The New York Times has published and deleted hundreds of advertorials stemming from a partnership with a mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party.
The Washington Free Beacon reported on Tuesday that the New York Times and other major U.S. news outlets have been paid millions to share advertorials from China Daily, a Chinese state-run news publication. A New York Times spokesperson said the publication’s move to delete the content quietly, which it hasn’t published since 2019, was based on a decision to stop running ads from state-run media.
“We made the decision at the beginning of this year to stop accepting branded content ads from state run media, which includes China Daily,” a spokeswoman for the newspaper said.
A new financial disclosure from China Daily also revealed that both the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal were paid more than $100,000 per month to publish the advertorials in their print editions. China Daily has also paid for space in the Los Angeles Times, the Seattle Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Houston Chronicle, the Boston Globe, and other regional newspapers.
The New York Times has published some of the most comprehensive accounts of human rights abuses in China.
“That reporting has finally had an effect — at the New York Times — and it no longer supports covering up the CCP’s barbarity. I hope the other outlets follow suit and start putting American values over Communist bribes,” Rep. Jim Banks, a member of Congress’s China task force, responded to the paper’s decision.
