Award-winning journalist and broadcaster Emily Maitlis was recognised by GQ Magazine as one of the most influential people in Britain. She presents the Gold Award winning daily podcast, The News Agents with Global Media and the weekly The News Agents USA. In 2025, they hit the road with The News... Read more
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Award-winning journalist and broadcaster Emily Maitlis was recognised by GQ Magazine as one of the most influential people in Britain. She presents the Gold Award winning daily podcast, The News Agents with Global Media and the weekly The News Agents USA. In 2025, they hit the road with The News Agents Live, kicking off at The Royal Albert Hall, then touring to Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh. Emily fronted the 2024 Channel 4 General Election special which was widely acknowledged as the most enjoyable and critically acclaimed coverage. She also anchored Ch4’s US election coverage from Washington, their first in 32 years.
Having anchored the BBC’s flagship Newsnight for 16 years and in the vanguard of British podcasting with Americast, she was a stalwart of the broadcaster’s news output and a trusted voice with the viewing public. In 2024, Emily Executive Produced the Amazon Prime series ‘A Very Royal Scandal’, starring Ruth Wilson and Michael Sheen. The series is a retelling of Emily’s professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her groundbreaking interview with Prince Andrew in 2019 as the royal talked publicly for the first time about his links to Jeffrey Epstein. Emily also Co-Exec Produced the documentary, Andrew – The Problem Prince, which examined his decision to be interviewed and the aftermath, which aired in 2 parts on Ch4 in 2023.
Winner of RTS Television Journalism Awards – Network Presenter of the Year 2019, Interview of the year 2020, Network Presenter of the year 2020, Scoop of the Year 2020, British Journalism Awards – Interview of the Year 2020 and Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award 2020, Women in Film and TV, News and Factual Award 2021. The Spotlight Award, and 2 Golds at the British Podcast Awards for Best News & Current Affairs Podcast.
She has also interviewed Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, as well as six UK Prime Ministers among numerous other political leaders. As part of the 2024 London Literature Festival Emily interviewed Yulia Navalnaya. In the world of culture and international affairs she has sat down with subjects including Mark Zuckerberg, Usain Bolt, Sheryl Sandberg, Marine le Pen, and Emma Thompson.
Having departed the BBC in 2022 and signed with Global Media, The News Agents shot to the top of the podcast charts and won a Gold Award at the British Podcast Awards, the Best News & Current Affairs Podcast category as well as winning the Spotlight Award. It is the go to listen for intelligent analysis, deep diving into the day’s news with expert opinion. It has since been joined by The News Agents USA.
Author of the Sunday Times bestseller, ‘Airhead: An Exploration of the Imperfect Art of Making News’. She has written for The Sunday Times and The Spectator as well as The Guardian, The iPaper, The Evening Standard and The New Statesman. She delivered the flagship address at the Edinburgh TV Festival – The James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture. Covering the complex world of modern journalism exploring the threat to reporting the news and holding power to account across the globe, how it comes not just with intimidation and outright censorship, but in more nuanced ways with language and normalizing the extraordinary.
Celebrated for her unique and inimitable style, GQ Magazine said –“Don’t confuse her with Andrew Neil. He grills; she incinerates”.
She lives with her two sons, one husband and an extraordinarily entitled whippet, Moody.
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