Katya Adler Biography
Katya Adler is a German-born British journalist who has won numerous awards. Since 2014, she has served as the BBC’s Europe Editor. Adler joined the BBC in Vienna in 1998.
How old is Katya Adler? – Age
She is 49 years old as of 3 May 2021. She was born Michal Katya Adler in 1972 in London, United Kingdom.
Katya Adler Family – Education
Adler was born in Germany to German parents. She went to South Hampstead High School, which was a fee-paying independent school. She went to the University of Bristol to study German and Italian. She completed a number of work placements during her year abroad, including at Blue Danube Radio, Reuters, NBC in Turkey, and The Times’ Rome offices. Adler was the president of the political society at university and founded its magazine. She received her diploma in 1995. Denazification was one of her dissertation topics.
Who is Katya Adler Husband? – Marriage
Adler is the father of three children. She speaks German, Spanish, Italian, French, and some Arabic and Hebrew in addition to English.
How much does Katya Adler get paid?
Adler received a salary ranging from £205,000 to £209,999, making her one of the highest-paid BBC news and current affairs employees.
Katya Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $200 thousand.
Katya Adler Career
Following graduation, Adler briefly worked for The New York Times before moving to Vienna in August 1995 to work for Mondial Congress, an international congress organizer. In late 1995, she began working for ORF, Austria’s national public broadcaster, as a correspondent, reporting locally and then internationally from Kosovo, Eastern Europe, Southwest Asia, and North Africa. Adler joined the BBC to cover Austrian and Central European news. Following a brief stint as the BBC’s Berlin correspondent, she worked for the BBC World Service in London from 2000, presenting on European current affairs and commuting weekly to Berlin to work as a news anchor for Deutsche Welle TV.
She was the BBC Madrid correspondent from August 2003 to August 2005, traveling throughout Europe, Southwest Asia, and North Africa to cover stories such as Pope John Paul II’s and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s deaths in a Paris hospital. The Madrid train bombings were also covered by Adler. She admitted in a 2019 interview that she lied about knowing Spanish in order to get the Madrid correspondent job. Listening to Spanish political radio and Mexican soap operas helped Adler learn the language later.
Adler was the BBC’s Middle East correspondent from December 2006 to December 2007, based in Jerusalem but reporting from Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Libya. She was also a regular presenter or interviewer on HARDtalk during this time. Adler has also hosted a number of one-hour documentaries for BBC2, including Mexico’s Drug Wars. In 2012, her film Spain’s Stolen Babies came in second place for an RTS award.
She was named the BBC’s Europe editor at the end of April 2014, succeeding Gavin Hewitt. Her appointment was contentious because her LinkedIn profile stated that she had facilitated conferences for a variety of clients for 15 years, including one for the European Union. Conservative MPs such as Andrew Bridgen and Philip Davies expressed their displeasure with this.
“The BBC’s cozy relationship with the European Commission severely undermines your editorial integrity and ability to report matters in a strictly objective manner,” Davies said. In a written response, the BBC clarified that Adler was working freelance for the BBC and a number of other broadcasting organizations at the time and that in 19 years, he had only been paid to chair one EU event in 2005, which was hosted by the UK presidency, not the European Commission.
In early February 2017, the BBC aired a documentary by Adler titled After Brexit: the Battle for Europe, in which she examined the European Union’s mounting challenges in the coming years. Adler joined the four presenters of the Brexit cast, a BBC podcast about Brexit, in June 2017. As of December 2020, Brexit Newscast became a regular television broadcast fixture on BBC1 in September 2019, usually following BBC Question Time.
