Time (magazine)

Time (officially capitalized TIME) is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. A European edition (Time Europe, formerly known as Time Atlantic) is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition (Time Asia) is based in Hong Kong. A Canadian edition (Time Canada) is based in Toronto. The South Pacific edition, covering Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands, is based in Sydney. In some advertising campaigns, the magazine has suggested that the letters TIME stand for "Today Information Means Everything."

Person of the Year

Main Article: Person of the Year

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The magazine's most famous feature over its 80 years has been the annual Person of the Year (formerly Man of the Year) cover story, in which Time recognizes the individual or group of individuals who have had the biggest effect on the year's news. Despite the title, the recipient is not necessarily an individual -- in 1983, the home computer was recognized as "machine of the year".

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In 1999 Albert Einstein was chosen by Time as Person of the Century.

Related Topics:
1999 - Albert Einstein

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Controversy has occasionally arisen due to the designation of hated figures as "Persons of the Year." The distinction is supposed to go to the person who, for good or ill, has most affected the course of the year; it is therefore not necessarily an honor or reward. In the past, such figures as Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin have been Persons of the Year. Many believe that the magazine backed down from this policy for its Person of the Year in 2001: the feeling was that the person who had most affected the course of the year was Osama bin Laden, but the editorial board weighed the policy against the risk of inciting outrage, and named Rudolph Giuliani instead.

Related Topics:
Adolf Hitler - Joseph Stalin - Osama bin Laden - Rudolph Giuliani

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