Time Magazine chooses dead journalists arrested as "Personality of the Year" | World

To justify his choice, Time cited the record number of journalists jailed around the world – the Committee to Protect Journalists recorded 262 cases in 2017.

He also spoke of an avalanche of misinformation in networks . social and government officials from the United States and the Philippines, who view "false news" as critical information to their governments.

"This year, we pay tribute to four journalists and a media who have paid a terrible price to face the challenges of this moment," said Edward Felsenthal, Director of Time.

The professionals mentioned by the magazine are columnist Jamal Khashoggi of the Washington Post, former CNN journalist in the Philippines, Maria Ressa, as well as employees of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis and Reuters.

Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist critical of the Saudi government, appears on the cover of the special issue. He was killed in October in his country's consulate in Istanbul.

The case had repercussions in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Other countries have also expressed interest, including the United States, where the reporter lived.

US senators said they believed that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was involved in the journalist's death after learning of a report from the US intelligence agency CIA.

For President Donald Trump, however, the CIA's badessment of the connection between prince and crime is still very "premature".

The Filipino journalist, a former CNN network reporter for the branch, opened the Rappler news site in 2012, with reports critical of President Rodrigo Duterte.

According to the Committee for the Protection of Journalists, this coverage provided the site with a "judicial harbadment campaign" by Duterte's Ministry of Justice.

The editorial of a newspaper of the US state of Maryland was attacked by an armed man in June of this year. Five people died – four journalists and a commercial badistant.

Jarrod Ramos, 38, was arrested after the action. He faces five counts of homicide.

After the attack, reporters set up an improvised ploy on the parking lot of a shopping center in order to close the day's number with the news of the mbadacre.