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Newsnight host Emily Maitlis and the BBC\u2019s former North America editor Jon Sopel have both announced that they will be leaving the corporation to join Global.<\/p>\n
The pair will front a major new podcast together for Global Player and will also host a new show on LBC, with both journalists confirming the news on Twitter.<\/p>\n
It follows a similar path to that of Andrew Marr, who announced he was leaving the BBC to join Global in November 2021.<\/p>\n
More to follow\u2026<\/em><\/p> \u00a0<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Patrick Cremona Published: Tuesday, 22 February 2022 at 12:00 am Newsnight host Emily Maitlis and the BBC\u2019s former North America editor Jon Sopel have both announced that they will be leaving the corporation to join Global. The pair will front a major new podcast together for Global Player and will also host a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":11445,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/02\/newsnight-host-emily-maitlis-to-leave-the-bbc-along-with-jon-sopel.jpg",1200,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/02\/newsnight-host-emily-maitlis-to-leave-the-bbc-along-with-jon-sopel-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/02\/newsnight-host-emily-maitlis-to-leave-the-bbc-along-with-jon-sopel-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/02\/newsnight-host-emily-maitlis-to-leave-the-bbc-along-with-jon-sopel-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/02\/newsnight-host-emily-maitlis-to-leave-the-bbc-along-with-jon-sopel-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/02\/newsnight-host-emily-maitlis-to-leave-the-bbc-along-with-jon-sopel.jpg",1200,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/02\/newsnight-host-emily-maitlis-to-leave-the-bbc-along-with-jon-sopel.jpg",1200,800,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Patrick Cremona Published: Tuesday, 22 February 2022 at 12:00 am Newsnight host Emily Maitlis and the BBC\u2019s former North America editor Jon Sopel have both announced that they will be leaving the corporation to join Global. The pair will front a major new podcast together for Global Player and will also host a new…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/11444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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