How the Guardian reported 2025, with editor-in-chief Katharine Viner

It has been a twelvemonth dominated by Donald Trump. It has not yet moreover been 12 afloat months since his return to nan White House successful January but already nan changes he has wrought – some successful nan US and astir nan world – seemed scarcely conceivable successful 2024.
Katharine Viner, nan Guardian’s editor-in-chief, tells Annie Kelly what it has looked for illustration from nan editor’s chair: from nan deployment of nan nationalist defender connected American streets, to nan humiliation of Volodymyr Zelenskyy successful nan Oval Office, to nan erosion of nan rules that erstwhile governed bid and war.

In nan UK, she describes a Labour authorities failing to show its communicative and missing chance aft chance to tackle nan emergence of Reform and nan acold right. ‘Politics is astir timing,’ she says of nan government’s notable soundlessness complete nan summer, ‘and I deliberation a batch of those opportunities were missed.’
It has not been a twelvemonth without hope, from nan unexpected occurrence of leftwing figures specified arsenic Zohran Mamdani and Zack Polanski, to nan Guardian’s decisive victories successful tribunal defending its reporting, successful a lawsuit described arsenic a landmark ruling for #MeToo journalism.
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