Looking Back, and Moving Forward, With Gratitude

As 2024 winds down, I want to take a moment to thank you for being a valuable member of the FRONTLINE community.

Your support is critical in making our journalism possible.

We are living in an era where we’re witnessing, in real-time, the disintegration of fundamental, shared truths. But journalism that is based on the facts, on deep reporting that is fair and tough, can contribute to rebuilding a shared reality.

That is exactly the sort of journalism we’ve worked to bring you, in many forms, over the past 12 months, and that we will continue to focus on in the year to come.

Thank you for watching our new documentaries on everything from the changing U.S. economy, to the U.S.-China relationship, to our political leaders, to the human toll of the October 7 attacks on Israel and the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

Thank you for exploring our source material, as we opened up our reporting and published 70 extended interviews from the making of our documentaries through the FRONTLINE Transparency Project.

Thank you for listening to our audio journalism, from probing conversations on The FRONTLINE Dispatch, to audio versions of our documentaries, to our work with our Local Journalism Initiative partners on the limited-series podcast Breakdown.

Thank you for reading our digital stories, some with our trusted editorial partners, on everything from Assad’s fall in Syria, to extremism on Telegram, to a Russian artist whose anti-war protest was featured in an earlier FRONTLINE documentary.

Thank you for engaging with our joint interactive investigations exploring police use of “less-lethal force” and Korean adoptees’ searches for the truth about their origins.

Thank you for paying attention as our reporting delivered accountability and impact on issues including policing and plastics pollution.

Thank you for sharing our pride as we won our first-ever Academy Award, the Best Documentary Feature Oscar for 20 Days in Mariupol, as well as three Peabody Awards, two Emmy Awards, and more.

Looking ahead to 2025, we will have another robust slate of documentaries and related reporting, tackling the most pressing issues here at home and abroad. And as always, we value and rely on your support.

If you can, please consider making a donation to The FRONTLINE Dispatch as this year draws to a close and a new one begins.

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Thank you for believing in the power of investigative journalism, year in and year out.

– Raney Aronson-Rath FRONTLINE Editor-in-Chief and Executive Producer