Editing Deborah Roberts

{{short description|American television journalist (born 1960)}}
{{About|the American television journalist|the American artist|Deborah Roberts (visual artist)}}
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| name              = Deborah Roberts
| image             = Deborah Roberts (51912695624) (cropped).jpg
| caption           = Roberts in March 2022
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1960|9|20}}
| birth_place       = [[Perry, Georgia]], U.S.
| death_date        =
| death_place       =
| education         = [[University of Georgia]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| occupation        = Journalist
| spouse            = [[Al Roker]] (m. 1995)
| years_active      = 1982–present
| domestic_partner  =
| children          = 2
| credits           = ''[[20/20 (American TV program)|20/20]]'' co-anchor <br>''[[Dateline NBC]]'' correspondent<br>''Lifetime Live'' host
| website    = [https://abcnews.go.com/News/deborah-roberts-abc-news-official-biography/story?id=126352 Deborah Roberts ABC News profile]
}}

'''Deborah Ann Roberts''' (born September 20, 1960) is an American television journalist for the [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] division of the ABC broadcast television network.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Simmons |first=Kelly |date=December 2006 |volume=86 |issue=1 |url=http://www.uga.edu/gm/artman/publish/0612roberts.html |title=Alumni Profile: 20/20 Vision — ABC Correspondent Deborah Roberts (ABJ '82) Is at the Top of Her Game in Network News |journal=Georgia |publisher=[[University of Georgia]] |access-date=December 20, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606060729/http://www.uga.edu/gm/artman/publish/0612roberts.html |archive-date=June 6, 2011 |df=mdy }}</ref><ref name=UT/>

==Early life and education==
Roberts was born in Perry, Georgia to Benjamin Roberts, a business owner, and Ruth Roberts, a housewife. She graduated from the [[Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication]] at the [[University of Georgia]] with a [[Bachelor of Journalism]] in 1982. In 1992, Roberts was awarded the University of Georgia Distinguished Alumnus Award for her rapid success as a journalist.<ref name="News">{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/2020/abc-news-correspondent-deborah-roberts/story?id=123929|title=Deborah Roberts: ABC News Correspondent|date=October 14, 2016|website=ABC News|access-date=March 24, 2017}}</ref>

==Career==
[[File:DeborahRobertsMay09.jpg|thumb|Roberts in May 2009]]

In 1982, Roberts began her career at [[WTVM]], a local television station in Columbus, Georgia, and then she moved on to work at [[WBIR-TV|WBIR]], a local television station in Knoxville, Tennessee.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Leonard|first1=Chuck|title=WTVM 60th Anniversary: A familiar face on ABC News 20/20|url=http://www.wtvm.com/story/23661174/wtvm-60th-anniversary-a-familiar-face-on-abc-news-2020|access-date=May 18, 2016|publisher=[[WTVM]]|date=October 10, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Deborah Roberts|url=https://abcnews.go.com/News/deborah-roberts-abc-news-official-biography/story?id=126352|access-date=May 18, 2016|work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|date=April 9, 2012}}</ref>

From 1987 to 1990, she was bureau chief/[[NASA]] field reporter/weekend news co-anchor at [[WFTV]], a local television station in Orlando, Florida. In 1990, she joined [[NBC News]] as a general-assignment reporter and later was a correspondent for ''[[Dateline NBC]]'', an NBC News [[newsmagazine]] program.<ref name="News"/>

Roberts moved to ABC News in 1995 as a correspondent for ''[[20/20 (American TV program)|20/20]]'', a newsmagazine program, as well as an anchor for ''[[ABC World News#Weekend newscasts|World News Tonight Weekend]]'', the weekend evening news program, and for ''[[Good Morning America]]'', the morning news program. In July and September 2006, she was a guest host on ''[[The View (U.S. TV series)|The View]]'', a talk show produced by ABC Daytime, a division of ABC.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bio: Deborah Roberts|url=https://www.bet.com/article/e7dkrc/bio-deborah-roberts|access-date=May 18, 2016|publisher=[[BET]]|date=October 6, 2010}}</ref>

Roberts has won an [[Emmy Award]] and a Clarion Award for her reporting.<ref>{{cite web |title=Deborah Roberts |url=https://abcnews.go.com/News/deborah-roberts-abc-news-official-biography/story?id=126352 |website=abcnews.go.com |publisher=ABC NEWS |access-date=5 June 2019}}</ref>

Roberts has contributed to other of the network's platforms, including ''[[Good Morning America]]'', ''[[Primetime]]'', ''[[Nightline]]'', and ''[[Katie (talk show)|The Katie Couric Show]]''.

Roberts hosts ''Lifetime Live'' on [[Lifetime (TV network)|Lifetime Television]], a cable and [[satellite television]] channel.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Oxman|first1=Steven|title=Review: 'Lifetime Live'|url=https://variety.com/2000/tv/reviews/lifetime-live-1200461287/|access-date=May 18, 2016|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=March 8, 2000}}</ref>

In 2016, the non-fiction book, ''[[Been There, Done That (book)|Been There, Done That: Family Wisdom for Modern Times]]'', written by Roberts and husband [[Al Roker]], was published.<ref name=UT>{{cite web|work=[[USA Today]]|title=Al Roker, Deborah Roberts write about their marriage|last=McClurg|first=Jocelyn|date=January 5, 2016|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2016/01/05/al-roker-deborah-roberts-book-been-there-done-that/78276688/}}</ref>

In 2021, Roberts received a [[Peabody Awards|Peabody Award]] for the [[20/20 (American TV program)|20/20]] special report, "Say Her Name: [[Breonna Taylor]]."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-26 |title=Deborah Roberts to co-anchor '20/20′ |url=https://news.yahoo.com/deborah-roberts-co-anchor-20-214816842.html |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=Yahoo News |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Roberts resides in Manhattan with her husband [[Al Roker]], whom she married in September 1995;<ref>{{cite news|title=Al Roker and Deborah Roberts|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/17/style/al-roker-and-deborah-roberts.html|access-date=May 18, 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 17, 1995}}</ref> they have a daughter and a son. Roberts has a stepdaughter from her husband's prior marriage.

==See also==
* [[New Yorkers in journalism]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|731008}}
* [[Staff writer]] (April 25, 2007).  [https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=126352 "Deborah Roberts — ABC News Correspondent"].  [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]].  Accessed December 20, 2009.

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