U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Kenneth Weinstein opened the BBG board meeting on June 6, 2018 by welcoming Heather Nauert, acting Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, to her first BBG open meeting…
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BBG Watch Commentary “Board Chairman Kenneth Weinstein thanked outgoing Deputy Director Jeff Trimble for his 21 years of dedication and service in U.S. international media and presented him with a career achievement award, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
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BBG Watch Media “For close to a decade now, diplomacy has been used to promote liberal causes and lifestyles. This use of taxpayer money does not serve U.S. national interests and must stop,” Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The…
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BBG Watch Guest Commentary This report was submitted by a Voice of America (VOA) journalist who wants to remain anonymous. VOA Is Now VOC (Voice of China), Many Chinese Say By Anonymous VOA Journalist On the 29th anniversary…
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BBG Watch Commentary Amid upheaval and controversy caused by the Voice of America (VOA) senior management’s treatment of Mandarin Service programs and journalists, the independent NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) continues to focus on human rights…
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BBG Watch Commentary Sheema Kalbasi, who tweets as @IranianWoman, is a U.S.-based Iranian poet, filmmaker, rights activist who had worked for UNHCR and Center for Refugees in Pakistan and UNA Denmark. She is one of many pro-democracy Iranians banned in…
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BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE President Donald Trump has announced his intent to nominate Michael Pack to be the Chief Executive Officer of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) for a term of three years. A statement released by the White House…
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BBG Watch Commentary With increasing frequency and frustration, anti-regime Iran scholars based in the West, as well as anti-regime activists in Iran, are posting highly critical comments on social media about the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) management of U.S….
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OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Digital Meltdown: The Perfect Storm US Government International Media Information War: Lost By The Federalist As reported by Broadcasting Board of Governors employees in BBG Watch, the agency’s primary digital production…
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BBG Watch Commentary Coming back from the dead does not happen often. When Russian opposition journalist Arkady Babchenko first reported dead by the Ukrainian authorities is later declared by them to be alive, it immediately became a big news story…
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BBG Watch Commentary One week later, as of Friday, the digital DALET system crisis at the U.S. taxpayer-funded and U.S. government-run Voice of America (VOA) continues with ongoing apologies by a dysfunctional management for the “debilitating” situation. All of this…
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OPINION North Korea Part Two Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost By The Federalist With the Donald Trump-Kim Jong-Un U.S.-North Korea summit meeting now called off by President Trump at least for the time…
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BBG Watch In Their Own Words Voice of America (VOA) Director Amanda Bennett has remarked on the catastrophic failure of her U.S. taxpayer-funded media outlet’s digital processing and storage system. She shares the responsibility for keeping the U.S. government media…
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BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE from Voice of America Reporters The Dalet system used by Voice of America (VOA) reporters to receive, process, store and transmit digital data for VOA video, TV, radio and online content is once again experiencing one…
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BBG Watch Commentary In a highly critical op-ed published in the English language Pakistani newspaper Daily Times, Peshawar based independent journalist Abdur Rauf Yousafzai decries what he and others in Pakistan see as dishonorable behavior of “Prague based policy makers”…
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