This year, Time magazine has chosen a group of people to honor, “The Guardians,” a group of journalists who have been targeted for their work, as Person of the Year.

In a stunning series of four black-and-white covers, Time calls it “the War on Truth.”

One cover is an evocative portrait of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post contributor who was tortured and killed at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in October. (This marks the  first time that a Person of the Year is a deceased person.)

Another cover above features the wives of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, the two Reuters journalists who were arrested one year ago in Myanmar because they revealed the mass murders of  Rohingya Muslims, a minority population in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Since the two men still remain behind bars, Time photographed photos of their wives holding photos of their brave husbands.T

“The Guardians” also includes the journalists at the Capital Gazette, the Annapolis, Maryland newspaper where five employees were murdered by a gunman last June. Even in the chaos and loss of friends, the team persevered and put out a paper. Because that’s what real journalists do.

And the fourth cover shows Maria Ressa, chief executive of the Philippine news website Rappler. She was indicted last month on tax evasion charges — a case that free speech and civil liberties advocates have warned is part of a wider crackdown on dissent by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration.

“For taking great risks in pursuit of greater truths, for the imperfect but essential quest for facts that are central to civil discourse, for speaking up and for speaking out, the Guardians” are the Person of the Year, Time editor Ed Felsenthal wrote. Here, here.

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