Emily Maitlis, the presenter of Newsnight. (TV: Revolution of the Daleks)
Newsnight was a TV show broadcast on Earth.
While Gwen Cooper was at work in the mid 2000s, Rhys Williams and Lucy Sobel watched Newsnight while they ate cheese on toast. (PROSE: Slow Decay)
The night before she met the Tenth Doctor, Martha Jones watched Newsnight as host Jeremy Paxman talked with politician Harold Saxon. (PROSE: Martha Jones' MySpace blog)
After preventing Androvax from destroying Earth with the Bannerman Road gang, Gita Chandra thought she might be on Newsnight. She mentioned she was attracted to Jeremy Paxman. (TV: The Vault of Secrets)
Emily Maitlis presented an interview with Jack Robertson on Newsnight following the attempted Dalek takeover and subsequent civil war in 2021. (TV: Revolution of the Daleks)
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Newsnight have previously had items on Doctor Who news. At various points, they teased the identity of the Thirteenth Doctor to be both Tom Ellis and Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
In the real world, and implied to be the case in the DWU by Martha Jones' MySpace blog and The Vault of Secrets, the programme was presented by Jeremy Paxman from 1989 to 2014.
