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Moises Saman photographing Shahidul Alam on Dec. 5 on his Dhaka, Bangladesh, rooftop

JOURNALISM IS A TEAM SPORT, THE SAYING GOES, and that’s particularly true at TIME, where our co-founder Henry Luce helped pioneer the notion of “group journalism” nearly a century ago. To begin the process of choosing the Person of the Year, the entire staff gathers each fall—in person and patched in

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