‘Time’ Person Of The Year For 2018: Journalists Fighting ‘War On Truth’

Time magazine is printing four covers for its “Person of the Year” issue, featuring Jamal Khashoggi, top left, members of the Capital Gazette newspaper staff, top right, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, bottom left, and Maria Ressa.

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Time has chosen a group of four journalists and a news organization as its Person of the Year for 2018, hailing them for “taking great risks in pursuit of greater truths” in what the magazine called a “war on truth.”

Its upcoming edition highlights slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and staff members of the Capital Gazette of Annapolis, Md.; along with journalists punished for attempting to report facts: Maria Ressa of the Rappler news site in the Philippines and Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo.