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SUMMARY:Elections and the Media - Emily Maitlis\, BBC Newsnight presenter
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DESCRIPTION:Join BBC Newsnight presenter and award-winning journalist\, *E
 mily Maitlis*\, for a talk on "Elections and the Media".\n\n*All are welco
 me.*\n\nSpaces are limited\, so please book your place below:\n\nhttps://w
 ww.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elections-and-the-media-tickets-77468569577\n\n*EMIL
 Y MAITLIS* is an award winning broadcaster and lead presenter on Newsnight
  – the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme 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 documentarie
 s\, most recently with Expenses: The Scandal That Changed Britain\, which 
 takes a look into the Parliamentary expenses scandal that rocked Westminst
 er and how 10 years later the impact it had on public trust is still relev
 ant to daily politics. Her BBC2 documentary\, ‘Inside Facebook: Zuckerbe
 rg’s $100 Billion Gamble’ featured an exclusive television interview w
 ith 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 Beckham\, Kofi Annan\, Hugh Gran
 t\, Michael Caine\, Juliette Binoche\, Julian Assange and Christine Lagard
 e.\n \nShe covered 18 months of the US presidential 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 t
 he Year at the RTS Television Journalism Awards 2019. She previously won t
 he London Press Club ‘Broadcast Journalist of the Year’ Award for her 
 work on Newsnight and the Wincott business award for her documentary with 
 Mark Zuckerberg (‘Inside Facebook’).\n \nEmily’s book Airhead: The I
 mperfect Art of Making News was published in April 2019 and has been optio
 ned by Working Title for a TV adaptation.\n\nShe’s also written for GQ\,
  The Sunday Times and the Spectator Magazine as well as the Guardian\, Eve
 ning Standard and the New Statesman.\n\nEmily has travelled extensively an
 d speaks basic Mandarin as well as fluent French\, Spanish and Italian. In
  her spare time enjoys running marathons in odd parts of the world\n
LOCATION:Fitzpatrick Hall\, Queens' College
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