Emily Maitlis – Award-winning broadcaster

Award-winning journalist and broadcaster Emily Maitlis was recognised by GQ Magazine as one of the most influential people in Britain.

Having covered elections in the US and UK for the BBC, she has also fronted Newsnight, becoming a stalwart of the broadcaster’s news output and a trusted voice with the viewing public.

She has interviewed Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton as well as each of the last six UK Prime Ministers among numerous other political leaders.

In the world of culture and international affairs she has sat down with subjects including Mark Zuckerberg, Usain Bolt, Sheryl Sandberg, Marine le Pen, Emma Thompson.

Emily Maitlis award host and presenter

In a ground-breaking interview that defined the news and cultural narrative she spoke exclusively to Prince Andrew, as the royal talked publicly for the first time about his links to Jeffrey Epstein.

Having departed the BBC and signed with Global, the media and entertainment group, the next chapter of her career will build upon the success she enjoyed with the Americast podcast.

She will once again team with Jon Sopel for a new project under the Global banner.

Emily delivered the flagship address of the 2022 Edinburgh TV Festival – The James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture – as the Festival returns to an in-person event at the end of August, the lecture covered the complex world of modern journalism where the threat to reporting the news and holding power to account across the globe, comes not just with intimidation and outright censorship, but in more nuanced ways with language and normalizing the extraordinary.

Maitlis is also author of the Sunday Times bestseller, Airhead: An Exploration of the Imperfect Art of Making News, which is currently being adapted.

She has also written for The Sunday Times and the Spectator as well as the Guardian, the Evening Standard and the New Statesman.

Emily Maitlis award host and presenter

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