Deborah Roberts

Deborah Ann Roberts (born September 20, 1960) is an American television journalist for the ABC News division of the ABC broadcast television network.

Career

In 1982, Roberts began her career at WTVM, a local television station in Columbus, Georgia, and then she moved on to work at WBIR, a local television station in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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.

Roberts has won an Emmy Award and a Clarion Award for her reporting.

Roberts has contributed to the network's other platforms, including Primetime, Nightline and The Katie Couric Show.

Roberts hosts Lifetime Live on Lifetime Television, a cable and satellite television channel.

In 2016, the non-fiction book, Been There, Done That: Family Wisdom for Modern Times, written by Roberts and husband Al Roker, was published.

In 2021, Roberts received a Peabody Award for the 20/20 special report, "Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor."

Personal life Roberts resides in Manhattan with her husband Al Roker, whom she married in September 1995. They are the parents of daughter Leila (b. November 17, 1998) and son Nicholas (b. July 18, 2002). Roberts has a stepdaughter from her husband's prior marriage. The couple live in a townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side and also own a house in the foothills of the Berkshires.