TIME magazine has recognized journalists, including the slain Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, as its 2018 Person of the Year in what it said was an e
TIME magazine has recognized journalists, including the slain Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, as its 2018 Person of the Year in what it said was an effort to emphasize the importance of reporters’ work in an increasingly hostile world.
TIME is producing four different covers featuring the honorees it calls “the guardians.” They include, slain Saudi Arabian columnist, Jamal Khashoggi, staff of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, where five people were shot to death in June; Philippine journalist Maria Ressa; and Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who have been jailed in Myanmar for a year. This will be the first the magazine which began the end-of-year tradition in 1927, will feature journalists or recognize someone posthumously.
TIME magazine said that 2018 has been marked by manipulation and abuse of information, along with efforts by governments to foment mistrust of the facts. Goldberger said the magazine hopes the choice reminds people outside of journalism about the importance of the work. Jamal Khashoggi who lived in the US before his death, is one of at least 52 journalists murdered so far this year. A Washington Post columnist. Jamal Khashoggi was killed two months when he visited Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Turkey for paperwork so he could get married. He had been critical of the Saudi regime.
Reesa co-founded the online website, the Rappler, which has aggressively covered the government of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. She was recently charged with tax fraud, with many in the Philippines seeing that as a reaction to the Rappler’s reporting. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were imprisoned after investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslims. Four journalists and a sales assistant were killed by a gunman at the Capital Gazette newspaper last spring.
While US president, Donald Trump is this year’s runner-up, the third-place finisher is special counsel Robert Mueller, who TIME indicated could move up in next year’s rankings depending on the findings of his investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia.
Last year TIME magazine recognized people who came forward to report on sexual misconducts.
