Time Magazine Person Of The Year 2018: The Guardians, Four Covers

Time Magazine has revealed its 2018 Person of the Year to be 'journalists' in America. Releasing four covers, Time recognized the late Saudi columnist Khashoggi, Capital Gazette staff, Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo and Philippine journalist Maria Ressa.

The cover series, which Time calls "guardians and the war on truth," depict reporters who have all taken great risks to expose the truth in an increasingly hostile world. President Donald Trump, who frequently blasts the media for spreading "fake news," is said to have been runner up for this year's person of the year, ironically. However, Time executive editor Ben Goldberger has said that recognizing these journalists was in no way a jab to the U.S. president, reported AP News.

See all four covers of Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2018 below:

Jamal Khashoggi

Columnist. Murdered.

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Jamal Khashoggi, general manager of a new Arabic news channel, speaks during a press conference in Manama, Bahrain, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

A video image of Hatice Cengiz, fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, is played during an event to remember Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post who was killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, in Washington, Friday, Nov. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Capital Gazette

Newspaper. Attacked.

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A man armed with smoke grenades and a shotgun attacked journalists in the building, killing several people before police quickly stormed the building and arrested him, police and witnesses said.

Steve Schuh, county executive of Anne Arundel County, holds a copy of The Capital Gazette near the scene of a shooting at the newspaper's office, Friday, June 29, 2018, in Annapolis, Maryland. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Capital Gazette reporter E.B. Furgurson III looks at crosses and a Star of David representing his five colleagues at a makeshift memorial at the scene outside the office building housing The Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Md., Sunday, July 1, 2018. Jarrod Ramos is charged with murder after police say he opened fire at the newspaper. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Wa Lone & Kyaw Soe Oo

Reporters. Convicted.

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A Myanmar court sentenced two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, to seven years in prison Monday for illegal possession of official documents, a ruling that comes as international criticism mounts over the military's alleged human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims.

Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo, center, talks to journalists during he is escorted by polices as they leave the court Monday, Sept. 3, 2018, in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Reuters journalist Wa Lone, center, talks to journalists during he is escorted by polices as they leave the court Monday, Sept. 3, 2018, in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Maria Ressa

Reporter. Indicted.

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Maria Ressa, CEO of Rappler, an online news service who has been critical of the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, gestures as she talks with reporters after posting bail at the Pasig Regional Trial Court in metropolitan Manila, Philippines, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018.

Ressa along with Rappler has been sued for tax evasion. She has declared her innocence and been freed on bail after reporting herself for arrest. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Lead image by Time Magazine via AP. Information sourced from AP News