U.S. and International Media
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 Commentary Three Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service journalists are still on forced paid leave imposed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and VOA senior management after the Guo Wengui live whistleblower interview which was shortened on…
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BBG Watch Media Commentary Voice of America (VOA) journalist Dr. Sasha Gong, one of the three journalists who have been on administration leave for over a year and who are facing a threat of termination by VOA regarding the senior…
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BBG Watch Commentary Bennett Denies There was Chinese Pressure on Guo Wengui VOA Interview Voice of America (VOA) Director Amanda Bennett on Wednesday, April 25, 2018, denied there was pressure from the Chinese government on VOA…
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OPINION BBG Watch Guest Commentary History’s Mysteries: Those Who Listen in the Dark (解密时刻：偷听“敌台” 美国之音 英文字幕版) 32,323 views as of April 19, 2018 魏京生：“那个时候开始，悄悄地在家里头，收音机打开慢慢找找找，找着了。”Starting at that time, at home in secret, I would turn on the radio and slowly turn…
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BBG Watch Commentary Young journalists, most of them women, from countries without free media are criticizing senior management of U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and its managing U.S. federal agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG),…
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BBG Watch Media Commentary On April 19, 2017, reportedly on orders of the senior management of U.S. taxpayer-funded, U.S. government-run Voice of America (VOA) led by VOA Director Amanda Bennett and her deputy Sandy Sugawara, VOA Mandarin Service journalists were…
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BBG Watch Commentary Remarks to the Chinese American staff made this week by Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett, who — according to numerous reports — had ordered the shortening of the April 19, 2017 VOA interview with Chinese…
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BBG Watch Commentary The independent and nonpartisan NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) has a press release on the need for a congressional investigation of Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and Voice of America (VOA) upper management…
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OPINION BBG Comedy Club Part Two: The Road Show US International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist In our first installment in this series, we dealt with a Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
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BBG Watch Commentary The independent, non-partisan NGO, Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) has reacted to the news that the person appointed by Voice of America’s (VOA) senior management as VOA China Branch Chief does not speak nor read Mandarin….
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BBG Watch Commentary Ann Noonan, Executive Director of the independent NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) spoke at the open board meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) held in Washington, DC on March 14, 2018….
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BBG Watch Commentary According to the announcement posted on the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) website, the Broadcasting Board of Governors will meet on March 14, at 1:00 pm at its Washington, D.C., headquarters to review programming to Russia, China…
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BBG Watch Commentary Among those disagreeing with Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and Voice of America (VOA) officials is former Chinese political prisoner, human rights activist Zhang Lin who has recently returned to the United States after being imprisoned by…
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BBG Watch Commentary UK-based award-winning investigative reporter Shahida Tulaganova joined another award-winning journalist Khadija Ismayilova, a former political prisoner in Azerbaijan, in criticizing the management of their former employer, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) for killing journalism, creativity…
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BBG Watch Commentary Ted Lipien, a former VOA acting associate director who is one of the co-founders and supporters of BBG Watch, has an op-ed in today’s Washington Examiner on the Voice of America coverage of the Iranian protests and…
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