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

This year has been dominated by Donald Trump. It hasn’t even been a full 12 months since he returned to the White House in January, but already the changes he’s made — both in the United States and around the world — seemed barely conceivable in 2024.
Katharine Vinerthe editor-in-chief of the Guardian, says Annie Kelly what it looked like from the editor’s chair: from the deployment of the National Guard on American streets, to the humiliation of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, to the erosion of the rules that once governed peace and war.

In the UK, she describes a Labor government failing to tell its story and missing opportunity after opportunity to tackle the rise of the Reform and far right. “Politics is about timing,” she said of the government’s notable silence over the summer, “and I think a lot of those opportunities were missed.”
It has not been a year without hope, from the unexpected success of left-wing figures such as Zohran Mamdani and Zack Polanski, to the Guardian’s decisive victories in court to defend its reporting, in a case described as a landmark decision for #MeToo journalism.
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