Time magazine collectively named the “Guardians and the War On Truth” — a group of journalists whose pursuit of the truth landed them in jail or cost them their lives — as the 2018 Person of the Year in an announcement Tuesday.
The honorees include slain Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Capital Gazette staff newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, where five journalists were shot and killed in June, and three others: Maria Ressa, the editor of a Philippine news website who was arrested after critical coverage of its president’s controversially violent policies; and Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who detained in Myanmar for nearly a year after investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslims.
Time says it selected the group “for taking great risks in pursuit of greater truths, for the imperfect but essential quest for facts that are central to civil discourse, for speaking up and speaking out.”
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Time’s editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal made the Person of the Year announcement on NBC’s “Today” show. The magazine recognizes the person or group of people who most influenced the news and the world “for better or for worse” during the past year.
In an essay, Felsenthal said the journalists “are representative of a broader fight by countless others around the world.” He noted that as of Dec. 10, at least 52 journalists have been murdered in 2018.
They “risk all to tell the story of our time,” Felsenthal wrote.
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Time also unveiled four magazine covers featuring Khashoggi, Ressa, the Gazette staff and the wives of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo.
Khashoggi was murdered after his criticism of the Saudi crown prince. The Capital Gazette was targeted by a gunman who opened fire in the newsroom, killing four journalists and a sales a assistant.
For more, go to Time magazine.
Image: Anne Arundel County Executive Steven Schuh holds today’s edition of the Capital Gazette on Thursday, on June 289, 2018 in Annapolis, Maryland. Five people were shot and killed in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette by a gunman Jarrod Ramos of Laurel, Maryland Has was arrested and charged with killing 5 people at the daily newspaper. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)