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Jeremy Paxman
English retired journalist, author and broadcaster (born 1950)
Jeremy Dickson Paxman[1] (born 11 May 1950) is an English former broadcaster, journalist and author.
Born in Leeds, Paxman was educated at Malvern College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he edited the undergraduate newspaper Varsity. At Cambridge, he was a member of a Labour Party club and described himself as a socialist, in later life describing himself as a one-nation conservative. He joined the BBC in 1972, initially at BBC Radio Brighton, relocating to London in 1977. In following years, he worked on Tonight and Panorama, becoming a newsreader for the BBC Six O'Clock News and later a presenter on Breakfast Time and University Challenge.
In 1989, he became a presenter for the BBC Two programme Newsnight, interviewing many political figures. Paxman became known for his forthright interviewing style, particularly when interrogating politicians.[3] These appearances were sometimes criticised as aggressive, intimidating and condescending, yet also a
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Dr Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Paxman is an award-winning journalist, author and television presenter. Beginning his career covering The Troubles in Northern Ireland for three years, he then spent 8 years reporting from around the world for the BBC, before becoming anchorman of the BBC’s nightly news analysis programme, Newsnight in 1989, a post he held for 25 years. He has been chairman of University Challenge since 1994. He is the author of numerous documentaries and documentary series – on the history of the British Empire, on the poet Wilfred Owen, on Victorian art, on Churchill’s funeral and on the effect of the First World War on Great Britain.
His 2014 one-man show PAXO at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was a critically acclaimed sell-out.
Jeremy Paxman was born in Yorkshire in 1950 and educated at Malvern College in Worcestershire and received his degree from St Catharine's in 1972. As well as being an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's, he is also a Fellow by Special Election at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He holds honorary doctorates from Leeds, Bra
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Alongside John Humphrys of Radio 4's Today programme, Jeremy Paxman is the best examplar of the sea change in television's treatment of politicians since the 1950s, from deference to a more critical engagement and, occasionally, something close to contempt.
Paxman was born in Leeds on 11 May 1950, and educated in Worcestershire and at St Catherine's College, Cambridge. After an apprenticeship in local radio, he spent three years as a reporter in Northern Ireland, before returning to London in 1977 and joining the BBC's Tonight programme (1975-79) and subsequently Panorama (BBC, 1953), as a reporter, in which role he travelled extensively in Europe, Central America, Africa and the Middle East.
In 1984 he became anchor of the BBC's new 6 O'Clock News, and the following year moved to Breakfast News. But it is as anchor of Newsnight (BBC, 1980-) from 1989 that he has become best known, attracting acclaim - and several awards - for his tough, even savage, approach to interviews ("I am always asking myself," he famously said, "why is this lying bastard lying to me?"). S
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