Roberts was born in Perry, Georgia to business owner Benjamin Roberts and housewife Ruth Roberts. In 1982, she earned a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Roberts received the University of Georgia Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1992 for her rapid success as a journalist.

Roberts began her career in 1982 at WTVM, a local television station in Columbus, Georgia, and later at WBIR, a local television station in Knoxville, Tennessee. She worked as the bureau chief/NASA field reporter/weekend news co-anchor at WFTV, a local television station in Orlando, Florida, from 1987 to 1990. She began her career at NBC News as a general assignment reporter in 1990 and later became a correspondent for Dateline NBC, an NBC News newsmagazine program. Roberts joined ABC News in 1995 as a correspondent for the newsmagazine program 20/20, as well as an anchor for World News Tonight Weekend, the weekend evening news program, and Good Morning America, the morning news program. She appeared as a guest host on The View, a talk show produced by ABC Daytime, a division of ABC, in July and September 2006.

Deborah Roberts siblings: Tina Clarington

Tina Clarington is Deborah Roberts’ older sister. Little is known about her.

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