From Dec 30, 2017 NY Times:
During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelation to Australia’s top diplomat in Britain: Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.
About three weeks earlier, Mr. Papadopoulos had been told that Moscow had thousands of emails that would embarrass Mrs. Clinton, apparently stolen in an effort to try to damage her campaign.
Exactly how much Mr. Papadopoulos said that night at the Kensington Wine Rooms with the Australian, Alexander Downer, is unclear. But two months later, when leaked Democratic emails began appearing online, Australian officials passed the information about Mr. Papadopoulos to their American counterparts, according to four current and former American and foreign officials with direct knowledge of the Australians’ role.
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Their bios
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Mazetti
Mark Mazzetti (born May 13, 1974) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist for the New York Times. He currently serves as the Washington Investigations Editor for the Times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_LaFraniere
Sharon Veronica LaFraniere (born June 15, 1957) is an American journalist who has covered southern Africa and China for The New York Times. Since returning to the United States, she has covered domestic topics extensively including military hospitals, gun violence, and the roll-out of healthcare.gov.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Apuzzo
Matt Apuzzo (born c. 1978) is an American journalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 2012. In 2013, Apuzzo co-wrote a book with Adam Goldman called Enemies Within.