Every weeknight, Steve Kenny, the senior editor for nights at The New York Times, sends an email to editors and reporters all over the world that recaps the news.
Collectively, these notes tell the story of an unforgettable year. nyti.ms/38bxtC5
Collectively, these notes tell the story of an unforgettable year. nyti.ms/38bxtC5
With the subject: “Late note,” these emails are little chronicles of the world as it unfolds. They recount, in unadorned sentences largely free of affect, what happened on any given day. Some of these events will be forgotten. Many will linger and scar. nyti.ms/38bxtC5 
The time stamps are a catalog of the small hours: 1:14 a.m., 3:37 a.m., 4:12 a.m., 2:34 a.m. Meant to prepare the daytime staff for the next day, the emails are written and sent when a great many are in bed, falling asleep or trying to. nyti.ms/38bxtC5
It is, of course, impossible to sum up a year — this one, more than most. It was grim, sobering and unbelievable.
Strangely enough, in a year that yielded one blaring headline after another, no single headline could encompass what we lived through. nyti.ms/38bxtC5
Strangely enough, in a year that yielded one blaring headline after another, no single headline could encompass what we lived through. nyti.ms/38bxtC5
Instead, there are these notes, the news stories they yielded and the vivid photographs that captured what may ultimately be remembered as a relentless year. See more about what these notes say about 2020: nyti.ms/38bxtC5
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