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BBG Watch Media A controversy over the Obama White House treatment of Cuban jazz musician Paquito D’Rivera has been ignored by the Voice of America (VOA) whose late music broadcaster Willis Conover had played a major role in promoting jazz…
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BBG Watch Commentary Here are a few comments on the poor quality video from Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett‘s swearing-in ceremony, speech and Q&A. The video, in which large segments during questions from the audience are so dark…
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BBG Watch Media Government Executive reporter Charles Clark noted in a recent report the appointment of Amanda Bennett to lead the Voice of America (VOA). Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Amanda Bennett was sworn in on April 18th as the 29th VOA…
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BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA), which now has new director, Amanda Bennett, is still capable of excellent, sophisticated reporting despite many examples of poor performance throughout the organization, which Ms. Bennett will hopefully deal with promptly. What…
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BBG Watch Commentary New Voice of America (VOA) director, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Amanda Bennett, impressed many VOA employees with her handling of a question from a VOA newsroom reporter when she remarked after her swearing in earlier this week that…
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BBG Watch When something goes wrong at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which happens often, it’s always somebody else’s fault. It’s never the fault of current BBG executives in BBG’s International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB). Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
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BBG Watch Commentary What Else Voice of America Employees Want Amanda Bennett To Know? Current and Former VOA Reporters Share Their Views If a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author Amanda Bennett, who was recently chosen as the new director…
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BBG Watch Media An op-ed in Digital Journal says that U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has just helped Fidel Castro promote his communist legacy in a report without one word of balance. “It would be too soon…
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OPINION: THE FEDERALIST Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information Warfare: It’s Over, We Lost BBG: Land of Delusion By The Federalist The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has done a masterful job of placing US Government…
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Federal News Radio Andre Mendez, BBG CIO and CTO “When I first came on board in 2009, every single server in this agency was controlled by the Chinese cyber army and they could have literally dropped this agency…
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BBG Watch BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE The Washington, D.C. law firm, Themis PLLC, has released additional information on its $400 million class action lawsuit, Lee, et al. v. United States of America, 1:15-cv-01555-C, which it filed on December 21, 2015 in…
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BBG Watch Commentary According to Secretary Kerry, “Today’s Broadcasting Board of Governors is not the BBG of a few years ago.” The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) — with the notable absence of two members — met today with U.S….
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BBG Watch The video of the swearing-in ceremony for new VOA Director Amanda Bennett on April 18, 2016 has been posted a day later on YouTube by the VOA Public Relations Office. The video includes this introduction from VOA: …
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BBG Watch Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Amanda Bennett was sworn in today as the 29th Director of the Voice of America (VOA). SEE: Employees don’t want new VOA director Amanda Bennett co-opted by dysfunctional management, BBG Watch, April 18, 2016 …
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BBG Watch Commentary Amanda Bennett has been named director of the government-owned broadcaster Voice of America (VOA), Ron Nixon reported in one of “National Briefing” short news items in The New York Times on April 15, 2016. The Washington Post…
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BBG Watch Commentary The first address by new Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett was generally well received by employees, but many fear that she may be co-opted by Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) and VOA’s dysfunctional and failed…
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