Maitlis paints a vivid picture of the intensity and unpredictability that come with her assignments, which punctures the perceived glamour of life reporting the news . . . Her writing is excellent: precise, economical and accessible * Guardian * Journalist and broadcaster Emily Maitlis presents the Gold Award winning daily podcast, The News Agents with Global Media with Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall and The News Agents USA with Jon Sopel. She has covered elections in the US and UK for the BBC, fronted Newsnight, and was recognised by GQ Magazine as one of the most influential people in Britain. It's a brilliant, often funny, behind-the-scenes account of her working life, written by one of Britain's best television broadcasters. It proves she's far from an airhead! * John Craven *

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a b Waterson, Jim (24 August 2022). "Emily Maitlis says 'active Tory party agent' shaping BBC news output". The Guardian.If you’ve been to a music festival or a club in the past two decades, there’s a good chance you’ve heard the joyful DJing of Norman Jay, whose contributions to dance in Britain are among the most significant by anyone alive today. His memoir is full of the heart and spirit he brings to his music, but it also offers a salutary account of growing up as part of the Windrush generation in London’s Notting Hill, the violence and racism he faced, and his success. This book, to use his phrase, has its own “rare groove”. Two Souls The broadcasting life is arguably more chaotic than the print world, and less freeing, as Maitlis even states in her introduction: “Unlike print there is no room for annotation or commentary as you go along. What appears on the screen is what people see. Everything else is just interpretation”. But that’s what makes it exciting. Giving us the inside scoop on her interviews with everyone from Emma Thompson to Russell Brand, and Donald Trump to Tony Blair, as well as covering news stories such as President Clinton's affairs, Boris Johnson's race to PM, Grenfell, #MeToo, and that interview with Prince Andrew. This is not to suggest that there is not a great deal of thought and planning that goes into each story and/or interview - and it is evident why Maitlis is as successful and respected a journalist as she is.

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The first female lead presenter of BBC current affairs show Newsnight has come a long way from her days as ‘a terrible journalist’ Emily Maitlis is a particular hero of mine . . . I know I'm in for a treat with Airhead * Gaby Huddart, Editor-in-chief, Good Housekeeping * The book was serialised in a national newspaper and McAlister has done myriad interviews in which she details every meeting, conversation and negotiation that preceded the interview. In the run-up to an interview with the former US president Bill Clinton, she agonises over whether to quiz him about Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern with whom he had an affair, in light of a recently published Vanity Fair piece in which Lewinsky described her treatment at the hands of future employers, feminists and the press. The meeting is due to take place in rural India where Clinton is campaigning about HIV and – of all things – women’s rights, but, on Maitlis’s arrival, a presidential aide informs her that Clinton has had a “funny turn”. Suddenly her main concern is not the Lewinsky question but whether he will drop dead with the cameras rolling. “One thing I learnt in that split second: the belief that you have any control is mythical,” she reflects. “Like those children’s books where you choose your own adventure but ultimately end up at the same place whatever you do.” With a “raging interest and not enough to occupy me” she signed up to a postgraduate degree at the University of Hong Kong “on, bizarrely, the bowdlerisation of Shakespeare”. At the same time, she was gripped by this portentous period in the region’s history and looking for an opportunity “to get into understanding the politics better”.Award-winning broadcast journalist and BBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis has entralled students, staff, and alumni during a virtual author talk as part of Kingston University's Big Read initiative. In a Newsnight discussion concerning Brexit on 15 July 2019 [27] it was alleged by a viewer that Maitlis had been "sneering and bullying" towards columnist Rod Liddle. Maitlis had accused Liddle of writing columns containing "consistent casual racism week after week", asking Liddle if he would describe himself as a racist. The BBC Executive Complaints Unit upheld the complaint against her, agreeing that she had been "persistent and personal" in her criticism of Liddle, thus "leaving her open to the charge [sic] that she had failed to be even-handed" in the discussion between Brexit-supporting Liddle and his anti-Brexit opponent Tom Baldwin. The Complaints Unit did not find that Maitlis had in fact failed to be even-handed. Douglas Murray described the segment as "more of a drive-by shooting than an interview". [28] [29] [30] Maitlis, who was born in Canada and grew up in a Jewish family in Sheffield, in the north of England, exhibits the analytical mind of her psychotherapist mother, Marion, and the forensic skills of her father, Peter, a retired professor of chemistry who escaped the Nazis as a child. Engaging, concise stories, covering encounters with the Dali Lama, Syrian migrants to Simon Cowell - ‘he’s shorter in real life’ ... (We’ve all seen those dodgy heeled shoes he wears Emily)

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a b c d e f g h Hinsliff, Gaby (21 April 2019). "Emily Maitlis: 'I always think, Oh my God, I'm exhausted, I want vodka and bed' ". The Observer. London . Retrieved 22 April 2019. She lifts the veil on the inner workings of the BBC, as she reflects on her long career as a journalist * Radio Times * She recounts the interviews of her career, from the great, the good and the questionable, offering insights into the questions that illuminated their characters and the ones they dodged. A chapter on being the target of a stalker reveals her more vulnerable side in this compelling book * Observer *

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Quizzed by Maitlis, the Duke failed to express any regret over his friendship with Epstein, or empathy for his victims. Maitlis was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada to British Jewish parents; [2] her paternal grandmother was a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany. [2] She is the daughter of Professor Peter Maitlis FRS, Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield, and Marion Maitlis, a psychotherapist. [3] [4] [5] Mansoor, Sanya. " 'Only One of Us Is Telling the Truth.' The Biggest Moments From Prince Andrew Accuser Virginia Giuffre's BBC Interview". Time. New York . Retrieved 13 December 2019. Behind-the-scenes accounts of her famous encounters, including those with Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and the Dalai Lama, among many others * Daily Mail Books of the Year *

She is a superb writer, used to throwing together pacy, engaging scripts at a second's notice. Each chapter is dedicated to one of her interviews - it is a sort of greatest-hits compilation * The Sunday Times * Maitlis and the now infamous eye-roll, during an interview with British MPs Nadhim Zahawi (centre) and Barry Gardiner, in March.