The BBC news veteran who recently left the British public broadcaster after 20 years will deliver the prestigious MacTaggart Lecture.
Maitlis’ lecture — which sees her follow in the footsteps of names such as Elisabeth Murdoch, Shane Smith, Michaela Coel and last year’s speaker, Jack Thorne — will reportedly cover the complex world of modern journalism where the threat to reporting the news and holding power to account across the globe, comes not just with intimidation and outright censorship, but in more nuanced ways with language and normalizing the extraordinary.
“The list of extraordinary people who have given this lecture before me makes this an honor beyond belief,” said Maitlis, whose list of interview partners includes presidents, prime ministers, business leaders and Hollywood stars. “It is a massive privilege — but also a responsibility. To get this right. The need to hold power to account without fear or favor is more urgent than ever before. We are good at documenting censorship and intimidation of journalists around the world.
The interview for which Maitlis will forever be associated, her bombshell exclusive with Prince Andrew for flagship current affairs show, in which he talked publicly for the first time about his links to Jeffrey Epstein and an interview that was later described as “a plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion,” is now set to be adapted for the screen with rival projects.
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