British Broadcasting Legend Emily Maitlis, Who Oversaw The Notorious Prince Andrew ‘Newsnight’ Interview, To Deliver This Year’s Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart Lecture
Maitlis described the MacTaggart news as an “honor beyond belief,” a “massive privilege but also a responsibility.”
In a teaser of what’s to come, she added: “The need to hold power to account without fear or favour is more urgent than ever before. We are good at documenting censorship and intimidation of journalists around the world but we are sometimes too slow to recognise how and when it is happening in more subtle ways, closer to home. In many places the political actors, their style of communication and their relationship with the truth has changed.
Maitlis’ speech, the first in-person for three years, looks set to take a similar tone to former Channel 4 News boss Dorothy Byrne’s 2019 address, which called out mainstream politicians for lying and refusing to be held to account. She follows in the footsteps of a number of recent MacTaggart lecturers who have cleared a path for change, including last year’s Jack Thorne, who lambasted the industry for “totally and utterly failing disabled people,” David Olusoga, who decried a “lost generation” of ethnic minority talent, and Michaela Coel, who called out the way in which TV treats “misfits.”
The Alternative MacTaggart will be delivered by Rose Ayling-Ellis, the deaf actor and winner of last year’s
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