2. This year, I was proudest of our news organization when our GMA team partnered with our local owned stations and ABC affiliates all over the southeastern U.S. after Hurricane Helene hit to cover the storm damage and raise money and awareness over five days of nonstop coverage. It’s important to use our platform to help our fellow Americans
Naja Nielsen, digital director of BBC News
1. Well, it’s definitely a year worthy of a place in history books. I have felt more than ever that we at BBC News cover history as it unfolds. The rise of AI, the explosion of disinformation, the very consequential election results in so many countries, and equally consequential wars. I also feel it was a year when it became clearer than ever what is worth protecting and fighting for—trust, democracy, a shared conversation across many different views for example. News and journalism you can trust, along with constructive and respectful debate, is more important than ever before.
2. This year I was proudest of our news organization when we collaborated across the world, among different teams, newsrooms, and countries to report on the recent events unfolding in Syria, where the BBC were the first western journalists in Damascus. It is an example of how we report from every corner of the globe and bring access to the most important stories across broadcast, digital, and streaming in a way that no one else can. The center of BBC News is our journalism, and we remain committed to the value of reporting, having boots on the ground with real journalists doing real journalism, talking to the people, both those with power and those without, and reporting the reality based on facts and what we learn from the widest possible range of sources.
Ed O’Keefe, senior White House and political correspondent for CBS News
1. History will long remember June 27-July 21, 2024: The month that reshaped American politics most of all.
More specifically, it might train its eye on what transpired between roughly 6:15 p.m. on July 13 and 1:46 p.m. on July 21—the span from when a bullet grazed former president Donald Trump and nearly killed him in western Pennsylvania, to when President Biden, fighting off a bout of COVID-19, opted to drop out of the presidential race. It was the most intense period of my political journalism career.
