Walter Duranty

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Walter Duranty (25 May 1884 – 3 October 1957) was an Anglo-American journalist who served as Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times for fourteen years (1922–1936) following the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War (1917–1923). Though Duranty was widely regarded in his day, and received the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for his "profound and intimate comprehension of conditions in Russia," he was later criticized for repeating Soviet propaganda and downplaying the horrors of Stalinism. In particular, beginning in 1990 there were calls for the Pulitzer Board to revoke Duranty's prize for his coverage of the Soviet famine of 1930–1933. The board declined to revoke the award and in 2003 said the articles which it examined in making the award did not contain "clear and convincing evidence of deliberate deception".

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