Thank You for Reading in 2025—As ATN Prepares to Mark Ten Years
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By the Editor & News Team of American Television News (ATN)
New York, NY: As 2025 comes to a close, we want to begin with a simple and sincere note of thanks. Thank you to our readers—those who return regularly, those who read closely, and those who take the time to think through the complexities of a world that rarely offers easy answers. In a year defined less by resolution than by accumulation, your attention has mattered more than ever.
From the outset, American Television News was never designed to chase volume for its own sake. Our aim has always been to provide reporting that slows the moment just enough to make sense of it. The data from the past year suggests that many of you came to ATN for exactly that reason.
Who Read ATN in 2025
Audience data from 2025 shows a readership anchored in the United States, which accounted for about 31 percent of total visitors, but a much larger share of engagement—just over 40 percent of page views and more than a third of site sessions. That imbalance tells an important story: U.S.-based readers were not just visiting, they were staying.
Beyond the United States, ATN’s top markets reflected the nature of our coverage rather than the scale of mass media consumption.
Top 10 Markets by Share of Visitors
United States — 30.8%
• France — 4.6%
• Switzerland — 4.2%
• Egypt — 3.9%
• United Kingdom — 3.7%
• India — 3.2%
• Singapore — 2.9%
• Russia — 2.5%
• Canada — 2.1%
• Germany — 2.0%
Together, these markets accounted for more than half of ATN’s global audience—largely diplomatic hubs, policy centers, and globally connected societies where readers are looking for context rather than headlines alone.
The Stories You Spent Time With
The clearest insight from 2025 is not just where readers came from, but what they chose to read closely and return to.
The following articles emerged as the top-performing stories of the year, based on sustained readership and engagement. They reflect the themes that defined ATN’s editorial focus in 2025: leadership, reform, diplomacy, climate, culture, and shifting power.
Top 10 Stories of 2025
(Ranked by Traffic & Reader Engagement)
Editor’s Picks
Taken together, these articles point to a readership more interested in depth than speed, and in stories that connect institutions to people, policy to culture, and diplomacy to lived experience.
The strong performance of Ink of Peace and other culture-focused reporting reinforced an important insight from 2025: readers are not only following formal negotiations and power dynamics, but also the quieter cultural currents that shape diplomacy when politics stalls.
Multilingual adaptations—particularly into Spanish and Chinese—extended the reach of several of these stories without diluting their substance, reflecting how global audiences increasingly move between languages when following international affairs.
Looking Ahead to 2026 — A Milestone Year
With 2026 on the horizon, American Television News is preparing to mark its 10th anniversary—at a time when international journalism faces mounting financial, political, and structural pressures.
Our response will not be to publish more, but to publish with sharper intent.
Key priorities for 2026 include:
• Launching a Daily UN Briefing focused on what truly matters inside the UN system each day
• Sustained coverage of the selection process for the next UN Secretary-General
• Expanded reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals, including implementation, financing, and cultural diplomacy
• Deeper focus on climate diplomacy and climate finance
• Continued development of thematic series on peacekeeping, reform, emerging diplomatic alignments, and culture
• A significant expansion of multilingual adaptation, with the goal of making flagship articles and reports fully multilingual by year’s end
Ten years in, the mission remains unchanged: to report from inside the corridors of global decision-making, to listen carefully to what is said—and what is left unsaid—and to document a world where diplomacy rarely offers clean endings.
If 2025 demonstrated anything, it is that there is still an audience for journalism that takes its time.
For that, and for your continued trust, thank you.