Are you ready for the holidays?
With Thanksgiving so late this year, the holiday season may have dropped on you suddenly, as it did on me.
A few parties, maybe some shopping and, boom, we’re already at Christmas and then New Year’s. Wait, where did the past year go anyway?
Each December, I reflect both on where TheBurg has been over the past year and where we’re heading now. I find it’s a great exercise to keep me grounded, as well as to help set a general direction and goals.
Looking back, I’d say we had a very good 2024.
We performed our core functions well: daily news, monthly magazine, 3rd in the Burg. Along the way, we racked up a personal best for press awards (26!), were named “News Organization of the Year” for a fourth straight year, signed up a hundred or so new “Friends of TheBurg” and hosted an amazing blowout—TheBurg Bash—at the King Mansion. And, all year long, we executed well in an industry—the news business—that’s tough and getting tougher all the time.
For 2025, our 17th year, we plan to offer our area another year of reliable, dependable local news, information, entertainment and events. Along the way, we hope to add some beauty, whimsy and texture to life in the capital region. We also expect (fingers crossed) to add a new staff member to bolster our reporting capacity, a goal we’ve had for a very long time.
Of course, we can’t see into the future, so we don’t know exactly what the next year has in store. But, with nearly 17 years under our belts, we feel confident in our ability to adapt and prosper. After all, we’ve already weathered everything from local crises to national recessions to a worldwide pandemic. So, what’s a little more uncertainty?
We thank you all—our readers, advertisers, fans and supporters—for a wonderful year and hope you’ll stay with us during our journey into and through 2025. Personally, I can’t wait to see what wonderful things my staff will dream up to delight you.
Happy holidays, everyone!
Lawrance Binda is publisher and editor of TheBurg.
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