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December 11, 2018 - TIME's 2018 Person of the Year: 'The Guardians and the War on Truth' (Videos)
TIME's 2018 Person of the Year: The Guardians
Four journalists and one newspaper "are representative of a broader fight by countless others around the world."
A group of journalists whose work has landed them in jail — or cost them their lives — has been named TIME’s Person of the Year for 2018.
“Like all human gifts, courage comes to us at varying levels and at varying moments,” the magazine’s editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal wrote in an essay about the selection. “This year we are recognizing four journalists and one news organization who have paid a terrible price to seize the challenge of this moment: Jamal Khashoggi, Maria Ressa, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo and the Capital Gazette of Annapolis, Md.”
The magazine revealed its choice of "The Guardians and the War on Truth" on Tuesday on TODAY, along with the four magazine covers featuring Khashoggi, Ressa, the Gazette staff and the wives of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo.
TIME's choice for 2018 Person of the Year, featured on four separate covers: Jamal Khashoggi (upper left), the staff of the Capital Gazette newspaper (upper right), Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, represented in photos held by their wives (lower left) and Maria Ressa (lower right).TIME
Jamal Khashoggi is the Washington Post columnist murdered for his criticism of the Saudi crown prince. Maria Ressa is the editor of a Philippine news website 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 Capital Gazette is the paper targeted by a gunman who opened fire into the newsroom, killing four journalists and a sales assistant.
TIME 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."
The magazine said the four individuals and the lone newspaper symbolize something bigger than themselves.
“They are representative of a broader fight by countless others around the world — as of Dec. 10, at least 52 journalists have been murdered in 2018 — who risk all to tell the story of our time,” Felsenthal wrote in his essay.
The Person of the Year title is not necessarily an honor or award, but representative of the influence the person — or idea — has had on the news within the past year, for better or worse.
Felsenthal, who appeared Tuesday on TODAY to make the reveal, said this marks the first year TIME has named someone who is no longer alive a Person of the Year.
"But it’s also very rare that a person’s influence grows so immensely in death," he said of Khashoggi. "His murder has prompted a global reassessment of the Saudi crown prince and a really long overdue look at the devastating war in Yemen."
TIME has made the designation every year since 1927.
TIME's 2018 Person of the Year: The Guardians
Four journalists and one newspaper "are representative of a broader fight by countless others around the world."
A group of journalists whose work has landed them in jail — or cost them their lives — has been named TIME’s Person of the Year for 2018.
“Like all human gifts, courage comes to us at varying levels and at varying moments,” the magazine’s editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal wrote in an essay about the selection. “This year we are recognizing four journalists and one news organization who have paid a terrible price to seize the challenge of this moment: Jamal Khashoggi, Maria Ressa, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo and the Capital Gazette of Annapolis, Md.”
The magazine revealed its choice of "The Guardians and the War on Truth" on Tuesday on TODAY, along with the four magazine covers featuring Khashoggi, Ressa, the Gazette staff and the wives of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo.
TIME's choice for 2018 Person of the Year, featured on four separate covers: Jamal Khashoggi (upper left), the staff of the Capital Gazette newspaper (upper right), Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, represented in photos held by their wives (lower left) and Maria Ressa (lower right).TIME
Jamal Khashoggi is the Washington Post columnist murdered for his criticism of the Saudi crown prince. Maria Ressa is the editor of a Philippine news website 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 Capital Gazette is the paper targeted by a gunman who opened fire into the newsroom, killing four journalists and a sales assistant.
TIME 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."
The magazine said the four individuals and the lone newspaper symbolize something bigger than themselves.
“They are representative of a broader fight by countless others around the world — as of Dec. 10, at least 52 journalists have been murdered in 2018 — who risk all to tell the story of our time,” Felsenthal wrote in his essay.
The Person of the Year title is not necessarily an honor or award, but representative of the influence the person — or idea — has had on the news within the past year, for better or worse.
Felsenthal, who appeared Tuesday on TODAY to make the reveal, said this marks the first year TIME has named someone who is no longer alive a Person of the Year.
"But it’s also very rare that a person’s influence grows so immensely in death," he said of Khashoggi. "His murder has prompted a global reassessment of the Saudi crown prince and a really long overdue look at the devastating war in Yemen."
TIME has made the designation every year since 1927.
