U.S. and International Media
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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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary As the Advisory Board members prepare for their June 5th U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) meeting, they should plan taking immediate actions to improve perpetually and dismally low employee morale at the Voice of…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The Washington Free Beacon reported that two more VOA Mandarin 5 award-winning veteran journalists were fired by the senior management of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and the Voice of America (VOA) over…
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BBG Watch Commentary German domestic’s public radio Deutschlandfunk reported recently on widespread accusations made by independent journalists against U.S. tax-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) that RFE/RL Tajik and Kazakh services repeated and helped to promote propaganda in…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called recently for a leadership change at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) “to perform its function in a way that is important and noble,” but the USAGM…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary It appears from multiple online searches of U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) news websites [formerly Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)] that most likely all but one media service ignored Secretary Mike Pompeo’s important speech…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The history of the Voice of America has been written around the false myth that early VOA journalists always told the truth. In fact many of the early VOA officials and broadcasters who called themselves…
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OPINION Unacceptable Risks US Government International Broadcasting: World Press Freedom Day at USAGM By The Federalist On May 3, 2019 John Lansing, the CEO of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM or, U-SAG-M as we prefer to…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary U.S. tax-funded Voice of America (VOA) has so far (as of 12:20 AM ET, Wed., May 8) ignored on its main VOA News English website a powerful pro-press freedom speech delivered Tuesday afternoon in Washington,…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary What Went Wrong with USAGM • VOA • RFE/RL? • In recent reporting from Venezuela, the Voice of America highlighted the propaganda language of the Maduro regime and Russia’s state media that tried…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) in the federal U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) has produced a report about award-winning Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova which amounted to spreading disinformation about the circumstances of her…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary American radio host and former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Blanquita Cullum who has criticized the Voice of America (VOA) for highlighting in news headlines and reports false propaganda generated by the Maduro regime…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary American radio host and former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Blanquita Cullum has criticized the Voice of America (VOA) for highlighting in news headlines and reports false propaganda generated by the Maduro regime in…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Bradley A. Thayer, Ph.D., a professor of political science at the University of Texas, San Antonio and coauthor of “How China Sees the World: Han-Centrism and the Balance of Power in International Politics,” called in…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary On April 27, 2019 Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) Executive Director Ann Noonan (2018 photo) spoke in tribute to Harry Wu, the late CUSIB Advisory Board member and founder of the Laogai Museum, and…
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