Time magazine announced their "Person of the Year" on Tuesday. This year, instead of having just one winner, they chose a group.
Named "The Guardians", TIME awarded several journalists who were either killed, arrested, or charged for doing their job. They include Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, five members of the Capital Gazette staff, journalist Maria Ressa, and Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo.
Their pictures were issued on four different covers of the magazines.
Jamal Khashoggi was an influential Saudi Arabian journalist who was murdered in his country's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on October 2 this year.
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi (L) and wives of journalists Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, named TIME's Person of the Year 2018. /VCG Photo
Before that, he had worked as a columnist for the Washington Post and been very critical of the Saudi authorities.
On the day of his disappearance, he was supposed to prepare paperwork to marry his fiancée, who had waited for him for hours outside the consulate but he never returned.
Maria Ressa, a Filipino journalist (L), and the staff of the Capital Gazette newspaper, named TIME's Person of the Year 2018. /VCG Photo
Five members of an American newspaper, The Capital, ran by the Capital Gazette Communications, were killed in a mass shooting carried out by a gunman on June 28 this year.
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were Burmese journalist serving for Reuters. They were sentenced to seven years in jail with hard labor.
Maria Ressa is a Filipino journalist who has been critical of President Rodrigo Duterte on her self-founded site, Rappler. The site's license was revoked in January this year, and in November, was charged with tax evasion.
(Cover: Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's photo on the cover of Time magazine. /VCG Photo)