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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Journalism In The New Age - Emily Maitlis\, BBC Newsnigh
 t presenter
DTSTART:20191128T143000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Join BBC Newsnight presenter and award-winning journalist\, *E
 mily Maitlis*\, for a *masterclass* on "Journalism in the new age".\n\n*Ev
 ent open only to students.*\n\n\nSpaces are limited\, so please book your 
 place below:\n\nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/journalism-in-the-new-age-t
 ickets-77464322875\n\n\n*EMILY MAITLIS* is an award winning broadcaster an
 d lead presenter on Newsnight – the BBC’s flagship current affairs pro
 gramme on BBC 2. She is part of the core presenting team for BBC elections
  both here and in the United States.\n\nEmily is hugely respected for the 
 integrity of her documentaries\, most recently with Expenses: The Scandal 
 That Changed Britain\, which takes a look into the Parliamentary expenses 
 scandal that rocked Westminster and how 10 years later the impact it had o
 n public trust is still relevant to daily politics. Her BBC2 documentary\,
  ‘Inside Facebook: Zuckerberg’s $100 Billion Gamble’ featured an exc
 lusive television interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. She has
  interviewed numerous figures from the world of politics\, sports and the 
 arts\, including Bill Clinton\, the Dalai Lama\, Marine Le Pen\, David Bec
 kham\, Kofi Annan\, Hugh Grant\, Michael Caine\, Juliette Binoche\, Julian
  Assange and Christine Lagarde.\n \nShe covered 18 months of the US presid
 ential primaries and campaign\, and has interviewed Donald Trump a number 
 of times as well as the last five UK Prime Ministers.\n \nEmily was named 
 as the Network Presenter of the Year at the RTS Television Journalism Awar
 ds 2019. She previously won the London Press Club ‘Broadcast Journalist 
 of the Year’ Award for her work on Newsnight and the Wincott business aw
 ard for her documentary with Mark Zuckerberg (‘Inside Facebook’).\n \n
 Emily’s book Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News was published in 
 April 2019 and has been optioned by Working Title for a TV adaptation.\n\n
 She’s also written for GQ\, The Sunday Times and the Spectator Magazine 
 as well as the Guardian\, Evening Standard and the New Statesman.\n\nEmily
  has travelled extensively and speaks basic Mandarin as well as fluent Fre
 nch\, Spanish and Italian. In her spare time enjoys running marathons in o
 dd parts of the world\n
LOCATION:Armitage Room\, Queens' College
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