Emily Maitlis is the 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.

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, and Emma Thompson. In a groundbreaking 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.

Emily Co-Executive Produced the documentary, Andrew – The Problem Prince, which examined his decision to be interviewed and the aftermath, aired in two parts on Channel 4 in 2023.
Having departed the BBC and signed with Global, the media and entertainment group, building upon the success of the Americast podcast, The News Agents shot to the top of the podcast charts and recently won a Gold Award at the British Podcast Awards. It has instantly become the go to listen for intelligent analysis, deep diving into the day’s news with expert opinion. It has been joined by The News Agents USA.

Author of the Sunday Times bestseller, ‘Airhead: An Exploration of the Imperfect Art of Making News’, which is currently being adapted. A Very Royal Scandal explores the journey of the interview with Prince Andrew in a 3 part series for Amazon Prime.

Emily delivered the flagship address of the 2022 Edinburgh TV Festival – The James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture – as the Festival returned to an in-person event at the end of August. The lecture covered 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 normalising the extraordinary.

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

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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