Gareth Jones

Gareth Jones

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 1932–1933, including the Holodomor. 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 and murdered in 1935 while investigating in Japanese-occupied Inner Mongolia; his murder is suspected by some 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 44,854 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Gareth Jones is the 23rd most popular journalist (up from 30th in 2019), the 1,216th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,674th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Journalist.