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No substantive duplication between RFA and VOA: Radio Free Asia Releases English e-Book on North Korea’s Prison Camps

  • January 12, 2016
BBG Watch Commentary Illustration from Radio Free Asia North Korean Prison Camps E-Book     Voice of America…
Bureaucracy Warning Sign
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Voice of America Information War Lost – December Shorts (Continued)

  • January 1, 2015
BBG Watch Commentary This is the last column for 2014 from The Federalist, BBG Watch’s most read commentator.…
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Rep. Sherman right on more funding but Congress must check Voice of America North Korea reporting

  • December 23, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), the second Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee,…
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Voice of America forgot its exclusive North Korea denial and Michael Lynton’s former BBG role

  • December 20, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary VOA News Report, Dec. 4, 2014 VOA News Report, Dec. 19, 2014 In reporting Friday…
Governor Matt Armstrong leads discussion at USC. Photo: @USC_APDS via Twitter
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Governor Armstrong Travels To California For BBG Outreach – BBG Press Release

  • December 6, 2013
BBG PRESS RELEASE Governor Armstrong Travels To California For BBG Outreach NOVEMBER 26, 2013 BBG board member Matt…
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BBG Chair Jeff Shell says all new BBG members ‘want to be here,’ honors Victor Ashe and other recent former members for their service

  • August 21, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch New Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Jeff Shell said today that all…

BBG Chairman Jeff Shell: ‘Best way to showcase freedom and democracy is by free media’

  • August 21, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary At his first open Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) meeting, the new BBG Chairman Jeff…

Should U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors members do private business in Russia and China?

  • June 26, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary Most people know or suspect that major business deals for U.S. companies, especially media deals,…

BBG Governor Victor Ashe: situation at RFE/RL 'has been righted'

  • June 19, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary At the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) meeting on June 19, 2013 in Washington, DC…

BBG Governor Victor Ashe: situation at RFE/RL ‘has been righted’

  • June 19, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary At the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) meeting on June 19, 2013 in Washington, DC…

Questions from Chicago Sun-Times may have led to Michael Lynton's resignation from BBG

  • May 28, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary Since last year, BBG Watch has been reporting on Michael Lynton’s absence from BBG meetings,…

What's behind resignation of BBG's Michael Lynton

  • May 27, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary The resignation of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Interim Presiding Governor Michael Lynton was…

Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable – Penny’s Folly

  • May 26, 2013
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable – Penny’s Folly by The…
September 13, 2012. BBG Presiding Governor Michael Lynton led the Board’s delegation to the State Department for a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, an ex officio BBB member. The delegation included Governors Victor Ashe, Dennis Mulhaupt, Susan McCue, and Michael Meehan, as well as Richard M. Lobo, Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau. Under Secretary of State Tara Sonenshine, the Secretary’s representative to the BBG, took a leading role in framing the discussion.
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Michael Lynton: absentee BBG Governor with business interests in Russia resigns

  • May 24, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Interim Presiding Governor Michael Lynton who has missed every…

BBG member may have a conflict in vigorously defending media freedom

  • May 16, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary At the May 15, 2013 open meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Ann…

BBG Board Meeting, May 15, 2013 at 4PM EDT

  • May 15, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) will hold its continuing board meeting today in Washington,…

What may be behind White House attempt to remove Victor Ashe from BBG board?

  • May 15, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) only Republican board member, former U.S. Ambassador to Poland…

Can the BBG's IBB bureaucrats get any lower?

  • May 14, 2013
Can the BBG’s IBB bureaucrats get any lower? by Jane Doe So, I haven’t written for a while…

BBG board nominee Ryan Crocker called the premier U.S. diplomat of his generation

  • May 12, 2013
BBG Commentary No diplomat matches Ambassador Ryan Crocker in direct experience in today’s Middle East, Leslie H. Gelb…
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Obama nominates Ryan Crocker to serve on Broadcasting Board of Governors

  • May 11, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary Will Ambassador Crocker’s nomination to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) displace corruption watcher and…

Two Broadcasting Board of Governors members will visit Russia, check on Radio Liberty

  • May 1, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary Two board members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Susan McCue and Michael Meehan,…

Masha Gessen resigns from Radio Liberty in Russia

  • April 30, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary Controversial director of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Russian Service Masha Gessen has…

Hushing America’s message in terrorism’s redoubt, Washington Times op-ed

  • April 29, 2013
In an op-ed in The Washington Times, former Voice of America manager Ted Lipien warns that bureaucratic infighting…

Recording from U.S. broadcasting meeting has unexplained gaps

  • April 29, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary Remember President Nixon’s secretary, Rose Mary Woods, and the 18½ minute gap in President Nixon…

Michael Lynton misses another Broadcasting Board of Governors meeting, makes agency ungovernable

  • April 25, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary Sources at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) report that BBG’s Interim Presiding Governor Michael…

Waiting for Godot – BBG members hope AWOL Michael Lynton will participate in board meeting

  • April 24, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary The mystery continues whether the U.S. international broadcasting agency’s Interim Presiding Governor Michael Lynton will…

Sonenshine to leave public diplomacy post at State, sources told BBG Watch

  • April 23, 2013
BBG Watch Exclusive News Report and Commentary BBG Watch has learned that the Under Secretary of State for…

Top IBB officials are preventing hiring of an interim executive officer for BBG, undermine national security

  • April 21, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned from several reliable sources that top officials of the International Broadcasting…

Bureaucrats proposed cutting US broadcasts to North Caucasus, home of Boston bombing suspects

  • April 19, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary. U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) still broadcasts uncensored radio programs in…

Congress to Broadcasting Agency: Is Anyone Listening to Us? by Helle Dale

  • April 19, 2013
U.S. international broadcasting strategy again landed under congressional scrutiny in Wednesday’s House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, a Heritage…

Beyond BBG press release: Comments from AFGE 1812's Tim Shamble, CUSIB's Ann Noonan

  • April 13, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary “Mindful of the damage to RFE/RL’s reputation in Russia caused by the previous RFE/RL management,…
BBG Governor Matt Armstrong asking VOA Director David Ensor a question at BBG meeting, Dec. 18, 2013.
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Obama nominates Matthew C. Armstrong to serve on Broadcasting Board of Governors

  • April 12, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary President Obama announced his intent to nominate Matthew C. Armstrong to serve as a member…

Resignation of Dennis Mulhaupt from BBG was sudden, strange, unexplained

  • April 10, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary Sources tell BBG Watch that the resignation on Tuesday of Dennis Mulhaupt from the Broadcasting…

Dennis Mulhaupt leaves BBG, no quorum if Michael Lynton continues to be a no show at meetings

  • April 10, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary A Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Dennis Mulhaupt has informed the White House that…

Liberty Media Corporation should also honor fired Radio Liberty Russian journalists

  • April 8, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary Liberty Media Corporation, a for-profit group of American media industry investors, is giving its $50,000…
September 13, 2012. BBG Presiding Governor Michael Lynton led the Board’s delegation to the State Department for a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, an ex officio BBB member. The delegation included Governors Victor Ashe, Dennis Mulhaupt, Susan McCue, and Michael Meehan, as well as Richard M. Lobo, Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau. Under Secretary of State Tara Sonenshine, the Secretary’s representative to the BBG, took a leading role in framing the discussion.
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IBB invited speaker who mocked former BBG member Hillary Clinton; some BBG governors furious with IBB's Director Lobo

  • April 3, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary The International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) has invited and later announced it will disinvite a Roman…

BBG Interim Presiding Governor Michael Lynton is not confirming participation in April board meeting

  • April 1, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary Sources told BBG Watch that the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Interim Presiding Governor Michael…

Former president's top deputies leaving Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

  • March 24, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary In the last six months, dozens of Radio Liberty journalists in Russia were fired without…

Masha Gessen gets award for journalism while dozens of fired Radio Liberty journalists are still unable to work at the station

  • March 16, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary Masha Gessen, the controversial director of the Russian Service at the U.S. taxpayer-funded media freedom…

Is unexplained absence of Broadcasting Board of Governors interim chair due to alleged conflict of interest?

  • March 10, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary While the remaining members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) have been working hard…

Hillary Clinton's unfinished business and new direction at BBG

  • February 26, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary Writing about the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Robert Schadler, a senior fellow for Public…

BBG meeting shortened, Klose to report on RFE/RL in closed session

  • February 12, 2013
BBG Watch has learned that due to expected absences of some Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) members, the…

BBG Presiding Governor may be absent at next board meeting

  • February 11, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary Sources told BBG Watch that the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Interim Presiding Governor Michael…

CUSIB Statement on Recent BBG Developments

  • February 7, 2013
The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting has released a statement expressing its opposition to the growth of bureaucracy…

An alternative view of the BBG Board

  • February 6, 2013
An alternative view of the BBG Board By a long-time employee AND taxpayer ​ We’ve heard the part-time…

RFE/RL board meets, no letter of resignation from Steven Korn arrived, search for replacement continues

  • December 31, 2012
BBG Watch Commentary The Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty corporate board, which is composed of all members of the…

Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Russia Reviewed

  • December 20, 2012
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Russia Reviewed  by The Federalist  (Special to BBG Watch to mark…

What future holds for RFE/RL President Korn and his team and for Radio Liberty?

  • December 15, 2012
BBG Watch Commentary It’s hard to imagine that Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) President and CEO Steven Korn…

BBG to initiate review of Radio Liberty Moscow events

  • December 14, 2012
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) interim presiding governor Michael Lynton announced Friday at the open BBG meeting…

Victor Ashe criticizes Broadcasting Board of Governors for inaction in addressing management crises

  • November 12, 2012
Ambassador Victor Ashe, a member of the bipartisan board of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a federal…
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