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The Latest Breaking News from MacTaggart

Edinburgh TV Festival could leave Edinburgh

Organisers look at other UK venues amid concerns over costs and industry’s lack of working-class voices

The Guardian - UK

Munya Chawawa to give Alternative MacTaggart lecture at Edinburgh TV Festival

Comedian Tina Fey and Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker will also feature during the four-day event next month.

Evening Standard

Louis Theroux says there’s an ‘atmosphere of anxiety’ in TV industry during MacTaggart lecture

Documentary maker told crowds at the Edinburgh TV Festival that ‘playing it safe’ had ‘never worked for me’

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Louis Theroux unveils documentary about married professor’s affair with non-verbal patient

‘Tell Them You Love Me’ will focus on the trial of Anna Stubblefield, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a man diagnosed with ‘severe cognitive disabilities’

The Independent UK

How maths can help the BBC with impartial reporting

In her keynote MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in August, former BBC presenter Emily Maitlis spoke of her misgivings about the way the UK’s public broadcaster interpreted the corporation’s core value of impartiality.

The Conversation

BBC chief denies Emily Maitlis’s ‘Tory agent’ claims

Chairman Richard Sharp tells MPs that former Newsnight presenter was ‘completely wrong’

The Guardian - UK

Emily Maitlis’s former Newsnight editor praises ‘brilliant’ MacTaggart Lecture

The journalist, who left the BBC earlier this year, said the media was often guilty of ‘normalising’ populist views in the name of balance.

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Emily Maitlis to deliver MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at Edinburgh TV Festival

The broadcaster’s keynote speech later this month will explore the ‘threat to reporting the news and holding power to account across the globe’.

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