Emily Maitlis Net Worth

She clearly has a desirable portion of her legally gained income from her career as a writer, judging by her lifestyle. The typical net worth of Emily is estimated to be $8 million.

Emily Maitlis Salary

Emily Maitlis earns an annual salary of £325,000 annually and a monthly salary of £27,084. Emily Maitlis is a British journalist, documentary filmmaker, and BBC newsreader. She is the host of BBC Two’s Newsnight, a news and current affairs program, and she also covers elections for the BBC in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Europe.

Who is Emily Maitlis

Emily Maitlis is a British journalist, documentary filmmaker, and BBC newsreader who was born on September 6, 1970. She is the host of BBC Two’s Newsnight, a news and current affairs program, and she also covers elections for the BBC in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Europe.

Emily Maitlis Age

As of 2023, Emily Maitlis is 52 years old. She was born on 6 September 1970 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Emily Maitlis Family

Maitlis was born to British Jewish parents in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; her paternal grandmother was a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany. Professor Peter Maitlis FRS, Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield, and Marion Maitlis, a psychotherapist, raised her in Sheffield, Yorkshire.

Emily Maitlis Husband

Maitlis met Catholic investment manager Mark Gwynne while working in Hong Kong, and they are now married. While on vacation in Mauritius in 2000, she asked her husband to marry her. Milo and Max are their two boys and they reside in London.

Emily Maitlis Education Background

She attended King Edward VII School, a public comprehensive school in Sheffield, and then went on to Queens College, Cambridge, to study English. She was the only Newsnight presenter who had not attended a private school as of 2019.

Emily Maitlis Career Background

Maitlis had intended to work as a director because of her passion for drama, but she instead chose to engage in radio broadcasting. She worked as a documentary filmmaker in Cambodia and China prior to working in news. She was stationed in Hong Kong and worked for the NBC network.

She worked for TVB News and NBC Asia in Hong Kong for six years, first as a business reporter developing documentaries and later as a presenter in Hong Kong covering the tiger economies’ collapse in 1997. For Channel 4, she also covered the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong with Jon Snow. She went on to work as a business correspondent for Sky News in the United Kingdom, and subsequently for BBC London News when it was established in 2001.

Maitlis was featured on the game program The National Lottery: Come And Have A Go in 2005 as the question master. Between 2006 and 2016, she worked as a frequent presenter on BBC News Channel alongside Ben Brown and Jon Sopel. She also hosted BBC Breakfast and STORYFix on BBC News from May 2006 to July 2007, a lighthearted look at the week’s news set to upbeat music.

Maitlis was appointed as an unpaid contributing editor to The Spectator magazine in July 2007. Her immediate manager, Peter Horrocks, the head of BBC Television News, had given his approval, but his higher, Helen Boaden, the BBC News director, overruled him.

When incumbent US President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were vying for the president of the United States in 2012, Maitlis co-hosted the BBC One and BBC News Channel election coverage with David Dimbleby. She hosted a news discussion show called This Week’s World on BBC Two late on Saturday afternoons in 2016.

Along with Kirsty Wark and Emma Barnett, Maitlis is one of the primary presenters of BBC Two’s Newsnight. She started as a relief presenter in 2006 and rose through the ranks to become the show’s principal anchor following Evan Davis’ departure in 2018. She answers questions from viewers after each episode and authored Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News in April 2019, outlining how television news is made.

Maitlis spoke with Prince Andrew, Duke of York, in November 2019 about his contact with American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in August while awaiting a sex-trafficking prosecution. On November 16, 2019, the interview was shown on the BBC’s Newsnight program. Prince Andrew later resigned from his royal duties, owing in part to the terrible aftermath of his performance during this interview.

Maitlis was among the highest-paid BBC news and current affairs employees in 2019, with a salary ranging from £260,000 to £264,999. Defund the BBC, a 2020 campaign organization, displayed billboards in July with the headline “Are you still paying?” exposing Maitlis’ and Gary Lineker’s salaries.

Her interview with Prince Andrew was named Interview of the Year and Scoop of the Year at the 2020 RTS Television Journalism Awards in February 2020.

Maitlis began hosting the BBC podcast Americast in 2020, alongside Jon Sopel, the BBC’s North America Editor, and Anthony Zurcher, the BBC’s Chief North America Reporter. The podcasts were created with the 2020 election in mind, and they include commentary as well as a variety of interviews from across the political spectrum.

Americast garnered great reviews and charted highly on iTunes, becoming the UK’s most listened-to podcast of any genre at one point. The podcast was supposed to terminate after the election, but due to its popularity, it was extended.

Awards

Maitlis was awarded an honorary doctorate by Sheffield Hallam University in 2012. In 2017, she was named Broadcast Journalist of the Year at the London Press Club Awards, and in 2019 and 2020, she was named Network Presenter of the Year at the RTS Television Journalism Awards. In 2020, she was honored with the German Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award.