Jones' rebuttal of Duranty and articles by Malcolm Muggeridge on the genocide are here.
Stuart Kahan in "The Wolf of the Kremlin" writes how Kaganovich, the man Stalin called "My Himmler" was encouraged by articles in the New York Times:
He (Kaganovich) now saw himself being quoted more and more in Pravda, and then in a Polish paper and even in an article from Paris, and finally his name appeared in the prestigious New York Times. ...He looked again at The New York Times of January 2, 1931, and he was pleased with what he read. He was referred to as "a new and energetic member of the Communist Party Politburo."
The papers were full of Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich. He was delighted when the staid New York Times once again spoke of him in long articles:
The reputation of Lazar M. Kaganovich, for conceiving largescale projects and accomplishing [sic] in Russia, almost overshadows that of Joseph Stalin himself . Mr. Kaganovich is credited with having originated the idea of machine-tractor stations, dominated by Commissar agents, for guiding the collectivized peasants, stimulating the agricultural output, and, in brief, consolidating the "agricultural revolution" effect by collectivization. ...