Time Person of the Year 2018

About:

• Person of the Year is an annual issue of the United States news magazine Time that features and profiles a person, a group, an idea, or an object that "for better or for worse has done the most to influence the events of the year".
  
  
• The tradition began in 1927.
  
  
• Mahatma Gandhi is the only Indian to be selected as Time Person of year (1930).
  
  

2018 person of the year:

• Killed and imprisoned journalists - "The Guardians" - have been named 2018's "Person of the Year" by Time.
  
  
• The magazine featured four different covers with journalists who have been targeted for their work this year.
  
  
• This includes
  • Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in October at his country’s Istanbul consulate.
    
    
  • Philippine journalist Maria Ressa,
    
    
  • Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo — currently imprisoned in Myanmar — and
    
    
  • the staff of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, including five members killed in a June shooting.
    
    
  
  
  
• Time said they were chosen "for taking great risks in pursuit of greater truths, for the imperfect but essential quest for facts, for speaking up and for speaking out".