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Transcript: Analysis: Pulitzer Prize committee reviews award given to New York Times journalist Walter Durante 70 years ago
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- June 11, 2003
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NEAL CONAN
NPR Talk of the Nation
06-11-2003
Analysis: Pulitzer Prize committee reviews award given to New York Times journalist Walter Durante 70 years ago
Host: NEAL CONAN
Time: 3:00-4:00 PM
NEAL CONAN, host:
The Pulitzer Prize committee is reviewing an award given to The New York Times more than 70 years ago. In 1932, The Times' Moscow bureau chief, Walter Durante, was awarded journalism's most prestigious award for his reporting on the Soviet economy. But in the intervening 70 years, Durante has been exposed as an apologist for the Stalin regime, for deliberately ignoring the manmade famine in the Ukraine that killed millions. Last month, the Pulitzer committee said it was reviewing a ...