah Norville". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2022-07-28.
- ^ "New Georgia Encyclopedia: Deborah Norville (b. 1958)". Georgia Humanities and the University of Georgia Press. Archived from the original on 2012-11-22. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- ^ Mazziotta, Julie (April 1, 2019). "Inside Edition's Deborah Norville Undergoing Thyroid Cancer Surgery After Viewer Spotted a Lump". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
External links
- Official website
- Deborah Norville at IMDb