U.S. and International Media
BBG – USAGM Media Commentary An article in The Daily Caller from reporter Shelby Talcott reveals that a Voice of America (VOA) senior-level editor whose promotion was reportedly announced to staff earlier this year in a highly congratulatory e-mail…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary BBG – USAGM has confirmed that Jamie Fly, a senior fellow and director of the Future of Geopolitics and Asia programs at The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), will be the next…
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BBG – USAGM Commentary “VOA says that it is ‘uncertain if or how we might approach it’“ In comments to The Daily Caller, Doug Bernard, identified as Voice of America Press Freedom Editor, explained why U.S. tax-funded media outlet,…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The New York Times “New Scandals Rock Government’s Foreign Broadcasting Service” was the New York Times article headline on July 8, 2019, but the story, just as the earlier VOA report, had only…
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BBG Watch – USAGM commentary In a much delayed and highly misleading message to employees of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), CEO John Lansing used half-truths and omitted many material facts to avoid making an apology for hiring…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Several women who have been longtime employees of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), previously known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), are telling their colleagues that they were passed up for promotions…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The independent and nonpartisan NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB.org) has appealed to Senator Marco Rubio to investigate any new plans of the management of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) for U.S….
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary In a constant stream of management and programming scandals affecting America’s foreign media outreach in recent years, U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO John Lansing’s former right-hand man pled guilty several days ago to…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary In an affront to taxpayers and his U.S. government agency employees, John F. Lansing (@johnlansing), the embattled CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM, is still listed as a Twitter follower of his…
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OPINION Call It Corrupt By The Federalist The US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) or U-SAG-M, as we like to call it, formerly known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), has long established itself as one of the worst…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Haroon Ullah, who was brought on board at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) by CEO John F. Lansing and served as his right-hand man for strategic planning until agency employees exposed Ullah’s fraudulent…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Since 2018, BBG-USAGM Watch has investigated the case of Haroon Ullah, one of the key executives at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) who pled guilty last week to defrauding the government, but in…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Several former and current employees said independently of each other that the senior United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) management’s claim of responding immediately to initial concerns they expressed to senior agency executives about…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The U.S. Department of Justice announced in a June 27, 2019 press release that a former senior official in the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) has pled guilty to stealing government money. Previously USAGM…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary More than a year ago U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO John F. Lansing, a holdover official from the Obama administration, received a warning from an independent journalist and international media expert about public…
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OPINION Ann Noonan, Executive Director of the independent NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB.org) spoke in Washington, DC at the U.S. Agency for Global Media’s (USAGM) Board of Governors open meeting on June 5, 2019. She discussed a continuing…
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