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Time Honors Khashoggi, Journalists As 'Person Of The Year'

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Time announce its “Person of the Year” honorees on Tuesday. The honored is a group of journalists, including a murdered Saudi Arabian writer and two Reuters reporters imprisoned by Myanmar. The publication also honored the founder of a Philippines news website and the Maryland newspaper that was the target of a mass shooting. The cover story highlighted Reuters’ Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, and Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi writer who was killed two months ago in Turkey. “I hope that this is received by the public at large far, far beyond the United States as a reminder of the importance of defending free expression and the pursuit of truth and facts." Ben Goldberger, Time magazine’s assistant managing editor The annual distinction serves to recognize the person or group that had the greatest influence on world events that year.

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