‘Always New Stories to Be Told’

Considering the many, many industry shake-ups that defined the year, it’s easy—perhaps too easy—to feel pessimistic about the future of TV news. That’s why TVNewser decided to dedicate the last day of 2024 to spotting the green shoots that may bloom in 2025.

As a companion piece to our 2024 lookback, we asked insiders at all the major networks to spring forward and share some positive vibes heading into the new year by answering two questions.

1. 2025 is poised to be a year of big changes and challenges for the news media. What makes you optimistic about the industry as the calendar turns?

2. Complete this sentence: “Our resolution to viewers in 2025 is…”

See their responses below.

Chris Dinan, executive producer of ABC News’ World News Tonight

1. The industry has shown its resilience time and again across a wide variety of challenges, some of which could hardly have been imagined in years past. The success of World News Tonight with David Muir makes it clear there’s a strong and growing demand for high-quality journalism. So that, along with the daily dedication of the journalists I work alongside each day, is a constant source for my optimism.

2. Our resolution to viewers in 2025 is to continue a long legacy of excellence and dedication to delivering the news accurately, fairly and in context, so that every minute spent with World News Tonight—or any ABC News program—is the best possible use of our viewer’s valuable time.

Naja Nielsen, digital director of BBC News

1. A positive byproduct of the spread of misinformation and disinformation is that news organizations are being forced to be more transparent and rigorous in their reporting. To address this, we have launched BBC Verify in both the UK and the US, and the enormous, overwhelmingly positive response from our audiences tell us we are meeting an important need for many.