© 2026
NPR News, Colorado Stories
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Power has been restored to the transmitter facility serving Summit County, and our programming is back on the air. Repairs at the site are ongoing, and listeners may experience intermittent service disruptions as our partners at Summit Public Radio and TV complete restoration work. We appreciate your patience.

Facebook's Zuckerberg Is 'Time' Magazine's Person Of The Year; Good Choice?

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg; Nov. 15, 2010.
Justin Sullivan
/
Getty Images
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg; Nov. 15, 2010.

"For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives," Facebook founder Mark Zukerberg is Time's 2010 "Person of the Year," the magazine just announced.

The runners-up:

-- The Tea Party movement.

-- Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

-- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

-- The Chilean miners who survived two months deep underground.

Working off of Time's list, we wonder what everybody thinks (if you have other nominees, speak up in the comments thread):

Update at 3:45 p.m. ET:The Picture Show has a look back at some of Time's past honorees, including Charles Lindbergh, Adolf Hitler and Martin Luther King Jr.

Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

Mark Memmott is NPR's supervising senior editor for Standards & Practices. In that role, he's a resource for NPR's journalists – helping them raise the right questions as they do their work and uphold the organization's standards.