Time honours Khashoggi, scribes

Time yesterday named a group of journalists, including the slain Saudi Arabian writer Jamal Khashoggi and two Reuters reporters imprisoned by Myanmar’s government, as “Person of the Year” and warned the idea of truth as critical to democracy is under assault.

The publication also honoured the founder of a Philippines news website critical of that country’s government and a Maryland newspaper that was the target of a mass shooting, the first time in the magazine’s 95-year history that Time has bestowed the distinction on its own profession.

A cover story highlighted the role of journalists, including Reuters’ Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who Myanmar imprisoned for violating a state secrets act, and Khashoggi, a Saudi writer and critic of the nation’s de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, who was slain two months ago inside a Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey. —