Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News

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Maitlis has described feeling “untouchable in Hong Kong; nobody was hunting me down”. I wonder to what extent this was the reason she went in the first place – and stayed for so long. The irony of this riveting, enlightening and sometimes painfully honest book is that you couldn't meet less of an airhead than Emily Maitlis - a bold, fearless journalist, a splendidly probing and well-prepared interlocutor, and a warm, sharp and witty woman at the top of her game on and off camera. I'm just very disappointed there's only one chapter about me * Piers Morgan * Emily has a style that would make you enjoy her report on the end of the world. Absolutely irresistible * Jeremy Vine * The News Agents with Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall: episodes, how to listen & more". LBC . Retrieved 17 January 2023. The News Agents review – how Maitlis and Sopel will use their post-BBC freedom remains to be seen". The Guardian. 30 August 2022 . Retrieved 2 September 2022.

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If you’ve been to a music festival or a club in the past two decades, there’s a good chance you’ve heard the joyful DJing of Norman Jay, whose contributions to dance in Britain are among the most significant by anyone alive today. His memoir is full of the heart and spirit he brings to his music, but it also offers a salutary account of growing up as part of the Windrush generation in London’s Notting Hill, the violence and racism he faced, and his success. This book, to use his phrase, has its own “rare groove”. Two Souls A friend of the Duke told The Telegraph: "This latest exploitation for financial gain of a book and now a film, of what was and remains, a very difficult time for the family, is unwelcome. One of the main reasons the Duke agreed to go on Newsnight was because of the programme’s gravitas and reputation for conducting in-depth, hard-hitting interviews, sources contend. It’s no wonder Airhead was The Times’ Book of the Year. I thoroughly recommend this book whether or not you have a penchant for the world of journalism, for the tales alone make for a fascinating read. With the plethora of famous figures, from the Dalai Lama to David Attenborough, and Bill Clinton to Russell Brand, there’s someone for everyone and a story for all. You cannot fault her easy, though-provoking writing, and her style makes for such compelling reading, it may even spark a chord of inspiration for you too. In a BBC Radio 5 Live interview, Maitlis likened the long-term harassment to having a chronic illness. [51] Awards [ edit ]Not an autobiography but a serious book about journalism, disguised in anecdotal chapters about her encounters with the great and the good and the rather awful . . . leads the reader towards a deeper understanding of an essential part of our culture: current affairs . . . this is a book that engages at every level * Daily Mail * Scoop is a Netflix production, originally announced last autumn, when Hugh Grant was linked to the role of Prince Andrew – to the apparent surprise of his representatives. McAlister’s book has been adapted by Peter Moffat, whose previous credits include the Bryan Cranston series Your Honor and the 2004 film Hawking, which won acclaim for star Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Hawking. I’m almost certain I wouldn’t have been a journalist if I hadn’t hit the ground at that moment and [amid] that extra­ordinary febrile atmosphere of tension and excite­ment and heat, all coming at the same time,” she says, over a flat white in a bar in London’s Leicester Square. This is not to suggest that there is not a great deal of thought and planning that goes into each story and/or interview - and it is evident why Maitlis is as successful and respected a journalist as she is.

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Hugely enjoyable, funny and insightful. Airhead is not a biography nor a treatise on television journalism but more, as Emily Maitlis says herself, it's a look at how things happen in her job: how things get planned, go right and help make the headlines - and as equally, how things are unplanned, go wrong and help make the headlines. Maitlis, Emily (7 May 2006). "My week". The Observer. London. Archived from the original on 27 June 2006 . Retrieved 27 April 2007. She was cool, efficient and enthusiastic,” he tells Post Magazine. “Judged by any number of fixers I’ve had in my 40-odd years working on the road, she was a breed apart. She is extremely bright, personable and very well-informed and, to be honest, I was surprised that someone as good as her was available and that she didn’t have a job at one of the big banks.” Why has our national broadcaster lost its nerve? The government’s threat to remove the licence fee, a sword of Damocles now constantly hanging over its head, is the most obvious answer. Another might be the installation of Richard Sharp, a pro-Brexit Tory donor, as chair. Maitlis, however, took aim at what she called an “active Conservative party agent” on the BBC board – a reference to Robbie Gibb, the smoothest of smooth operators, who has moved seamlessly between politics and journalism all his life. (Having initially worked for the then Conservative shadow minister Francis Maude, Gibb moved to the BBC, then became Theresa May’s head of communications, before returning controversially to the BBC, where he wields significant influence over journalistic output.)Things don’t always go to plan, as is the nature of a job when you work for the nation’s most-watched broadcasting outlet, but Maitlis proves it’s how it’s handled that matters, even when she’s preparing for a guest appearance alongside Alan Partridge.

Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News by Emily Maitlis

One of the largest festivals of its kind in the country, the annual Cambridge Festival, which features over 360 mostly free events, runs from Friday 17 th March until Sunday 2 nd April. A deliciously funny behind-the-scenes take on broadcasting and her encounters with politicians and celebrities * i * Having finished Emily Maitlis’ autobiography Airhead for a second time, I felt compelled to pen my thoughts into a review. Veteran Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow says he feels “humbled” to have been referred to as Maitlis’ mentor.Murray, Douglas (27 September 2019). "The BBC can no longer claim to be impartial". The Daily Telegraph. Maitlis, who was born in Canada and grew up in a Jewish family in Sheffield, in the north of England, exhibits the analytical mind of her psychotherapist mother, Marion, and the forensic skills of her father, Peter, a retired professor of chemistry who escaped the Nazis as a child.