TIME’s 2018 Person of the Year: ‘The Guardians and the War on Truth’

Jamal Khashoggi, other journalists named Time Person of the Year

A group of journalists whose work has landed them in jail – or cost them their lives – four journalists and one news organization has been named TIME’s Person of the Year for 2018.

Jamal Khashoggi is the Washington Post contributor who was killed at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in October. This is the first time that a Person of the Year is a deceased person.

Maria Ressa is the editor of a Philippine news website Rappler, renowned for its critical coverage of its president’s controversially violent policies.

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo are two Reuters journalists who were arrested in Myanmar while investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslims. The two men remain behind bars. Their wives were photographed for the cover.

The Capital Gazette is the paper targeted by a gunman who opened fire into the newsroom, killing four journalists and a sales assistant.

The magazine revealed its choice of “The Guardians and the War on Truth” along with the four magazine covers featuring Khashoggi, Ressa, the Gazette staff and the wives of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo.

TIME has made the designation every year since 1927.

In 2017, magazine editors selected The Silence Breakers, the individuals who spoke up and sparked a national reckoning over the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault.

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