Deborah Roberts Named ‘20/20’ Co-Anchor

Deborah Roberts
Deborah Roberts (Image credit: ABC/Heidi Gutman)

Deborah Roberts has been named co-anchor of the ABC newsmagazine 20/20. She’s been a contributing editor on the show for a year. She will join David Muir as co-anchor and remains senior national affairs correspondent at ABC News. 

Roberts has been reporting for 20/20 since 1995 and has reported for Good Morning America, Nightline and World News Tonight with David Muir. She’s also been a guest co-host on The View

“She is a skilled investigative journalist, oftentimes trekking across the country to conduct hard-hitting interviews providing viewers with relevant, insightful information,” ABC News president Kim Godwin said in a memo to staff. “Deborah is an empathetic reporter, bringing humanity to every story.”

Married to NBC News meteorologist Al Roker, Roberts was inducted into the B+C Hall of Fame earlier this year

She told B+C how both Diane Sawyer and the late Barbara Walters were “key mentors” when she came to ABC News. “Both reached out and both always had their doors open if I wanted to stop in,” she said. 

Roberts’s books include Lessons Learned and Cherished: The Teacher Who Changed My Life and Been There, Done That: Family Wisdom For Modern Times, which she wrote with Roker. 

Roone Arledge created 20/20, which debuted in 1978. Janice Johnston is the executive producer

Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.

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