A Year Both Brutal and Bright: 13 Favorite Dispatches From 2024 NYT | Top Stories By: Bryant Rousseau 29 December 2024 at 18:01 In a year marked by wars, extreme weather and general wickedness, many dispatches defaulted to a distinctly dark tone. But as our correspondents traversed the globe, they found pockets of light, too. © Clockwise from top left: Dado Galdieri for NYT; Annika Hammerschlag for NYT; Ian Willms for NYT; Dmitry Kostyukov for NYT; Andrew Testa for NYT; Emile Ducke for NYTClockwise from top left, giant puppets of music legends for Carnival in Brazil; the two lead actors in “Io Capitano”; a moose statue in Newfoundland; dancing at the Louvre; a possibly haunted English churchyard; patients at a health spa in Azerbaijan.