Walter Duranty, NYT Moscow Correspondent and Propagandist for the Soviets During the Holodomor, Ukrainian Genocide

Upstaged by courageous British journalist Gareth Jones

The case of Walter Duranty (1884-1957), an Anglo-American who served as the New York Times correspondent in Russia for 14 critical years (1922-1936), should be studied by all students aspiring to be foreign correspondents. His story seems to be a cautionary tale of getting too close to your major sources, who turned out to be the criminal leadership of …