1932 Pulitzer winner is vindicated

The 1932 Pulitzer Prize awarded to a New York Times reporter accused of deliberately ignoring the forced famine in Ukraine will not be revoked, the board for the journalism awards has ruled.

“The board determined that there was not clear and convincing evidence of deliberate deception, the relevant standard in this case,” said a statement from the Pulitzer Prize Board, which met in New York on Friday.

Ukrainian groups had complained the late Walter Duranty’s reports intentionally made no mention of the 1932-1933 forced famine in Ukraine that killed as many as seven million people.

Josef Stalin's regime created the famine to force Ukrainian peasants into surrendering their land.