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British journalist

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Michal Katya Adler (born 3 Could ) is a British newsman. She has been the BBC's Europe editor since

Early life

Adler was born on 3 Could in Hampstead, north London, finish off Jewish parents from Germany.^[1][2][3] She attended the independent, fee-paying Southward Hampstead High School.^[4]

At the Home of Bristol she studied European and Italian,^[5] and was nobleness president of a political association where she started its magazine.^[6]

In late , during a best abroad, she began working sue for FUNtastic Show^[6][7] on Blue River Radio, in Vienna. In high-mindedness year abroad, she had outmoded placements with Reuters,^[6]NBC in Poultry, and at the Rome support of The Times.^[8]

She graduated extract ^[6] One of her lecture topics was denazification.^[8][9]

Career

After graduating, Adler initially briefly worked for The Times before moving to Vienna in August to work on Mondial Congress & Events,^[10] fastidious Destination Management Company and white-collar conference organiser, for International Congresses.^[6][11]

In late , she began necessary as a correspondent for European national public broadcaster ORF action locally and then internationally stranger Kosovo, Eastern Europe and deal Southwest Asia and North Africa.^[12]

Adler joined the BBC in Vienna in , reporting on European and Central European affairs. Associate becoming the BBC's Berlin newspaperwoman for a short period, strip she was based in Writer for the BBC World Bragging presenting on European current connections, and commuting weekly to Songster to work as a data anchor for Deutsche Welle Television.^[12]

From August , she was leadership BBC Madrid correspondent, travelling haunt Europe, Southwest Asia and Northmost Africa to cover stories together with the deaths of Pope Lavatory Paul II and Palestinian commander Yasser Arafat in a Town hospital. Adler also reported stiffen the Madrid train bombings.^[12] She admitted in an interview deck that she had lied get on with being able to speak Romance to get the Madrid newscaster job. Adler later learned character language by listening to Land political radio and Mexican bubbles operas.^[1]

From December Adler was rendering BBC's Middle East correspondent, household in Jerusalem but reporting escort the region from Gaza, high-mindedness West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, River and Libya. During this span she was also an incidental presenter or interviewer on HARDtalk.^[13]

Adler has also presented a numeral of one-hour documentaries, such monkey Mexico's Drug Wars for BBC2.^[14] Her film Spain's Stolen Babies was runner-up for an RTS award in ^[15]

At the proposal of April she was equipped the BBC's Europe editor, offer Gavin Hewitt. Her appointment was controversial because her LinkedIn silhouette stated that for 15 lifetime she had regularly facilitated conferences for a number of trade including one for the Denizen Union.^[16] This brought about analysis from Conservative Party MPs, together with Andrew Bridgen and Philip Davies. Davies stated: "this cosy satisfaction between the BBC and primacy European Commission severely undermines your editorial integrity and ability count up report matters in a harshly objective manner." The BBC creepy-crawly written response clarified that Adler had at the time antiquated working freelance for the BBC and a number of keep inside broadcast organisations, and in 19 years had only been receive to chair one EU sheet in , invited by rendering UK presidency, not the Continent Commission.^[17]

In early February , greatness BBC broadcast a documentary induce Adler titled After Brexit: justness Battle for Europe in which she examined the mounting challenges facing the European Union monitor the next few years.^[18] Grind June Adler became one classic the four presenters of Brexitcast, a BBC podcast covering Brexit. In September , Brexit Newscast became a regular television originate fixture on BBC One, generally following Question Time, as strain December ^[19]

In January , Katya Adler revealed the 21st-century meanings of Dante's Divine Comedy stop in midsentence a three part radio followers on the occasion of representation th anniversary of the poet’s death with three expert guides through Inferno (Margaret Kean, Unequivocally Teacher at St Hilda’s Institution, Oxford), Purgatorio (Matthew Treherne, University lecturer of Italian Literature at loftiness University of Leeds), and Paradiso (Vittorio Montemaggi, St Edmund’s Institute, Cambridge), and Michael Sheen pass for Dante.^[20]

As of , Adler was paid between £,£,, placing prepare on the list of loftiness highest-paid BBC news and give to affairs staff.^[21]

Although Adler is chiefly a news journalist, in July , she started presenting goodness BBC Proms on television.^[22][23] Adler joined newsreaders Clive Myrie increase in intensity Huw Edwards, plus former master of ceremonies Katie Derham, in the offering line-up.^[24]

In September , Adler throb Living Next Door to Putin; a two-part documentary series renounce was aired on BBC One.^[25]

In November , an interview connote Adler and French PresidentEmmanuel Macron aired on the BBC Rumour channel.^[26]

Criticism of Michael Gove

In Sep the BBC partially upheld out complaint against Adler after she sent a series of tweets on 28 April stating walk an "observation"^[27] put forward prep between Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove was "delusional". Gove had hypothetical "the COVID crisis, in timeconsuming respects, should concentrate the hesitant of EU negotiators". In desirable, Adler's analysis also altered Gove's words, changing the term "should" to "will" in her tweets. The BBC Editorial Complaint Part ruled that although Adler hardbound up her opinion with total evidence and was entitled gap state it, her use pencil in the word "delusional" broke honourableness guidelines' licence for "professional judgements, rooted in evidence".^[28][29]

Awards

In July , Adler was awarded an discretionary LL.D from Bristol University^[8] dominant an honorary from the Establishment of London Institute in Paris.^[30]

She was awarded the Charles Archaeologist award for Outstanding Contribution prove Broadcast Journalism in ^[31] She has also been awarded Arrival Journalist of the Year advocate the PSA, Political Studies Association; Broadcast Journalist of the Generation jointly with Laura Kuenssberg stop the London Press Club; Assemblage Choice Award at British Podcast awards for the Brexitcast podcast. In she was listed essential the Evening Standard as lag of London's most influential society, and by Politico magazine brand one of Brussels top 20 most influential women in

Personal life

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

In addition to Spin, she speaks Spanish, German, Romance, and French,^[32] and basic Semitic and Hebrew.^[11]

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