Emily Maitlis

Literary Agent: Eugenie Furniss

Award-winning journalist and broadcaster Emily Maitlis was recognised by GQ Magazine as one of the most influential people in Britain. Presenter of the Gold Award winning daily podcast, The News Agents with Global Media where she is joined by Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall and The News Agents USA with Jon Sopel. Having covered elections in the US and UK for the BBC, she fronted Newsnight, becoming a stalwart of the broadcaster’s news output and a trusted voice with the viewing public.

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-Exec Produced the documentary, Andrew – The Problem Prince, which examined his decision to be interviewed and the aftermath, aired in 2 parts on Ch4 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 days News with expert opinion. It’s been joined recently by The News Agents USA.

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 normalizing the extraordinary.

Emily is also author of the Sunday Times bestseller, Airhead: An Exploration of the Imperfect Art of Making News (Penguin, 2019), which is currently being adapted. She has also written for The Sunday Times and the Spectator as well as the Guardian, the Evening Standard and the New Statesman.