Various employees of The New York Times previously worked for the China Daily, a Communist Party-controlled English-language newspaper. In recent years, China Daily has paid tens of millions of dollars to U.S. media outlets to publish Beijing-approved propaganda content.
National Pulse found that current New York Times employees who have worked for official Communist media include Jonah Kessel, director of photography at The New York Times; Diarmuid McDermott, a current editor and designer at The New York Times; and Alex Marshall, a European cultural reporter. culture journalist Alex Marshall, among others.
Kessel, who was creative director of China Daily from July 2009 to November 2010, tweeted that working for the Chinese Communist Party sometimes has its “benefits. He also mentioned that he was “excited” to start the role, which included “redesigning” the CCP’s “propaganda weapons.
In several posts, he revealed that he was “working” for the official Communist Party media and was “getting paid.
In November 2009, Kessel also tweeted, “When you are asked to describe where you work, if the first word that comes to mind is ‘harmony #China,’ then you know you are working for the People’s Republic of China (CCP). “
According to McDermott’s LinkedIn profile and personal website information, he worked as an editor and designer for the China Daily. Hong Kong for eight years, from November 2012 to November 2020. He held the same position at The New York Times last year and is still based in Hong Kong.
He revamped China Daily’s Asia Weekly, a publication where, according to his bio, his work involved “copy editing; rewriting original copy; designing layouts and graphics; sourcing news stories and images; developing and maintaining web presence across multiple platforms; and outputting web pages for printers across the region.
According to the report, Marshall was employed as an editor at the China Daily from 2003 to 2004.
For years, The New York Times has sought to expand its access to the Chinese market and has received millions of dollars in advertising revenue from the Communist Party’s state-owned media.
U.S. Justice Department records from last year show that the China Daily paid U.S. media companies nearly $19 million in advertising and printing costs over the past four years.
Newspapers such as The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal published paid supplements produced by China Daily with pro-Beijing propaganda content.
Department of Justice records show that the media outlet, which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, paid $50,000 to the New York Times for the advertisements.
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