Time ‘Person of Year’ goes to journalists

TIME magazine has named journalists, including a slain Saudi Arabian writer and a pair of Reuters journalists imprisoned by Myanmar’s government, as its “Person of the Year,” in a cover story headlined “The Guardians and the War on Truth.”

The honour went to a series of journalists including Reuters journalists Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, who the government of Myanmar convicted on Sept 3 under the Official Secrets Act in a case seen as a test of democratic freedoms in Myanmar.

Also honoured was Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi who was killed two months ago at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul when he went there to collect documents for his forthcoming marriage.