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BBG Watch Commentary “Congress is calling for an investigation into Voice of America’s (VOA) Persian language news service as a result of what they say is the station’s systemic pro-Iran bias and cozy ties to the anti-American ruling regime, according…
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BBG Watch Commentary The initial Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) results from the 2014 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) show further declines in employee morale and increases in negative employee perceptions of the agency’s leadership despite senior management’s attempts to…
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BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch reposts a commentary by AFGE Local 1812. It deals with employment of private contractors by officials of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). The Office of Inspector General (OIG) determined that executives, who were and…
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BBG Watch Commentary The International Republican Institute announced that its delegation to observe Ukraine’s October 26, 2014 parliamentary elections, will be led by Ambassador Victor Ashe, former United States Ambassador to Poland and former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member,…
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BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors Director of Communications and External Affairs, Lynne Weil, will leave the BBG to become Public Affairs Director at the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. The U.S. Global Leadership Coalition news release said that “Weil…
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BBG Watch Commentary THE WORLD SPEAKS OUT is a new page on Radio Free Asia (RFA) website showing the world’s solidarity with the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. Thanks to RFA, Voice of America, BBC and other Western media using…
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BBG Watch Commentary Publicly-funded U.S. multimedia broadcasters serving international audiences, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and the Voice of America (VOA), have launched a new 30-minute daily Russian-language TV news program for audiences in countries bordering Russia. According…
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BBG Watch Commentary Not everything at the Voice of America (VOA) is doom and gloom despite serious management problems at the U.S. taxpayer-funded media organization serving overseas audiences. While VOA English Newsroom and VOA English news website are in a…
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BBG Watch Commentary Nothing illustrates better the decline of the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) as a news organization charged by law (VOA Charter) to “present the policies of the United States clearly and effectively” than VOA’s use on…
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BBG Watch Commentary The Epoch Times, a newspaper published by the multi-language, international media organisation associated with the Falun Gong, has an article in its English-language edition on the controversial handling of Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts to China in…
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BBG Watch Commentary Senior bureaucrats at the Voice of America (VOA) and the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) have been able to hold on to their six-figure, full time government jobs, expand IBB bureaucratic and program…
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BBG Watch Commentary Interacting with an advocacy group that has been critical of certain Broadcasting Board of Governors policies, Andrew Lack met this week with members of the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting in New York, according to a report on the…
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BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE News and Commentary Journalist and media executive Andrew Lack, who had been selected by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to be the agency’s CEO, met in New York Tuesday with members of the NGO Committee for…
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BBG Watch Commentary Two key U.S. senators called Sunday for a “de-escalation” of the one week standoff between the authorities in Hong Kong and pro-democracy protesters, saying “good faith” negotiations were key to breaking the stalemate over election reforms for…
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