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Walter Duranty (* 25. Mai 1884 in Liverpool; † 3. Oktober 1957 in Orlando, Florida) war ein britischer Journalist und Pulitzer-Preisträger, dessen stalinismus freundliche Berichterstattung in den 1930er Jahren kontroverses Aufsehen erregte.
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).
- Journalist
- 25 May 1884, Liverpool, England
- Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- 3 October 1957 (aged 73), Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Walter Duranty was a New York Times reporter who covered up Stalin's crimes by denying the existence of famines in Ukraine in the 1930s. He was part of an intellectual class spellbound by Soviet economic policy and won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Russia in 1931. He was criticized by Muggeridge and other critics for his lies and complicity.
8. Mai 2022 · In 1932, The New York Times' Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for stories defending Soviet policies that led to the deaths of millions of Ukrainians. The Times disavows his work but not...
The New York Times Company apologizes for awarding the 1932 Pulitzer Prize to Walter Duranty, a journalist who covered the Soviet Union under Stalin and was widely criticized for his underestimation of Stalin's brutality and his reliance on official sources. The Times notes that Duranty's articles were based on cabled dispatches that passed Soviet censorship and that he did not interview ordinary Russians, and that he was not a reliable source of information.
Walter Duranty of The New York Times was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for his series of dispatches on Russia, especially the working out of the Five Year Plan. Read his insightful reports on the Soviet Union's economic and political transformation under Stalin.
After more than six months of study and deliberation, the Pulitzer Prize Board has decided it will not revoke the foreign reporting prize awarded in 1932 to Walter Duranty of The New York Times.
