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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.

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

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

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