Slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and other reporters who’ve been killed or imprisoned were named Tuesday as Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2018.…
Slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and other reporters who’ve been killed or imprisoned were named Tuesday as Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2018.
The magazine dubbed its choice as “The Guardians and the War on Truth” — and the Person of the Year issue features four covers depicting Khashoggi, Philippines-based editor Maria Ressa, jailed Burmese Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo and their wives, and the staff of Maryland’s Capital Gazette.
“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, according to Today.com .
“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.
