How the Guardian covered 2022

 

How the Guardian covered 2022

Today in Focus Series

Presented by Michael Safi with Katharine Viner; produced by Tom Glasser and Rudi Zygadlo; executive producer Phil Maynard

 

Fri 23 Dec 2022 03.00 GMTLast modified on Fri 23 Dec 2022 10.19 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2022/dec/23/looking-back-at-2022

 

The Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, talks about how the newspaper covered a year that witnessed war in Europe, three UK prime ministers, the death of the Queen and a winter of industrial strife

 

This year has passed at a dizzying pace. We began 2022 with an ominous troop buildup on the Ukrainian border; weeks later Europe would once again witness a land war on the continent.

 

As the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, tells Michael Safi, it is a conflict that has loomed over everything else this year. For a while, Boris Johnson’s popular support of Ukraine was the main thing keeping him afloat, until even he could not wriggle out of the mess he had got himself in and had to offer his resignation.

 

His replacement in No 10, Liz Truss, was a disaster. A premiership that spanned 44 days was punctuated with crises and ended in humiliation. The country she left in her wake was markedly poorer than the one she had inherited. Rishi Sunak became the third UK prime minister of the year and was sworn in by a new monarch after the death of the Queen.

 

It has been a year also of further climate chaos as Europe experienced searing heat and Pakistan was devastated by floods. There was also turbulence in Silicon Valley as tech companies laid off thousands of workers, cryptocurrency bets imploded and Twitter was bought and transformed overnight by Elon Musk.

 

This is our last episode of 2022. Thank you to everyone who has listened this year. We will return with new episodes on 3 January 2023.