Time magazine said Tuesday it has selected "The Guardians and the War on Truth" as its 2018 Person of the Year, with four journalists and one newspaper honored.

They include Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributing columnist who was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October, and Maria Ressa, head of the Rappler news website, who has been wanted for the outlet's coverage of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.

Others are Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, both reporters of Reuters news agency who have been jailed in Myanmar for their work exposing the mass killing of Rohingya Muslims, and the staff of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland, where five employees were killed in June when a gunman broke into the newspaper's Annapolis office.

"This year we are recognizing four journalists and one news organization who have paid a terrible price to seize the challenge of this moment," Time's editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal wrote in an essay about the selection.

"They are representative of a broader fight by countless others around the world -- as of Dec. 10, at least 52 journalists have been murdered in 2018 -- who risk all to tell the story of our time," he wrote.

Time said its shortlist for the 2018 Person of the Year, meant to recognize an individual or group of people who "most influenced the news and the world" during the past year also included U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Last year, Time recognized a diverse group of "Silence Breakers" -- women and men whose public allegations of sexual misconduct across multiple industries have sparked a culture-wide re-evaluation of norms.