Walter Duranty, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Walter Duranty

American journalist

Date of Birth: 25-May-1884

Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 03-Oct-1957

Profession: journalist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Walter Duranty (May 25, 1884 – October 3, 1957) was a Liverpool-born Anglo-American journalist who served as the Moscow Bureau Chief of The New York Times for fourteen years (1922–1936) following the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War (1918–1921). In 1932 Duranty received a Pulitzer Prize for a series of reports about the Soviet Union, eleven of which were published in June 1931.
He was criticized for his subsequent denial of widespread famine (1932–1933) in the USSR, most particularly the famine in Ukraine.
Years later, there were calls to revoke his Pulitzer.
In 1990, The New York Times, which submitted his works for the prize in 1932, wrote that his later articles denying the famine constituted "some of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper."