BLOATED BUREAUCRACY
BBG Watch Commentary Two recent articles posted on the website of the Broadcasting Board of Governors’s (BBG) employee…
Richard Stengel leaving Time for State Department public diplomacy job with duties at BBG
BBG Watch Commentary Politico and The New York Times reported that Richard Stengel, the top editor of Time…
Voice of America’s amateur hour on Obama’s Syria speech
BBG Watch Commentary Let’s face it: Voice of America’s (VOA) news reporting and management structure are completely broken.…
BBG Watch – Two Million Hits Since Launch
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch, our little news and media freedom advocacy website, launched in September 2011…
Zero online visitors’ comments for VOA on Obama speech on Syria, Al Jazeera shows 355, Russia Today 97
BBG Watch Commentary As of 10:45 AM Washington, DC time, the Voice of America (VOA) English website still…
VOA ‘Featured Video’ this morning still shows monkeys instead of Obama’s speech on Syria, no U.S. reactions piece to speech
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) “Featured Video” on the English news website this morning is still…
BBG Watch site only 2,000 short of 2 million hits, reaching 2 million before morning expected
BBG Watch Commentary Since the two million hits mark for the BBG Watch website is likely to be…
On Obama’s Syria address, Voice of America far behind Russia Today, BBC and Al Jazeera in social media outreach
BBG Watch Commentary After President Obama’s address to the nation on plans for military actions against Syria, the…
BBG Chairman Jeff Shell will head Universal, reports say
BBG Watch Commentary The Los Angeles Times and other media reported that Jeff Shell, a longtime Comcast Corp.…
Why Secretary Kerry has not yet designated anyone to represent him at BBG meetings?
BBG Watch Commentary As far as we know, Secretary of State John Kerry has not yet designated anyone…
APOLOGISTS HARD AT WORK, HOPEFULLY NOT ON TAXPAYERS’ DIME
BBG Watch Commentary We are reposting a commentary which has been posted on the AFGE Local 1812 website.…
Magic happens – BBG Watch serves as managing editor for Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) English news website can be hours or days late in…
China Radio International and CCTV among many broadcasters ahead of VOA in reporting on 2020 Tokyo Olympics
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) correspondents who are at odds with top executives over news handling…
Voice of America English news website fails to report on Obama’s meeting with Russian rights activists
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America English news website fails to report on President Obama’s meeting Friday in…
Voice of America English website ignores Pope Francis’s Syria peace vigil
BBG Watch As reported by BBG Watch on September 6, the main English news website of U.S. international…
Voice of America executives and correspondents at odds over news reporting and management issues
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) has been late in posting major news stories or altogether failed…
BBG Press Release: BBG Networks Bring Comprehensive Syria Coverage To The Region And Beyond
BBG Watch Commentary Despite serious management issues and poor employee morale, especially at the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB)…
Klose choice applauded by CUSIB, Radio World reports
BBG Watch Commentary Radio World reported on the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting’s (CUSIB – cusib.org) support for…
Pope Francis on Syria – Voice of America website ignores papal statement
BBG Watch Commentary The Huffington Post reported that “Pope Francis urged the Group of 20 leaders on Thursday…
Аннa Карапетян : женщина против Системы
BBG Watch Commentary A documentary essay, Anna Karapetian: a woman against the System, was posted recently in Russian (Аннa…
Anna’s Story – ‘Anna Karapetian: a woman against the System’ by Veronica Sulla
BBG Watch Commentary A documentary essay, Anna Karapetian: a woman against the System, was posted recently in Russian…
Foreign audiences looking for original Voice of America reports get news analysis from Reuters on VOA’s ‘unattractive’ website
BBG Watch Commentary It is bad enough that under the leadership of Voice of America Director David Ensor…
BBG Chairman Jeff Shell visits RFE/RL in Prague, issues statement on Klose with RFE/RL Chair Susan McCue
BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Government (BBG) new Chairman Jeff Shell was visiting the Radio Free Europe…
Time and Christian Science Monitor report on U.S. Ambassador’s letter to Egyptian newspaper, VOA ignores the story
BBG Watch Commentary Time magazine and now Christian Science Monitor have both reported on the letter sent on…
CUSIB Applauds Appointment of Kevin Klose As RFE/RL President and CEO
BBG Watch Commentary The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) welcomed the appointment of Kevin Klose…
Acting Head Kevin Klose Appointed RFE/RL President And CEO
BBG Watch Commentary As suggested by recent BBG Watch reporting, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) acting through…
Gulf News columnist says Voice of America lost much of its relevance
BBG Watch Commentary In a column for Gulf News, a leading English language newspaper of the Gulf region,…
RFE/RL recruiting for Moscow-based Chief Editor
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Russian Service – Radio Svoboda (www.svoboda.org) is currently…
Growth of International Broadcasting Bureau – IBB Staff – FY 07-14
BBG Watch Commentary As International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) executives eliminated language services and U.S. international broadcasting programming positions…
Former BBG Governor Ashe welcomes promise of federal pay raise, warns of anti-labor animus
BBG Commentary Beloved by Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) rank and file employees and feared by International Broadcasting…
USGBroadcasts.com restored
BBG Watch Commentary We have managed to get our domain name USGBroadcasts.com/ to work again and direct to…
BBG Watch domain name was hacked
BBG Watch Commentary While our website still works at these addresses: http://usgbroadcasts.com/bbgwatch/ and https://bbgwatch.com which forwards to http://usgbroadcasts.com/bbgwatch/,…
Voice of America hits new low in late coverage of major Washington news events
BBG Watch Commentary On one of the most important news days in Washington, U.S. taxpayer-funded international broadcaster…
Salvador’s Story
BBG Watch Commentary From the firing of Radio Liberty journalists in Russia to the illegal RIF of OCB…
Voice of America is late in posting news stories, gets pummeled by BBC, Russia Today and Al Jazeera in social media engagement
BBG Watch Commentary Consequences of allowing the worst management team in the federal government to continue to run…
Honesty can be dangerous for BBG employees, union warns
BBG Watch Commentary A union representing federal employees working for the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) warned its…
BBG employee union welcomes new BBG Chairman and other new Board members
BBG Watch Commentary Paul Westpheling, Vice President of AFGE Local 1812, a union representing federal employees of the…
BBG Chairman Jeff Shell: ‘We have a lot of very good people who work for this organization’
BBG Watch Commentary At his first open Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) meeting, newly-confirmed BBG Chairman Jeff Shell…
Suzie Carroll appointed BBG Executive Director
BBG Watch Commentary Newly-confirmed Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Jeff Shell announced at an open BBG Board…
BBG Chair Jeff Shell says all new BBG members ‘want to be here,’ honors Victor Ashe and other recent former members for their service
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch New Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Jeff Shell said today that all…
BBG Governor Ryan Crocker: ‘Insuring that our weave with the State Department and other relevant federal entities is solid and appropriate’
BBG Watch Commentary At his first open Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) meeting in Washington, DC, newly-confirmed BBG…
BBG Governor Matt Armstrong: ‘Agency is a tremendously important part of our foreign policy and for the United States in general’
BBG Watch Commentary While introducing himself at his first open Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) meeting in Washington,…
BBG Chairman Jeff Shell: ‘Best way to showcase freedom and democracy is by free media’
BBG Watch Commentary At his first open Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) meeting, the new BBG Chairman Jeff…
New BBG Board to consider extending Kevin Klose’s tenure at RFE/RL
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned from multiple sources that newly-confirmed Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) members,…
Former BBG Governor Victor Ashe honored by Radio Free Asia
BBG Watch Commentary Former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Ambassador Victor Ashe presented Radio Free Asia (RFA)…
Al Jazeera, BBC, Russia Today immediately made Obama’s Egypt statement their lead story, Voice of America did not
BBG Watch Commentary Al Jazeera, BBC, and Russia Today immediately lead Thursday with news reports on President Obama’s…
Media freedom NGOs urge Azerbaijan to stop harassing RFE/RL journalist
BBG Watch Commentary Reporters Without Borders and 10 other international NGOs sent a joint letter to President Ilham…
Bureaucracy silences free debate at media freedom agency
BBG Watch Commentary The AFGE Local 1812 union representing federal employees at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
From defunct to ridiculous – how IBB officials are ruining good name of U.S. international broadcasting
BBG Watch Commentary It did not occur to International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) bureacrats that Americans might not like…
De-Federalization of Voice of America would remove public oversight, give full control to bureaucrats
BBG Watch Commentary De-Federalization of the Voice of America (VOA) and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) would…