Snubbed by Radio Liberty management, Paris-based journalist interviewed by Russian independent Rain TV (Dozhd)
BBG Watch Commentary After the terror attacks in Paris, a Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Russian…
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing: Options for Reforming U.S. Overseas Broadcasting
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing: Options for Reforming U.S. Overseas Broadcasting Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 Time: 02:30…
Voice of America with minimal Paris terror coverage had dismal social media engagement compared to BBC, DW, and RT
BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) offered this weekend its international audiences minimal coverage…
Radio Liberty bans Paris terror report from its former Russian correspondent
BBG Watch Commentary A former Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) staffer and investigative reporter Anastasia Kirilenko…
Barbarians in the Headquarters of Voice of America? – Cal State Professor condemns ‘secret visit’ to VOA of Ethiopian regime officials
BBG Watch Media An unprecedented late evening and apparently secret meeting of high-level officials representing the highly repressive…
OPINION: Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War?
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War? What Information War? The Agency Is Dead – Unprecedented Irrelevance…
Voice of America ignores White House statement on Holodomor genocide in 1930s Ukraine, as does RFE/RL
BBG Watch Commentary Someone worked at the White House this Saturday, November 7, but not at the U.S.…
Called ‘traitors’ and ‘Jews’ by Putin supporters, Radio Liberty journalists complain of mistreatment by U.S.-hired management
BBG Watch Commentary WARNING: This post contains a letter by an anonymous Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty…
VOA Charter ignored, says former Voice of America director
BBG Watch Commentary We would like to offer this commentary from BBG Watch as an introduction to highlighting…
Matt Armstrong calls Voice of America a ‘fundamental counter to propaganda’, exaggerates successes, ignores failures
BBG Watch Commentary A Republican member of the bipartisan Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the federal agency in…
Voice of America French to Africa service removes sex story after BBG Watch post
BBG Watch Commentary New Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO John Lansing must be a reader of BBG…
Lost Letters To Stalin Discovered in Moldovan Archive | RFE/RL
BBG Watch Media Unique programming from U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) helps to counter…
Florida couple having sex while facing arrest number one U.S. news story on Voice of America French site for five days
BBG Watch Commentary UPDATE: After BBG Watch posts were published and after the sex-before-jail report stayed on the…
On the eve of Town Hall meeting, BBG employees present a plea to new CEO John Lansing
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE On the eve of the Town Hall to Introduce CEO John Lansing, scheduled for Tuesday,…
Faire l’amour is top U.S. news today on Voice of America French
BBG Watch Commentary UPDATE: After BBG Watch posts were published and after the sex-before-jail report stayed on the…
Voice of America and the Russian Bear
BBG Watch Satire A bear broke into a shopping mall in Russia this week, apparently looking for food.…
Voice of America irrelevant on social media during Democratic presidential debate
BBG Watch Commentary America is calling, but is anyone looking at Voice of America news content on social…
Russian court rules against award-winning human rights reporter in employment dispute with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
BBG Watch Commentary Sources in Moscow told BBG Watch that a Russian judge took only about five minutes…
CUTTING THROUGH THE FOG: AN AUTUMN UPDATE
BBG Watch BBG Watch offers a wide range of commentaries on current issues in U.S. international media outreach,…
Russian human rights leader defends dismissed Radio Liberty human rights reporter
BBG Watch BBG Watch has learned that longtime Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Russian Service human…
Voice of America should not do away with some types of breaking news coverage, a listener abroad says
BBG Watch A Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) staffer provided this comment to BBG Watch regarding the issue…
Voice of America Reporter Jim Malone Against VOA Journalists Countering Violent Extremism
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America Reporter Jim Malone Against VOA Journalists Countering Violent Extremism [Click HERE to…
BBG Board Meeting, October 8, 2015
BBG Watch VIDEOS BBG PRESS RELEASE BBG WATCH NOTES We recommend a look at the response by Conniff…
U.S. hero stabbed – Voice of America late again and out-reported by BBC
BBG Media So . . . . here is a story that is not an earthshaker, but is…
BBG and VOA can’t do the same thing and hope for a different outcome
BBG Watch Media Following reports in the Washington Post and the Washington Times, FierceGovernment site noted that in…
Voice of America Information War: Lost Beyond Saving, IF…
OPINION Voice of America Information War: Lost Beyond Saving, IF… By The Federalist Results from the 2015 Federal…
Voice of America VOA English news has 4 times fewer Twitter followers than Edward Snowden
BBG Watch Voice of America’s main VOA English News Twitter account with less than 300,000 followers is four…
Tardy Voice of America Oregon news report gets zero comments
BBG Watch Media As of 2:15 a.m. Monday, October 4, 2015 There are still no readers’ comments for…
Former Voice of America staffers appalled by VOA’s poor news coverage
BBG Watch The comments below were posted online by former Voice of America (VOA) staffers. It has been…
Voice of America late and short on Oregon shooting
BBG Watch Commentary “Here we go again. So, Oregon shooting is plastered all over BBC, on home page,…
Washington Times mentions BBG 2015 FEVS results
BBG Watch Media The Washington Times reported in brief on BBG’s 2015 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) results…
BBG Global Employee Satisfaction FEVS Result: 36 Out of 37
BBG Watch "What this shows is that the agency is essentially within the same range that it has…
WP: Survey shows small gains in federal employee morale, though it continues to fall in some agencies
BBG Watch Media 2015 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey A Washington Post columnist reports that the Broadcasting Board of…
Voice of America fails to notice Russian propaganda on WWII history
BBG Watch Commentary Russian ambassador to Poland has implied that Poland, not Hitler and Stalin, was responsible for…
Voice of America late and short on Boehner
BBG Watch Analysis By A Former Voice of America Correspondent BBC World beat VOA on the Boehner resignation,…
High-paying bureaucratic positions multiply at BBG
BBG Watch Commentary The embattled government agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), has a bloated bureaucracy which…
‘A Lie isn’t an Alternative Point of View,’ Lithuanian Foreign Minister Reminds the West
‘A Lie isn’t an Alternative Point of View,’ Lithuanian Foreign Minister Reminds the West Paul Goble Staunton, September…
Employee morale at Broadcasting Board of Governors declined under new leadership
BBG Watch According to the Partnership for Public Service, which uses data from the Office of Personnel Management’s…
Ben Carson urges Voice of America to wage information warfare against ISIS
BBG Watch Media Leave it to Ben Carson, once way back in the pack among GOP presidential candidates,…
How BBG Officials Failed To Get Khadija Ismayilova Released
BBG Watch Media This Washington Post article may explain why Khadija Ismayilova was not released from prison despite…
Domestic news distribution was bad news for VOA
BBG Watch Commentary Not Knowing Its Own History The federal agency in charge of U.S. international media outreach…
BBC enters Putin’s media war – POLITICO
BBG Watch Media James Panichi and Alex Spence report in Politico Europe Edition that “To counter Kremlin crackdown,…
BBC Monitoring – How TV propaganda is affecting Russian society
BBG Watch Media According to BBC Monitoring, Russian TV’s relentless propaganda onslaught during the Ukraine crisis has turned…
Voice of America gets an exclusive interview with Ukraine’s President Poroshenko
BBG Watch Media BBG Watch is reposting the Voice of America (VOA) report based on VOA’s exclusive interview…
Voice of America does better on Malala story compared to 2013, gets exclusive interview with Ukraine’s president
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice America did a much better job covering Malala Yousafzai’s visit to Washington…
John Lansing Sworn In As BBG CEO and Director, Starts Sept. 14
BBG Watch The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) confirmed that the paperwork and hiring process for John Lansing…
Voice of America ignores Ambassador Power’s statement on BBG’s imprisoned journalist Khadija Ismayilova
BBG Watch Media When the Voice of America (VOA) reported Tuesday online on the launching of the U.S.…
Great Scott! Isn’t This Charmin? – An RFE/RL Satire
Our colleagues at Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty show their journalistic creativity, especially when they are under…
BBG Denounces Sentencing Of Azeri Journalist Khadija Ismayilova
BBG Watch Commentary According to a Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) today’s press release expressing “outrage and dismay…
RFE/RL building in Prague without toilet paper, cleaning company did not get paid
BBG Watch A new management crisis at Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), a U.S. government-funded media…