Emily Maitlis Biography
Emily Maitlis a British-Canadian journalist, documentary-maker, and news presenter for the BBC. She is known for presenting BBC Two’s news and current affairs program Newsnight, and also covers elections for the BBC in the UK, US, and Europe.
Emily Maitlis Age
Maitlis was born on 6th September 1970, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Emily Maitlis Career
Originally, Maitlis intended to work as a producer, motivated by her passion for theater, but then went on to report for radio. She was a documentary maker in Cambodia and China before reporting on television.
She worked for the NBC network and was stationed in Hong Kong. She did spend six years in Hong Kong with TVB News and NBC Asia, at first as a business reporter producing documentaries, and then as a presenter.
IShe also reported the transition of supremacy over Hong Kong to Jon Snow for Channel 4. She later moved to Sky News in the UK as a business correspondent, and then to BBC London News after the show was launched in 2001. In 2005, Maitlis appeared as a question-master at the National Lottery: Come And Have A Go Game Show.
She became a regular host on BBC News during 2006, joining the new line-up in April and reporting with Ben Brown from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. during the week. She also hosted BBC Breakfast, and from May 2006 to July 2007 she hosted STORYFix on BBC News, a light-hearted look at the weekly news collection for up-beat pop.
Emily Maitlis BBC
In 2012, Maitlis covered the 2012 US election reporting on BBC One and BBC News Channel opposite David Dimbleby, as US President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney competed for US presidency. Throughout 2016, she started hosting a news talk show entitled This Week’s World on BBC Two, late Saturday afternoon.
Maitlis is one of the key presenters of Newsnight on BBC Two, with Kirsty Wark. During each broadcast, in front of the bed, she addresses e-mails from viewers and published in April 2019 the book Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News, detailing how television news is made. She is the host of emergency shifts on BBC News, including BBC News on Five, and regularly covers BBC News.
In November 2019, Maitlis interviewed the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, about his relationship with American sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, who died in August while awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking. The interview has been shown on BBC Newsnight on 16 November 2019. As a result of the catastrophic results of this plan, Prince Andrew was obliged by the Queen to resign.
Emily Maitlis Salary
Maitlis annual salaries range from an average of £260,000-£ 264,999.
Emily Maitlis Net Worth
Emily estimated net worth is under review.
Emily Maitlis Awards and Achievements
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.
Emily Maitlis COVID-19
She recently became the center of social media talks receiving an outpour of praise for her “powerful words” on the coronavirus pandemic as she introduced the current affairs program in which she slammed government ministers for using language around COVID-19 such as a “great leveler” and something that can be survived through “fortitude and strength of character”.
The Newsnight presenter said: “They tell us coronavirus is a great leveler. It’s not. It’s much, much harder if you’re poor. How do we stop it making social inequality even greater?” Maitlis’ statement caught the attention of thousands around the UK and many took to Twitter to praise her for what one user described as “the strongest minute of current affairs TV since Coronavirus started”.
Emily Maitlis Height and Weight
Maitlis stands tall at an average height and has an average body weigth.
Emily Maitlis Education
Maitlis was raised up in Sheffield, Yorkshire, and earned her high school education at the King Edward VII School and later joined Queens’ College, Cambridge. She speaks fluent Spanish, Italian and French, as well as some Mandarin. As of 2019, Newsreader she is the only Newsnight presenter not to have attended a private school.
Emily Maitlis Family
Maitlis was born to British Jewish parents: Professor Peter Maitlis FRS, Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield, and Marion Maitlis, a psychotherapist. paternal grandmother was a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany,
Emily Maitlis Husband
Maitlis is married to Mark Gwynne an investment manager whom she met while working in Hong Kong. The duo have two children, Milo and Max. She is a keen runner and a WellChild Celebrity Ambassador. During an interview on The Jonathan Ross Show, Maitlis revealed that she had proposed to her husband while on holiday in Mauritius in 2000.