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Gareth Jones

1905 - 1935

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Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones (13 August 1905 – 12 August 1935) was a Welsh journalist who in March 1933 first reported in the Western world, without equivocation and under his own name, the existence of the Soviet famine of 1930–1933, including the Holodomor and the Asharshylyk. Jones had reported anonymously in The Times in 1931 on starvation in Soviet Ukraine and Southern Russia, and, after his third visit to the Soviet Union, issued a press release under his own name in Berlin on 29 March 1933 describing the widespread famine in detail. Reports by Malcolm Muggeridge, writing in 1933 as an anonymous correspondent, appeared contemporaneously in the Manchester Guardian; his first anonymous article specifying famine in the Soviet Union was published on 25 March 1933. After being banned from re-entering the Soviet Union, Jones was kidnapped by Chinese bandits and murdered in 1935 while investigating in Japanese-occupied Inner Mongolia; his murder is suspected by some, albeit without any evidence, to have been committed by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gareth Jones has received more than 45,886 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Gareth Jones is the 21st most popular journalist (up from 23rd in 2019), the 1,134th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,212th in 2019) and the most popular British Journalist.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.17

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  • 2.39

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Gareth Jones ranks 21 out of 196. Before him are Victor Noir, W. Eugene Smith, Alexander Berkman, Lee Miller, Endre Ady, and Aenne Burda. After him are Jeremy Clarkson, Tucker Carlson, Jean-Marie Balestre, Edgar Snow, Marcelo H. del Pilar, and W. T. Stead.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Gareth Jones ranks 70. Before him are Barnett Newman, Piet Hein, Sada Abe, Wolfram Sievers, Pedro Petrone, and Clara Bow. After him are Guy Mollet, Erwin Chargaff, Federica Montseny, Takeo Fukuda, André Jolivet, and Chen Yun. Among people deceased in 1935, Gareth Jones ranks 46. Before him are Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, Magnus Hirschfeld, Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, Ma Barker, Kurt Tucholsky, and Abraham Isaac Kook. After him are Jean Béraud, Valerian Kuybyshev, William Kennedy Dickson, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Bernhard Schmidt, and Edoardo Agnelli.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gareth Jones ranks 1,134 out of 8,785. Before him are Alexander II of Scotland (1198), John Pople (1925), Idris Elba (1972), Harold Lowe (1882), Vita Sackville-West (1892), and John Stewart Bell (1928). After him are Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689), Adrian Lyne (1941), William Bligh (1754), Angus Deaton (1945), Charles Bell (1774), and Warren Hastings (1732).

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Among JOURNALISTS In United Kingdom

Among journalists born in United Kingdom, Gareth Jones ranks 1. After him are Jeremy Clarkson (1960), W. T. Stead (1849), Christopher Hitchens (1949), William Wilson (1844), Piers Morgan (1965), Don McCullin (1935), Martin Parr (1952), Murray Walker (1923), Carol Thatcher (1953), Malcolm Muggeridge (1903), and Malcolm Campbell (1885).

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