Deborah Norville brings to Inside Edition more than two decades of broadcast journalism experience. Celebrating her 12th anniversary as anchor in 2007, Norville has led the series to new strength and respect. Ratings jumped 15% the week she joined the series in 1995, and Inside Edition is now the nation’s top-rated syndicated newsmagazine.

Inside Edition provides Norville with an intensive workday that nevertheless can be followed with family dinner at home. Still taking on numerous on-location assignments, she traveled to Rome in 2005 to anchor coverage of Pope John Paul II’s funeral, and to Washington D.C. for President Reagan’s funeral.

Comfortable not only in the power centers of the world, Norville also immerses herself in several grueling and not-very-glamorous locales for Inside Edition, traveling around the nation to bring viewers a series of reports on America’s toughest jobs. She picked produce in the blazing California sun, collected tolls in a claustrophobic New Jersey tollbooth, sold peanuts at a Philly’s game, and toiled as a dishwasher at a popular New York City diner during lunch.

She went to Hawaii for the first national interview with Bethany Hamilton, the young surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack. She was on the scene of the American Airlines jet crash in Cali, Colombia, and interviewed Paula Jones for the first wide-ranging talk about the lawsuit against then-President Bill Clinton. She made national headlines by spending—and reporting on—five days as an inmate in a North Carolina penal institution known as the “toughest jail in America.” The story won Norville two national awards for reporting excellence. On a much lighter note, she also took viewers inside the recording industry by re-inventing herself as a rock diva for a day—recording a song, shooting a video and tackling a glamour shoot for a CD cover.

In 2001, following the tragic events of September 11, Norville flew with the 177th Fighter Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard, as they patrolled New York City airspace. She also gathered victims of anthrax poisoning and those who lost loved ones at the World Trade Center to talk about life after September 11.

A two-time Emmy Award-winner, Norville joined Inside Edition from CBS News, where she anchored America Tonight, and reported for 48 Hours, Street Stories and CBS Evening News. Prior to working at CBS, she hosted the nationally syndicated Deborah Norville Radio Show, heard on more than 200 stations via the ABC Radio network. At NBC, she served as news anchor and, later, co-host of NBC’S Today show, positions that followed her tenure as anchor of NBC News At Sunrise. She briefly returned to NBC News to anchor the primetime Deborah Norville Tonight on MSNBC, while simultaneously anchoring Inside Edition.

Norville, while still a college student, began her career as a reporter and, later, weekend anchor for WAGA-TV in Atlanta. Subsequently, she worked for WMAQ-TV, the NBC-owned station in Chicago, where she served as a reporter and, later, anchor.

Beyond broadcast journalism, Deborah Norville is also an author. Her first book, Back On Track: How To Straighten Out Your Life When It Throws You A Curve (Simon & Schuster, 1997), drew upon Deborah’s experiences at NBC’s Today showto offer a plan for renewal and redirection for women everywhere. I Don’t Want To Sleep Tonight (Golden Books, 1999) offers children (and their parents) suggestions to keep scary dreams away at night. This highly acclaimed book has been one of Golden Books’ strongest sellers. I Can Fly followed in March 2001 to help kids find their own talents and increase their self-esteem.

Norville is active in a number of charities. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York, Broadcasters Foundation, Steering Committee for the Rita Hayworth (Alzheimer’s) Gala, and the Women’s Committee of the Central Park Conservancy, and has been National Celebrity Spokesperson for the Mother’s March of Dimes.

The recipient of a number of awards, Norville has been named “Best in the Business” (Washington Journalism Review), Mother of the Year (National Mother’s Day Committee) and Person of the Year (Rita Hayworth Gala). She is also the recipient of two national Emmys, AWRT’s Gracie Award, a local Emmy and a Silver Plaque from the Chicago Film Festival.

A sought-after lecturer, Norville speaks with candor and humor about dealing with life’s curves and juggling a career and motherhood. She is married and the mother of three. She can be reached via her Web site: www.dnorville.com.