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Time Announces Shortlist of ‘2017 Person of the Year’

The official announcement comes out Dec. 6.

By Rebecca Gibian
December 4, 2017 1:03 pm
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Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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Time’s 2017 Person of the Year will be announced Wednesday morning, but the magazine announced their shortlist Monday morning on NBC’s Today. Time has picked a person or group of people who have influenced the news during the past year — for better or for worse — since 1927. This year’s shortlist includes Jeff Bezos, the Dreamers, Patty Jenkins, Kim Jong Un, Robert Mueller, Donald Trump, and more.

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