1. Emily Maitlis was the lead anchor of the BBC Two news and current affairs programme Newsnight until the end of 2021.
37 Facts About Emily Maitlis
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Emily Maitlis has since been a presenter of the daily podcast The News Agents on LBC Radio.
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Emily Maitlis is the daughter of Peter Maitlis, Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield, and Marion Basco, a psychotherapist from Cambridge.
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Emily Maitlis's mother studied French and Spanish at St Hugh's College, Oxford.
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Emily Maitlis was brought up on Park Avenue in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, with her two older sisters, Nicky and Sally.
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Emily Maitlis was educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield, and read English at Queens' College, Cambridge.
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Emily Maitlis initially wanted to work as a theatre director, prompted by her love for drama, but instead went into radio broadcasting.
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Emily Maitlis worked for the NBC network and was based in Hong Kong.
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Emily Maitlis spent six years in Hong Kong with TVB News and NBC Asia, initially as a business reporter creating documentaries and then as a presenter in Hong Kong covering the collapse of the tiger economies in 1997.
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Emily Maitlis covered the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong with Jon Snow for Channel 4.
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Emily Maitlis moved to Sky News in the UK as a business correspondent and to BBC London News when the programme was relaunched in 2001.
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Emily Maitlis was a regular presenter on the BBC News Channel for a decade between 2006 and 2016, alongside Ben Brown and Jon Sopel.
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Emily Maitlis presented BBC Breakfast and, from May 2006 until July 2007, presented STORYFix on BBC News, a light-hearted look at the week's news set to upbeat music.
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In 2012, Emily Maitlis presented the US 2012 election coverage on BBC One and the BBC News Channel alongside David Dimbleby, when incumbent US President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were fighting for the presidency of the US.
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Emily Maitlis was a leading presenter of Newsnight on BBC Two, alongside Kirsty Wark and Emma Barnett.
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Emily Maitlis joined the programme as a relief presenter in 2006, working her way up to be the lead anchor of the programme following the departure of Evan Davis in 2018.
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Emily Maitlis was an executive producer on A Very Royal Scandal, a film about the interview.
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From 2020, Emily Maitlis presented the BBC podcast, Americast, with Jon Sopel, the BBC's North America editor.
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On 22 February 2022, Emily Maitlis announced her resignation from the BBC after signing with Global, the parent of LBC.
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Emily Maitlis launched a daily podcast and joint radio show again with ex-BBC journalist Jon Sopel.
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In May 2023, Emily Maitlis was featured in a two-part Channel 4 documentary called Andrew: The Problem Prince, which explores the events leading up to Prince Andrew's infamous Newsnight interview of 2019.
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In November 2023, Emily Maitlis was named as an executive producer on A Very Royal Scandal with Emily Maitlis being played by Ruth Wilson and Michael Sheen as Prince Andrew.
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Emily Maitlis hosted overnight coverage of both the 2024 United Kingdom general election and the 2024 United States elections for Channel 4 alongside Krishnan Guru-Murthy.
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Emily Maitlis had accused Liddle of writing columns containing "consistent casual racism week after week" and asked Liddle if he would describe himself as a racist.
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The Complaints Unit did not find that Emily Maitlis had failed to be even-handed.
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Ms Emily Maitlis started the show by declaring that Mr Cummings had 'broken the rules'.
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In February 2021, Emily Maitlis was criticised for lacking impartiality after sharing a tweet by Piers Morgan, which condemned the government.
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Emily Maitlis is married to investment manager Mark Gwynne, who is Catholic and from Waters Upton, Shropshire.
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Emily Maitlis is a keen runner and a WellChild Celebrity Ambassador.
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Emily Maitlis presented the 2012 World Jewish Relief's annual dinner at Guildhall, London.
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In 2002, it was reported that Emily Maitlis had been stalked for more than a decade by Edward Vines, a former friend from her time at the university who would frequently appear at her place of work.
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Emily Maitlis admitted to harassing Maitlis and was sentenced to four months' imprisonment but was released because of the time he had spent in detention on remand.
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Emily Maitlis admitted two charges of breaching the restraining order by sending two letters to Maitlis, as well as emails and letters to her mother in 2015.
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In September 2019, while a prisoner at HM Prison Ranby in Nottinghamshire, he pleaded not guilty to breaching an order restraining him from contacting Emily Maitlis by writing a letter with the intention of having it sent to her.
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In 2012, Emily Maitlis received an honorary doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University.
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Emily Maitlis won Broadcast Journalist of the Year at the 2017 London Press Club Awards and the Network Presenter of the Year award at the RTS Television Journalism Awards in 2019 and 2020.
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Emily Maitlis received the German Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award in 2020.