# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emily-maitlis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:35:43.784Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emily-maitlis"
name: "Emily Maitlis"
slug: "emily-maitlis"
description: "Emily Maitlis is a 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."
tagline: "British journalist, regularly appearing on BBC broadcasts"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Emily_Maitlis_Reporting_from_Leadership_Debate_Bristol_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1970-09-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.92
  momentum:             3.386454183266931
  historical:           8.281690666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/maitlis"
    handle:    "maitlis"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/officiallymaitlis/"
    handle:    "officiallymaitlis"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1560462/"
    handle:    "nm1560462"
sources:
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    title: "Emily Maitlis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "اميلى مايتليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Maitlis"
    title: "Emily Maitlis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Maitlis"
    title: "Emily Maitlis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Maitlis"
    title: "Emily Maitlis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Maitlis"
    title: "Emily Maitlis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Maitlis"
    title: "Emily Maitlis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Maitlis"
    title: "Emily Maitlis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5372273"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/60342"
    title: "Emily Maitlis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump