Who's your pick for 2018's person of the year?

With journalists under attack, Time singles out reporters

By Mary Elizabeth Williams

Senior Writer

Published December 11, 2018 8:00PM (EST)

Jamal Khashoggi on the cover of 'Time' (Twitter/TIME)
Jamal Khashoggi on the cover of 'Time' (Twitter/TIME)

Salon introduces its Questions of the Day, where we invite you to lead the conversation.

This week Time magazine bestowed its venerable Person of the Year title on "The Guardians," journalists murdered, imprisoned and harassed in the line of work. Among them are Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist killed in Turkey in October, and the Capital Gazette staffers gunned down in a mass shooting last summer. Do you agree with the choice? Who in your mind was the person who most defined 2018?


By Mary Elizabeth Williams

Mary Elizabeth Williams is a senior writer for Salon and author of "A Series of Catastrophes & Miracles." Follow her on Bluesky @maryelizabethw.

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