Time's People of the Year

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TIME’s people of the year: pic.twitter.com/dB2qYK4Sa8

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 11, 2018

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Quote:According to NBC News, the Committee to Protect Journalists documented 262 cases of imprisoned journalists around the world in 2017. The publication also cited government officials dismissing critical, real reporting as "fake news," as their reasoning for the selection.

Among the individuals spotlighted in the report:

1. Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist and United States resident who was critical of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Khashoggi was brutally killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, in October.
2. Four journalists and a sales associate gunned down in a mass shooting at the Capital Gazette in Maryland in July.
3. Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were sentenced to seven years in prison by a judge in Myanmar. The two broke a colonial-era state secrets law while reporting on the military's mass killing of Rohingya Muslims.
4. Maria Ressa, CEO and executive editor of Rappler, has reported on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. His website has been deemed a "campaign of legal harassment" from Duterte's Department of Justice.