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5 unusual facts about Newsnight


Andrew Phillips, Baron Phillips of Sudbury

Phillips has also appeared on other television and radio programmes such as Any Questions? and Newsnight.

BBC Newsbrief magazine

The magazine will be tied closely with the BBC's flagship current affairs programme, Newsnight.

Martin Seligman

On July 6, 2011, he appeared on Newsnight and was interviewed by Jeremy Paxman about his ideas and his interest in the concept of well-being.

Philip J. Carroll

He told Newsnight: "Many Neo-Conservatives are people who have certain ideological beliefs about markets, about democracy, about this, that and the other. International oil companies, without exception, are very pragmatic commercial organizations. They don't have a theology."

Ron Neil

In 1980 he co-created Newsnight working alongside George Carey from News, taking over as the programme's editor in 1981 and directing its coverage of the Falklands War.


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Adam Wishart

Wishart joined the BBC's Training Scheme in 1993, and went on to work as an Assistant on Watchdog, Newsnight, Horizon, Tomorrow's World, Panorama, and Modern Times.

ADE 651

Caroline Hawley from the BBC's Newsnight programme investigated the ADE 651 in a report broadcast in January 2010, asking the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory to assess one of the "programmed substance detection cards" used in the device to detect TNT.

Alison Mau

Mau would later present late-night current affairs programming including Eyewitness and Newsnight, the latter of which she presented alongside Marcus Lush and her future husband Simon Dallow.

Auroville

In May 2008, the BBC produced a 10-minute Newsnight film about Auroville, which was aired on TV.

BBC London News

Lateef became the main presenter of the flagship programme in March 2006 when she replaced Emily Maitlis who left to join the BBC News channel and BBC Two's Newsnight.

Betsygate

People close to IDS began attributing the leaking of the document to the party's Chief Executive Mark MacGregor, as well as his close friend Robbie Gibb, a Newsnight producer.

In May 2002, investigative journalist on BBC Newsnight programme, Michael Crick, had initiated an investigation on the pay received by Mrs. Duncan Smith, and asserted that the pay was not commensurate with the duties she performed during the period from September 2001 to December 2002.

Caroline Hawley

In recent years she has reported on stories for the BBC's Newsnight programme including an investigation into the sale of fake bomb detectors such as the ADE651 and GT200 to Iraq and other countries.

EMV

Cambridge University researchers Steven Murdoch and Saar Drimer demonstrated in a February 2008 BBC Newsnight programme one example attack, to illustrate that Chip and PIN is not secure enough to justify passing the liability to prove fraud from the banks onto customers.

Eurfyl ap Gwilym

Dr ap Gwilym's public profile rose further after an interview with Jeremy Paxman on the BBC current affairs programme, Newsnight.

Iain Overton

The BBC TV programme Newsnight broadcast, shown on 2 November 2012 and reported by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism's lead journalist Angus Stickler made an allegation against an unnamed politician, who was widely identified on the internet as the former Conservative Party Treasurer Lord McAlpine.

John Githongo

In an interview with Fergal Keane for the BBC's Newsnight programme on 8 February 2006, Githongo revealed what he claims is taped evidence proving that Kiraitu Murungi attempted to impede his inquiries.

Justice?

received mainstream attention during the 1990s — including coverage on the BBC Newsnight programme — when they launched their "Squatters' Estate Agents" in squatted retail premises.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy

He plays in a rock band with Peter Barron, the former editor of Newsnight and Tim Hincks, the chief creative officer of Endemol UK.

Mark Staufer

Staufer eventually moved into television on the TVNZ network’s current affairs show Newsnight as a writer, producer and on-camera reporter with Marcus Lush and Alison Mau.

Mark Urban

In his years on Newsnight, he has reported on many of the most compelling foreign news stories in the past two decades: the Gulf War; the attempted coup d'état of 1991 in Moscow; 1993 events in Moscow; Bosnian War; Middle East peace process; the War in Kosovo; and the recent US military campaigns in War in Afghanistan and War in Iraq.

Nabila Ramdani

In the UK, Ramdani participates in flagship current affairs programmes, including the BBC's Woman's Hour, Today, You and Yours, PM, Newsnight, Dateline London, BBC Arabic's Sabaat Ayyam (Seven Days), The Sky News Press Preview, Boulton & Co, and Al Jazeera's Inside Story.

Newsnight Scotland

Newsnight Scotland came about as a result of calls for a Scottish-based version of the BBC News at Six (the so-called "Scottish Six") following the vote in favour of Scottish devolution.

Newsnight Scotland is a BBC Scotland television news programme which started on Monday 4 October 1999.

Shaun Bailey

In addition, Bailey was interviewed on the BBC's Newsnight programme in March 2011, where he was introduced as 'Ambassador for the Big Society'.

What Became of the Likely Lads

Pete Doherty claimed in an interview with Newsnight that he had no input for the video of the song, which does not feature the band but two young boys on a council estate (Thamesmead), implied to be a young Pete and Carl.


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