The USAGM Numbers Game
OPINION The USAGM Numbers Game Numbers of Convenience Without Consequence By The Federalist The audience numbers…
It’s Alive! The USAGM Dystopia
OPINION It’s Alive! The U-SAG-M Dystopia By The Federalist “Dystopia” has a broad range of definition. In part,…
BBG Digital Meltdown: The Perfect Storm
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Digital Meltdown: The Perfect Storm US Government International Media Information War: Lost…
TV Rain puts BBG media to shame in corrective Babchenko coverage
BBG Watch Commentary Coming back from the dead does not happen often. When Russian opposition journalist Arkady Babchenko…
Broadcasting Board of Governors Total Meltdown on Iran
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Total Meltdown Mode on Iran: 4.0 US Government International Media By…
Wall Street Journal: Broadcasting Board of Governors ‘slow and backward’ on Iran and freedom
BBG Watch Commentary FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITORIAL: Today’s dissenters need software to evade the regime’s internet…
Russia’s RT beats VOA hands down on Irma coverage, audience engagement
BBG Watch Commentary As Hurricane Irma hit Florida, Russia’s RT beat U.S. taxpayer-funded ($221 million FY 2017) Voice…
Voice of America reporters horrified by decline of VOA journalistic standards
BBG Watch Commentary A former Voice of America (VOA) correspondent who during his long career with taxpayer-funded VOA…
BBG admitted VOA buys Facebook ‘Likes’ with ads EXCLUSIVE
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE A Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Office of Public Affairs staffer admitted in emails dated…
Enjoy ‘Pravda-style’ reports from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) at US taxpayers’ expense
BBG Watch Commentary If you think that the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), run by current and former…
CUSIB Executive Director Ann Noonan calls for more funding for U.S. broadcasting to China and Tibet, BBG reform
BBG Watch Speaking at an event last week in Flushing, NY, sponsored by the Qi’s Cultural Foundation, Ann…
WP article on Internet censorship in which BBG is not even an afterthought
BBG Watch Commentary “The Internet was supposed to foster democracy. China has different ideas.” was the headline of…
‘Moving Forward, VOA Haunted by Its Past,’ BBG employees’ union says
BBG Watch Commentary The last few weeks brought more bad news for Voice of America (VOA) employees. This…
“Слабость Запада” : Why Americans Fall for Kremlin Propaganda
BBG Watch Guest Commentary Because of some of their unique national traits, quite a few Americans, including younger…
LIPIEN OP-ED: Robert E. Sherwood on avoiding election coverage bias at Voice of America
OPINION Robert E. Sherwood on avoiding election coverage bias at Voice of America By Ted Lipien I disagree…
RFE/RL English reporting is often superficial and sloppy
BBG Watch Commentary During the Cold War, U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) was a giant of…
RFE/RL competes with SPUTNIK and RT in promoting Putin humor
BBG Watch Commentary During the Cold War, U.S. government-funded Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was providing translation of…
RFE/RL as Radio Free Kremlin, Not An April Fools Day Joke
BBG Watch Commentary This is not an April Fools Day Joke, as much as we wished it to…
Sloppy Voice of America on first name basis with President Obama
BBG Watch Commentary Sloppiness, lack of leadership and lack of editorial control have reached new levels at the…
Voice of America Russian reporter with Obama in Cuba found an admirer of Vladimir Putin
BBG Commentary A reporter with the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) Russian Service who was in Cuba…
Voice of America reporters upset over VOA’s treatment of Brussels terror story
BBG Watch Commentary A screenshot taken of the Voice of America mobile site at 11:33 AM on Tuesday,…
Puzzling press release from RFE/RL about its Moscow bureau
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), a U.S. taxpayer-funded international media outlet based in…
Excellent and unique reporting from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
BBG Watch Media We highly recommend this report from RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service. It was produced by Radio Liberty’s…
Voice of America’s ‘First Live Facebook Report’ on Super Tuesday
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) did what was presented as VOA’s “First Live Facebook Report.”…
VOA talks with astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko – a missed opportunity
BBG Watch For some reason, Voice of America (VOA) Central English Newsroom did not produce a separate news…
Broadcasting Board of Governors cyber policies not ready for primetime
BBG Watch Media The Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) “response to cybersecurity incidents and its newly developed policy…
Polemical Remarks About Radio Liberty Russian Service
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch Introduction to “Polemical Remarks About Radio Liberty Russian Service: A View From Russia”…
Voice of America digital meltdown redux of PBS for BBG CIO?
BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chief Information Officer and former Interim CEO and Director André…
Voice of America Digital Failure, saga continues, frustrations mount
BBG Watch Commentary There is no end in sight to equipment and other failures at the Voice of…
Digital failure at Voice of America MONDAY PM UPDATE
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) and Voice of America (VOA)…
Technical and management troubles don’t cease at Voice of America, BBG
BBG Watch Commentary New Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO John Lansing may be finding out that the…
Voice of America or Voice of Castro?
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America or Voice of Castro? While surfing the web, we recently came across…
Voice of America broadcasters fed up with technical mishaps
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) broadcasters are completely fed up with repeated technical mishaps at their…
On the day of Obama’s terrorism address, Voice of America shows 21 hour old Tweet
BBG Watch On Saturday, President Obama made a radio address on domestic terrorism. The Voice of America had…
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War: Lost and Staying Lost
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War: Lost and Staying Lost By The Federalist …
Voice of America manager argues for keeping ‘hateful’ Facebook comments on U.S., France, and gays
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) Facebook pages get a dismally low number of comments from readers…
OPINION We’ve Lost For The French and Western Civilization
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: We’ve Lost For The French and Western Civilization By The Federalist…
Comment: Ashamed of My Voice of America Job After 15 Years
BBG Watch Commentary This comment by an anonymous writer who self-identifies as a Voice of America journalist was…
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…
OPINION: Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War?
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War? What Information War? The Agency Is Dead – Unprecedented Irrelevance…
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…
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 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…
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Defeated
Commentary BBG Watch offers a wide range of commentaries on current issues in U.S. international media outreach, public…
Misplaced priorities of BBG Governor
BBG Watch Commentary We could not find any online trace of U.S.taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) paying any…
Robert Conquest and Voice of America’s intellectual decline
BBG Watch Commentary Robert Conquest (left), who died on August 3, 2015, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom…
Briefing Memo 4 for New BBG CEO – IBB Office of Digital Design and Innovation
BBG WATCH EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch has received from a source within the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) a…
Messages of success from BBG Interim CEO & Director André Mendes
BBG Watch According to Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Interim CEO and Director André Mendes, the U.S. taxpayer-funded…