Eight journalists from the Mediaite’s Most Influential in News Media 2025 who I think deserve special mention for their credibility, judgement and professionalism…

1. Jessica Tarlov
2. Kaitlan Collins
3. George Stephanopoulos
4. Jon Stewart
5. Kara Swisher
6. Scott Galloway
7. Mehdi Hasan
8. Andrew Ross Sorkin

Pablo Torre deserves recognition for his sports reporting and investigative journalism, a rarity in sports news today.

TIME’s Person of the Year: Architects of AI (Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the CEO of Google’s DeepMind division Demis Hassabis, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li,)

My 2025 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelenskyy

My 2026 Person of the Year: ET

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I remember, with sadness, the moment it became clear that hospice care was necessary in the final phase of my mother’s life. Hospice is not about abandonment; it is about recognition—acknowledging that a loved one can no longer safely care for themselves. In my mother’s case, dementia stripped away coherence and judgment. She became irrational, prone to rage, suspicious of those trying to help her, and given to delusions and wild exaggerations that bore no resemblance to her once gentle, introverted nature.

Hospice mattered not only for her, but for those charged with caring for her. It imposed structure, limits, and compassion where denial would only have prolonged harm. Watching this decline was painful, but pretending it wasn’t happening would have been far worse. That same difficult recognition applies whether the person in question is a private citizen—or the President of the United States.