Last updated May 2006
Category: News
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Emily Maitlis presents both Newsnight, the BBC's flagship current affairs show
on BBC TWO, and BBC News 24, the UK's leading news channel.
Emily joined the BBC four years ago from Sky to become the face of BBC London's
nightly news programme.
During her time there she covered the 2005 General Election,
securing interviews with all the main party leaders, anchored the London mayoral
election coverage, presented the 2006 Budget alongside David Dimbleby and co-presented the Local Elections 2006 special programme on 4 May.
She also secured the first admission from Tony Blair that he had backed the
wrong horse to lead London.
At Sky News she covered major breaking international stories including the United States
and Israeli elections, the Concorde crash, the Afghan hostage crisis and Rover's
selling off of BMW.
On the domestic front she covered Peter Mandelson resignations as well as
Conservative Party leadership contests.
Emily began her career in television in the Far East, working in China, Hong
Kong, the Philippines and Cambodia on half-hour documentary programmes.
Subjects
she examined included the death penalty in China, the growing exodus of
Philippine women to become economic migrants, the slow re-birth of Cambodia
after the Khmer Rouge and the transition of power to China in Hong
Kong.
Emily covered the Hong Kong handover itself, working with Jon Snow and Channel 4.
She went
on to become a business correspondent with NBC covering the collapse of the
tiger economies in 1997.
She has made documentaries for BBC Radio 1 from Hong Kong on the music and club
scene, aired the week of the handover, has presented BBC Breakfast and written
for the Spectator magazine.
She speaks French, Spanish, Italian and studied Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan.
She was nominated in March for a Royal Television Society award.
