She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Women's Forum of New York, and Women Corporate Directors. Norville serves as a Director for the Broadcasters Foundation of America. She is a past board member of the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York, Rita Hayworth (Alzheimer’s) Steering Committee. Norville is a member of the Board of Directors for the Viacom Corporation and serves on the Compensation Committee. She is also co-author and contributor to the popular “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series and the author of several other self-help books, as well as two best-selling children’s books and a number of books featuring knit and crochet patterns.Ī 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. 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.
The veteran journalist joined Inside Edition in 1995 from CBS News where she was anchor and correspondent. Norville is the former co-host of NBC’s “Today” and anchor of NBC "News at Sunrise." During the course of her career she has hosted the primetime “Deborah Norville Tonight” on MSNBC and the national “Deborah Norville Show” on the ABC Talk Radio Network. 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, 4.0 First Honor Graduate. She has also been a reporter and anchor for WMAQ-TV. Moret says, "When I wrote the first two chapters, I showed them to my wife and she cried, and it was the first time she ever realized the depths of the pain.Two-time Emmy© Award winner Deborah Norville is Anchor of Inside Edition, the country’s top-rated and most honored syndicated newsmagazine. Ratings jumped 15% the week Norville joined the program and have remained high ever since. Throughout her tenure, the show has consistently ranked in the top ten television shows in first-run syndication. Inside Edition reaches a daily audience of just under five million viewers.ĭeborah Norville is currently the longest serving anchor on American television and an inductee into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame. "Nobody knew, your wife Keri didn't know, your kids didn't have any sense?" asks Norville. Moret says the experience re-defined his life: "We often value ourselves based upon our bank accounts. The image passed and I saw my children and my wife and the pain that I would cause them." It was really a turning point in my life, I stopped the car and it was a scared straight moment because it was a true wakeup call, where I thought, 'Do I really want to do this?' And I thought first of my family, and they saved my life, they really did. "On that road I really was Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life, I was on that bridge, ready to jump. Inside Edition anchor Deborah Norville revealed to viewers on Monday that she will undergo surgery to remove a cancerous nodule on her thyroid.The doctor says it’s a very localized form. "And that's where I turned down this dark path in my mind and I thought, 'All I have to do is turn that wheel a little bit and I'll go right over the cliff, it'll look like an accident and everything will be fine,' " Moret says. "You drove the Pacific Coast Highway, you found the stretch of road, you saw where it dropped 100 feet," prompts Norville. Those thoughts took a dark turn in April 2008, when Moret was driving on the Pacific Coast Highway near Malibu.