TIME honours slain Jamal Khashoggi and other 'Guardians of the truth' for 2018 cover

As face of 2018 'Person of Year' TIME magazine has chalked a group of journalists, including Jamal Khashoggi, murdered journalist from Saudi Arabia. 

choice of cover was to glorify persistent pursuit of ir profession as independent journalists, despite hardships and hurdles of imprisonment and sometimes even death. 

Besides houring Jamal Khashoggi, journalist murdered inside Saudi consulate in Turkey, TIME ackwledged journalists from different walks of life including journalists from Capital Gazette newspapers in Maryland where five people were shot de, Maria Ressa founder of Rappler and anti-government news organisation that was targetted by authoritative President of Philippines, and two Reuter reporters jailed in Myanmar for reporting plight of Rohingya refugees- U Wa Lone and U Kyaw Soe Oo. 

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y were titled as ' guardians of truth' by magazine. 

Khashoggi's death instigated international outr towards Kingdom, and thick ally, US President Donald Trump. 

Person of Year hor, of TIME magazine, is induced to recognise individuals who have h an influence over year.  creative director of TIME said that through se four covers, magazine attempted to amplify varied voices from across world. 

photographer who shot TIME magazine cover of 2018, himself has been imprisoned and blacklisted for his work as a photojournalist covering political disarray and war strained communities of world.

TIME through ir cover aimed at divulging and vocalizing perilous atmosphere for journalists today.

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In 2017, TIME houred a group of women as ' silence breakers,' who stepped a foot ahe to accuse men in powerful positions of sexual abuse as a part of global movement #MeToo