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's Europe editor since 2014.

Early life

Adler was born on 3 May 1972 in

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, north London, to German parents. She attended the independent, fee-paying

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. She studied German and Italian at the

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. During her course, in her year abroad, she undertook a number of work placements including at Blue Danube Radio,

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in Turkey, and at the Rome offices of ''

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''. While at university, Adler was the president of the political society and started its magazine. She graduated in 1995. One of her dissertation topics was

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Career

After graduating, Adler initially briefly worked for ''The Times'' before moving to Vienna in August 1995 to work for Mondial Congress, an organiser of International Congresses. She began working as a correspondent for Austrian national public broadcaster

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in late 1995, reporting locally and then internationally from

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and across

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and

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. Adler joined the BBC in Vienna in 1998, reporting on Austrian and Central European affairs. After becoming the BBC's Berlin correspondent for a short period, from 2000 she was based in London for the

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presenting on European current affairs, and commuting weekly to Berlin to work as a news anchor for Deutsche Welle Television. From August 2003, she was the BBC Madrid correspondent, travelling around Europe,

and

to cover stories including the deaths of

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and Palestinian leader

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in a Paris hospital. Adler also reported on the

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. She admitted in an interview in 2019 that she had lied about being able to speak Spanish to get the Madrid correspondent job. Adler later learned the language by listening to Spanish political radio and Mexican soap operas. From December 2006 Adler was the BBC's Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem but reporting around the region from Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Libya. During this period she was also an occasional presenter or interviewer on ''

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''. Adler has also presented a number of one-hour documentaries, such as ''Mexico's Drug Wars'' for BBC2. Her film ''Spain's Stolen Babies'' was runner-up for an

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award in 2012. At the end of April 2014 she was appointed the BBC's Europe editor, replacing

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. Her appointment was controversial because her

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profile stated that for 15 years she had regularly facilitated conferences for a number of clients including one for the

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. This brought about criticism from

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MPs, including

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and

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. Davies stated: "this cosy relationship between the BBC and the European Commission severely undermines your editorial integrity and ability to report matters in a strictly objective manner." The BBC in written response clarified that Adler had at the time been working freelance for the BBC and a number of other broadcast organisations, and in 19 years had only been paid to chair one EU event in 2005, invited by the UK presidency, not the European Commission. In early February 2017, the BBC broadcast a documentary by Adler titled ''After Brexit: the Battle for Europe'' in which she examined the mounting challenges facing the European Union over the next few years. In June 2017 Adler became one of the four presenters of ''

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'', a BBC podcast covering Brexit. In September 2019, ''Brexit Newscast'' became a regular television broadcast fixture on BBC One, usually following ''Question Time'', as of December 2020. As of 2019, Adler was paid between £205,000-£209,999, placing her on the list of the highest-paid BBC news and current affairs staff.

Criticism of Michael Gove

In September 2020 the BBC partially upheld a complaint against Adler after she sent a series of tweets on 28 April 2020 stating that an "observation" put forward by Cabinet Office Minister

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was "delusional". Gove had stated "the COVID crisis, in some respects, should concentrate the minds of EU negotiators". In addition, Adler's analysis also altered Gove's words, changing the term "should" to "will" in her tweets. The BBC Editorial Complaint Unit ruled that although Adler backed up her opinion with detailed evidence and was entitled to state it, her use of the word "delusional" broke the guidelines' licence for "professional judgements, rooted in evidence".

Awards

Adler was awarded honorary doctorates from

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(

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) and the

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( D.Lit) in July 2017. She was awarded the Charles Wheeler award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcast Journalism in 2019. She has also been awarded Broadcast Journalist of the Year 2018 at the PSA,

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; Broadcast Journalist of the Year 2019 jointly with

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by the

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; Listeners Choice Award at British Podcast awards 2019 for the ''Brexitcast'' podcast. In 2019 she was listed in the ''

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'' as one of London's most influential people, and by ''

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'' magazine as one of Brussels top 20 most influential women in 2017.

Personal life

Adler is married and has three children. As well as English, she speaks German, Spanish, Italian, French, and basic Arabic and Hebrew.

References

External links

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Journalisted – Articles by Katya Adler
{{DEFAULTSORT:Adler, Katya 1972 births Living people British people of German descent Alumni of the University of Bristol BBC newsreaders and journalists BBC World Service presenters British women television journalists British radio presenters British women radio presenters People educated at South Hampstead High School People from Hampstead