Help LAist set our 2025 reporting agenda. Take our survey to share what's on your mind

When you share your experiences with LAist, it helps us do a better job of tackling the subjects and questions that are top of mind for Southern Californians.

When we hear from people across the region's diverse communities, we're in a better position to meet our core mission to serve you — from news to navigating life.

Why it matters

LAist journalism is powered by our community surveys. Just a few examples:

• Your priorities for city leadership led to our Promise Tracker, where we kept tabs on our mayor’s progress improving the homelessness crisis.
• Your input on dyslexia led to an entire series on how the learning disorder affects Southern Californians from preschool to higher education.
• You’ve also helped us capture SoCal’s feelings about lighter topics, such as what it’s like to follow California’s composting law, or where to find the best Conchas in Los Angeles.
  

In 2025, your voice needs to remain a key component in how we shape our coverage of Los Angeles, Orange County, and beyond to be as useful as possible.

Tell LAist: What’s on your mind as we head into 2025?

It’s a new year, and we kick it off coming out of a contentious national election.

Here in California, voters rejected an end to unpaid prison labor and turned down an effort to raise the minimum wage statewide. They also voted to protect the right of same sex couples to marry, increased penalties for some low-level crimes and raised funding to deal with climate change.

Closer to home, voters elected new leaders in many of our cities, and passed bonds to raise more money for many school districts across the region. In L.A. County, voters agreed to raise taxes again to fund efforts to reduce homelessness. They also rejected the re-election efforts of a progressive D.A.

That’s what happened in the last election cycle. Now we’re looking forward to the months ahead.

Here’s where we need your input today: What issues facing Southern California have been on your mind the most? What are you most worried about, or, what are you feeling optimistic about?

As we make our coverage plans for 2025, tell us what’s been on your mind in this short survey:

We’ll share what we learn with you after we close the survey.

Help us hear from your community

Are you a part of the community that would want to share their insights with local journalists? In addition to input from LAist readers, we also want to hear from Southern Californians outside of our audiences.

After you take the survey, help us hear from more Southern Californians by sharing it with them with this link.

Here are some suggestions for how to do that:

• Post the survey on your social media accounts
• Share it in Facebook groups, Nextdoor forums, L.A. subreddits, and any other social platforms where you talk about local issues 
• Post it in your company Slack