The Witherly Heights Yearender: Most Influential News Story of 2020

A new day, a new ominous headline! Every news story this year felt like the end of the world. We asked the brave survivors of 2020 which stories had the greatest impact.

Joe Biden was elected as the 46th president.

Siddharth Chavan, Anusha Sharangpani, Anya Patri, Ananya Chittibabu , Kate Lamont 

COVID-19

Siddharth Chavan, Anusha Sharangpani, Kabir Samsi, Abel Kora, Josh Cruz, Sean Cirera, Rowan Tuttle, Jayden Cammarata, Anya Patri, Moksh Paniker, Nitya Sharma, Mallika Saoji, Ms. Jennifer Schriber, Ram Charan

The Black Lives Matter movement

Anonymous (2), Ananya Chittibabu

“George Floyd’s murder.”

Anonymous, Khushi Shah

“WAP.”

Anonymous

“Pfizer Covid Vaccine”

Ian Chang

“World War III”

Sandeep Salwan

“Favorite news story I heard this year: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks”

Jayden Cammarata

“Trump got COVID”

Kate Lamont

“The end of Trump’s presidency”

Ayesha Ashraf