How the Guardian reported 2024 – podcast |

It was the yr that introduced again Donald Trump to political energy. The yr that noticed the Tory’s lose energy after 14 years. The yr that noticed battle unfold throughout the Center East from Gaza to Lebanon. And that introduced pleasure within the form of the Olympics, a Brat summer time and the announcement of an Oasis reunion. Katharine Viner, the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, tells Helen Pidd about what these big adjustments appeared like from the editor’s chair.

She explains the way it felt to look at Labour win the UK elections: “The Guardian has proven by way of its reporting simply how determined life is on the bottom. It was an actual second.” And the way the Guardian will try to cowl a second Trump presidency on condition that “Trump has spelled out in black and white, what he thinks concerning the free press, what he thinks about journalism.”

Earlier this yr, Katharine met the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It was, she says, an enchanting expertise with somebody who has “unbelievable charisma and type of wartime fortitude”. Alongside the turmoil and horror of the battle in Gaza, she says, there was pleasure within the Olympics and a messy Brat summer time.

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• That is our final episode of 2024. Thanks to everybody who has listened this yr. We are going to return with new episodes on 2 January 2025.