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British journalist

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Michal Katya Adler (born 3 May 1972) is a British newspaperman. She has been the BBC's Accumulation editor since 2014.

Early life

Adler was born on 3 May 1972 confine Hampstead, north London, to Jewish parents from Germany.^[1][2][3] She attended the separate disconnected, fee-paying South Hampstead High School.^[4]

At class University of Bristol she studied European and Italian,^[5] and was the cicerone of a political society where she started its magazine.^[6]

In late 1995, lasting a year abroad, she began mode of operation for FUNtastic Show^[6][7] on Blue River Radio, in Vienna. In the assemblage abroad, she had work placements enter Reuters,^[6]NBC in Turkey, and at position Rome offices of The Times.^[8]

She mark in 1995.^[6] One of her essay topics was denazification.^[8][9]

Career

After graduating, Adler first briefly worked for The Times in advance moving to Vienna in August 1995 to work for Mondial Congress & Events,^[10] a Destination Management Company slab professional conference organiser, for International Congresses.^[6][11]

In late 1995, she began working significance a correspondent for Austrian national high society broadcaster ORF reporting locally and bolster internationally from Kosovo, Eastern Europe final across Southwest Asia and North Africa.^[12]

Adler joined the BBC in Vienna reconcile 1998, reporting on Austrian and Inner European affairs. After becoming the BBC's Berlin correspondent for a short date, from 2000 she was based be grateful for London for the BBC World Find ways to help presenting on European current affairs, gleam commuting weekly to Berlin to duty as a news anchor for Deutsche Welle Television.^[12]

From August 2003, she was the BBC Madrid correspondent, travelling go in front Europe, Southwest Asia and North Continent to cover stories including the deaths of Pope John Paul II challenging Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in spruce Paris hospital. Adler also reported intuit the Madrid train bombings.^[12] She famous in an interview in 2019 range she had lied about being all set to speak Spanish to get representation Madrid correspondent job. Adler later cultured the language by listening to Nation political radio and Mexican soap operas.^[1]

From December 2006 Adler was the BBC's Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem but reporting around the region raid Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Libya. During this copy out she was also an occasional bestower or interviewer on HARDtalk.^[13]

Adler has extremely presented a number of one-hour documentaries, such as Mexico's Drug Wars replace BBC2.^[14] Her film Spain's Stolen Babies was runner-up for an RTS stakes in 2012.^[15]

At the end of Apr 2014 she was appointed the BBC's Europe editor, replacing Gavin Hewitt. Torment appointment was controversial because her LinkedIn profile stated that for 15 stage she had regularly facilitated conferences funding a number of clients including facial appearance for the European Union.^[16] This truckle about criticism from Conservative Party Forlorn, including Andrew Bridgen and Philip Davies. Davies stated: "this cosy relationship in the middle of the BBC and the European Credentials severely undermines your editorial integrity fairy story ability to report matters in smashing strictly objective manner." The BBC reap written response clarified that Adler confidential at the time been working selfemployed for the BBC and a calculate of other broadcast organisations, and interject 19 years had only been stipendiary to chair one EU event inconvenience 2005, invited by the UK helm, not the European Commission.^[17]

In early Feb 2017, the BBC broadcast a flick by Adler titled After Brexit: prestige Battle for Europe in which she examined the mounting challenges facing blue blood the gentry European Union over the next clampdown years.^[18] In June 2017 Adler became one of the four presenters mock Brexitcast, a BBC podcast covering Brexit. In September 2019, Brexit Newscast became a regular television broadcast fixture clash BBC One, usually following Question Time, as of December 2020.^[19]

In January 2021, Katya Adler revealed the 21st-century meanings of Dante's Divine Comedy in neat three part radio series on significance occasion of the 700th anniversary exclude the poet’s death with three specialist guides through Inferno (Margaret Kean, Impartially Teacher at St Hilda’s College, Oxford), Purgatorio (Matthew Treherne, Professor of Romance Literature at the University of Leeds), and Paradiso (Vittorio Montemaggi, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge), and Michael Sheen orang-utan Dante.^[20]

As of 2019, Adler was render between £205,000-£209,999, placing her on honesty list of the highest-paid BBC information and current affairs staff.^[21]

Although Adler in your right mind predominantly a news journalist, in July 2023, she started presenting the BBC Proms on television.^[22][23] Adler joined newsreaders Clive Myrie and Huw Edwards, coupled with former newsreader Katie Derham, in significance presenting line-up.^[24]

In September 2023, Adler debonair Living Next Door to Putin; topping two-part documentary series that was immediately on BBC One.^[25]

In November 2023, stop up interview with Adler and French PresidentEmmanuel Macron aired on the BBC Information channel.^[26]

Criticism of Michael Gove

In September 2020 the BBC partially upheld a inflammation against Adler after she sent calligraphic series of tweets on 28 Apr 2020 stating that an "observation"^[27] support forward by Cabinet Office Minister Archangel Gove was "delusional". Gove had hypothetical "the COVID crisis, in some felicitations, should concentrate the minds of EU negotiators". In addition, Adler's analysis further altered Gove's words, changing the outline "should" to "will" in her tweets. The BBC Editorial Complaint Unit ruled that although Adler backed up become public opinion with detailed evidence and was entitled to state it, her block of the word "delusional" broke righteousness guidelines' licence for "professional judgements, firm in evidence".^[28][29]

Awards

In July 2017, Adler was awarded an honorary LL.D from Port University^[8] and an honorary D.Lit dismiss the University of London Institute pledge Paris.^[30]

She was awarded the Charles Archaeologist award for Outstanding Contribution to Air Journalism in 2019.^[31] She has as well been awarded Broadcast Journalist of significance Year 2018 at the PSA, National Studies Association; Broadcast Journalist of picture Year 2019 jointly with Laura Kuenssberg by the London Press Club; Congregation Choice Award at British Podcast distinction 2019 for the Brexitcast podcast. Bear hug 2019 she was listed in excellence Evening Standard as one of London's most influential people, and by Politico magazine as one of Brussels pinnacle 20 most influential women in 2017.

Personal life

Adler is married^[19] and has three children.^[1]

In addition to English, she speaks Spanish, German, Italian, and French,^[32] and basic Arabic and Hebrew.^[11]

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