Kirsty Wark (65, Wellington School, Ayr and Edinburgh University) is celebrated in The Sunday Times magazine, for her work on Newsnight.
Interviewer Decca Aitkenhead asserts "Newsnight is once again on fire, reignited by a new all-female team led by Emily Maitlis and editor Esme Wren." This runs counter to reports that, with a new regular start time of 10.45, audiences are averaging 300k a night.
Kirsty has been with Newsnight for 27 years, and says of the current presentation team "None of us does grandstanding, and that’s a really, really important thing. None of us feels that we’re more important than the team around us and, indeed, the audience.”
Decca says, unlike Jeremy Paxman ? “I mean, I think Jeremy is a brilliant journalist. But the thing is, that time has passed. We’re in a different era now. I think it’s more about sort of being a quiet assassin, rather than flailing around like a musketeer.” Asked about Emily Maitlis's opening monologue about Dominic Cummings’s trip to Barnard Castle, judged insufficiently impartial by the BBC, she says “All I will say is we’re not a news programme. We can be a bit pokey and diggy.”
Kirsty has more recently been a bit pokey and diggy about the trial of Alex Salmond, found not guilty on sexual assault charges, in a programme made by her family production company, Two Rivers Media. The interview was conducted pre-transmission.
This scene from Alex Salmond documentary with Kirsty Wark, Sarah Smith and Dani Garavelli really is shocking. BBC should be sued. pic.twitter.com/HmanmfL4mE
— Phantom Power (@PhantomPower14) August 17, 2020
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