PERSON: Deborah Norville

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Deborah Anne Norville (born August 8, 1958) is an American television journalist and businesswoman. Norville is the anchor of Inside Edition, a syndicated television news magazine, a position she has held since March 6, 1995. She markets and sells a line of yarns (Deborah Norville Collection) for knit and crochet enthusiasts, manufactured by Premier Yarns. Previously, she was an anchor and correspondent for CBS News and earlier co-host of Today on NBC.[4] Her book Thank You Power was a New York Times best-seller.

Norville was born in Dalton, Georgia. 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. 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. She hosted the 1999 America’s Junior Miss contest.

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