Emily Maitlis (born 6 September 1970) is a Canadian-born British journalist and former newsreader for the BBC who was the lead anchor of the BBC Two news and current affairs programme Newsnight from 2018 until the end of 2021. Maitlis has since been a presenter of the daily podcast The News Agents on LBC Radio.
In November 2019, Maitlis carried out an hour-long interview with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (then Prince Andrew) for the BBC, in which she probed the then-prince's relationship with American convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The interview was awarded as the Interview of the Year and the Scoop of the Year, and Maitlis won the Network Presenter of the Year award at the RTS Television Journalism Awards in 2020.
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