Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Leaked Document Names Mainstream Journalists Taking Pay-For-Play Trips To China

Outlets including The New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, NPR, PBS, Newsweek, Time, Foreign Affairs, USA Today, Financial Times, and more...

Jul 28, 2026

An exclusive investigation into archived records from a pro-China influence group reveals a years-long propaganda pipeline targeting senior figures at The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, NPR and other major outlets. A leaked internal report shows organizers privately celebrated changing how the journalists viewed, wrote about and edited coverage of China.

A years-long Chinese influence operation quietly targeted the people responsible for deciding how Americans understood Communist China.

An investigation by this publication identified at least 26 prominent American journalists, editors and broadcasters brought to China through a delegation program run by the Committee of 100, an organization repeatedly linked to figures and institutions inside the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front. The United Front is China’s military-grade influence network described by U.S. officials as working to “co-opt and neutralize sources of opposition” to the CCP with various tactics including pay-for-play trips.

The targets included managing editors, editorial-page chiefs, bureau leaders, nationally syndicated columnists and influential broadcasters from: 

https://nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/exc-leaked-document-names-mainstream

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