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BBG Watch Commentary At the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) open meeting last Thursday, the board voted the voted to create a Special Committee on the Voice of America in the 21st Century. The committee will be chaired by BBG…
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BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Jeff Shell opened the open board meeting last Thursday in Washington by highlighting the dangers the agency’s journalists face on a daily basis. JEFF SHELL: “We are operating in media environments…
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BBG Watch Commentary Chinese writer and democracy activist Wei Jingsheng, who had spent a total of 18 years as a political prisoner in China, addressed the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) open board meeting as a member of the public….
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BBG Watch Commentary At the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) open meeting last week, BBG Chairman Jeff Shell praised Radio Free Asia (RFA) for its innovative satellite television streaming of Twitter feeds which are banned by the Chinese government. Shell…
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BBG Watch Commentary At the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) open board meeting last Thursday in Washington, BBG Chairman Jeff Shell suggested that after focusing on structural issues under his chairmanship, the BBG will now focus more on program content…
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BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America Information War Lost: Storytelling By The Federalist The most recent meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) was held on October 30, 2014. Observations and Comments On its face, the opening meetings of…
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BBG Watch Commentary “Gary from Tallahassee,” who some suspect is a former senior Voice of America (VOA) English Newsroom correspondent highly respected by his former colleagues for his journalistic skills, has criticized a recent VOA report as flawed in terms…
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BBG Watch Commentary The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) Executive Director Ann Noonan spoke at the October 30, 2014 Broadcasting Board of Governors meeting as a member of the public and noted some of the areas of…
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BBG Watch Commentary Former Voice of America (VOA) deputy director Alan Heil told Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) members at an open board meeting last Thursday that U.S. taxpayer-funded VOA is not dysfunctional. Many critics, including members of Congress of…
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BBG Watch Commentary Quoting BBG Watch, its anonymous commentator, The Federalist, and a statement by Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) Executive Director, Ann Noonan, Government Executive reports on a short-lived proposal of Voice of America (VOA) senior…
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BBG Watch Commentary The video of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) open board meeting on October 30, 2014 includes comments by BBG Chair Jeff Shell, BBG Governor Michael Meehan, BBG Governor Matt Armstrong, Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB…
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BBG Watch Commentary A very informative report on the expansion of the Kremlin’s media outreach abroad was posted online by Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). BBG Watch reposts it in full as a public service with a link…
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BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors Board meeting will start at 9:30 AM on Thursday. If you have not registered to attend it and speak as a member of the public, we hope you can still watch it…
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BBG Watch Guest Commentary BBG Watch occasionally publishes guest commentaries. This one is from a current Voice of America journalist who prefers to remain anonymous. Views expressed here are only those of the authors and not of BBG Watch, its…
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BBG Watch Commentary The following notice was emailed to Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) federal employees, including Voice of America (VOA) journalists, by the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), the BBG’s management arm in Washington, DC. From: IBB Notices Admin Sent:…
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BBG Watch Commentary Mismanaged U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) was once again “out to lunch” after business hours in Washington, DC when an unmanned NASA-contracted supply rocket, Antares, bound for the International Space Station, exploded shortly after its launch…
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