For the first time, the TIME Person of the Year award is moving to YouTube. The 2021 reveal is set to premiere at 7:30 AM ET on Mon.
Dec. 13 on TIME’s YouTube channel,The move to the net is a break with past protocol, which typically saw a broadcast network make the announcement.
NBC most recently broke the news on the Today show.Person of the Year (which was called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue that profiles a person, a group, an idea, or an object that, “for better or for worse… has done the most to influence the events of the year”.
The selection is made solely by the magazine’s editors.That has led to some controversial choices in the past, including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev
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