The Man Behind the Anonymous Critiques of U.S. International Broadcasting, govexec.com reports on BBG Watch
BBG Watch Commentary Government Executive, govexec.com website, has published a profile of BBG Watch and one of its…
Radio’s Brave New World by James Cridland offers lessons for BBG
BBG Watch Commentary James Cridland has published a thought provoking article on radio. He is the Managing Director…
BBG Governor Matthew Armstrong says ‘You can’t censor the Internet’, DW reports
BBG Watch Commentary Speaking at the Deutsche Welle (DW) Global Media Forum in Bonn last week in a…
Audit finds low morale at U.S. Radio and TV Marti to Cuba, California paper reports
BBG Watch Commentary “Low morale still plagues the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, the U.S. government organization responsible for…
Voice of America Newsroom opponents of H.R. 4490 outnumbered at union meeting by bill’s supporters
BBG Watch Commentary Several sources told BBG Watch that at a AFGE Local 1812 union meeting last week…
Does America need the Voice of America? – media expert Jonathan Marks asks
BBG Watch Commentary We strongly disagree with international media expert Jonathan Marks’s conclusion in his latest blog article…
Bad Management Threatens Voice of America’s Future
Commentary This commentary was sent to BBG Watch by VOA broadcaster who must remain anonymous. The Voice of…
Voice of America – Information War Lost: For or Against Agency Reform?
BBG Watch Commentary The best way for a small group of well-meaning but completely misguided and unrealistic Voice…
Voice of America Needs to Avoid Extremes and Be Real
Commentary Voice of America Needs to Avoid Extremes and Be Real By Ted Lipien No one I know…
Can Publicly Financed Journalism Ever Be Honest? – GAWKER and ROBINSON
BBG Watch Commentary An article by Hamilton Nolan in Gawker about a bipartisan bill designed to reform the…
Fixing U.S. International Broadcasting – At Last! – MULHAUPT and WIMBUSH
BBG Watch Commentary In one of the best reasoned and most coherent articles in favor of reforming the…
Is the USA bankrupt not only financially, but even with the skills of management?
BBG Watch Commentary A longtime listener to Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcasts in Asia asked: “Is the…
Radio listeners, Vietnamese shortwave jammers surprised and confused by U.S. agency cuts
BBG Watch Commentary Vietnamese radio jamming stations continued to jam Radio Free Asia (RFA) shortwave frequencies that had…
More evidence of delaying notice to Voice of America listeners about shortwave cuts
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has obtained further evidence from multiple sources that a top International Broadcasting Bureau…
Is Congress trying to neuter Voice of America’s journalism or save it?
BBG Watch Commentary In a new Columbia Journalism Review article, former Voice of America (VOA) senior correspondent Gary…
Still no announcements on Voice of America main websites about shortwave cuts
BBG Watch Commentary In an incredible display of insensitivity toward its audiences and its own journalists, Voice of…
Broadcasting Board of Governors has let America and Obama down
BBG Watch Commentary The sudden ending of many direct Voice of America (VOA) shortwave radio transmissions to Asia…
Some world reactions to sudden VOA shortwave shutdown in Asia
BBG Watch Commentary These reactions were posted on Facebook by former Voice of America White House and foreign…
Last Voice of America English shortwave program to Asia with hardly any prior notice
BBG Watch Commentary Showing complete contempt for longtime radio listeners, Voice of America (VOA) executives, carrying out sudden…
Kerry’s representative to BBG writes about Egypt and media freedom, ignored by VOA
BBG Watch Commentary Richard Stengel, who serves as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs…
United States International Communications Reform Act of 2014, CBO Cost Estimate
BBG Watch Commentary A cost estimate of H.R. 4490, the United States International Communications Reform Act of 2014,…
BBG, IBB, VOA executives break all 10 commandments
BBG Watch Commentary BBG, IBB, VOA executives break all 10 commandments of good management on (not) announcing bad…
Dropping radio and going all digital: VOA Asia Twitter not updated since May 3
BBG Watch Commentary Executives in charge of the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), which operates radio transmissions for the…
PCJ Radio making fun of Voice of America and BBG executives on radio cuts to Asia and Middle East
BBG Watch Commentary PCJ Radio Int. based in Taiwan has produced and aired a Special Voice of America…
Bureaucrats gave listeners little time to learn about shortwave cuts by VOA, RFA, and RFE/RL
BBG Watch Commentary In deciding suddenly with only a two-days notice on the date for shortwave radio broadcasting…
Bobby Womack RIP : to learn about his death and legacy, foreign audiences must go to DW and BBC, not Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary UPDATE: Voice of America finally posted a report about Bobby Womack’s death, no video and…
Victor Ashe : Voice of America has demonstrated its weaknesses
BBG Watch Commentary Commenting on numerous news reporting failures by the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), former…
RFE/RL versus Helsinki Committee on labor rights – bad press continues
BBG Watch Commentary While the new leadership (Kevin Klose and interim team which replaced him) of U.S. taxpayer-funded…
Voice of America often fails to counter Russian propaganda and sometimes promotes it
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) often fails to counter Russian propaganda and sometimes even…
America’s international broadcasters are losing the air wars, analysis in Sacramento Bee
BBG Watch Commentary One of the most thoughtful analyses of U.S. government/taxpayer-funded international media outreach was written by…
Report details abuse of power, unauthorized spending by BBG, Ripon Advance notes
BBG Watch Commentary The Ripon Advance, a daily online news service of the Republican Party’s moderate Ripon Society,…
DALE in WT: Only way to save U.S. international broadcasting is complete reform
BBG Watch Commentary Helle Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow for public diplomacy, has an op-ed in The…
Voice of America ignored State Department comment on U.S.-Polish controversy
BBG Watch Commentary Badly managed, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) often misses U.S. news stories of importance…
Voice of America leaves it to Russian RT to report on US-Poland scandal
BBG Watch Commentary While international media has been full of reports for many days on leaked tapes of…
Voice of America ignores U.S. Marine Andrew Tahmooressi in Mexican prison, visit from Congressmen Royce and Salmon
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has almost completely ignored the arrest and subsequent detention…
CUSIB urges management reforms at BBG
BBG Watch Commentary The independent and nonpartisan Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org), which has been…
‘Scrap this broken agency’: Audit finds Broadcasting Board of Governors wasted $5M
BBG Watch Commentary The Washington Times reports on Saturday, June 21, 2014: A new State Department Office of…
Meehan resolution to move Iran broadcasting from VOA to RFE RL to be voted on later
BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Michael Meehan tried to introduce this resolution, but since…
BBG not to challenge legal rulings in favor of RIFed OCB – Radio and TV Marti employees
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that a Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member told Committee for…
BBG governor stands alone supporting Reform Act
BBG Watch Commentary A copy of a memo that Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Michael Meehan sent…
IBB – BBG Debacles – Anti-Reform Act folks by Jane Doe
BBG Watch Commentary One of BBG Watch contributors, Jane Doe, who because of her sensitive position within the…
IBB – BBG Debacles – Management by Jane Doe
BBG Watch Commentary One of BBG Watch contributors, Jane Doe, who because of her sensitive position within the…
Waste and Abuse of Power at the Broadcasting Board of Governors, According to Audit — Foreign Policy Blog reports
BBG Watch Commentary We feel sorry for new Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) chairman Jeff Shell and all…
BBC beats Voice of America on capture of Benghazi attack suspect, Obama statement
BBG Watch Commentary This was a significant U.S. news development that came directly from U.S. government sources (first…
Voice of America News ignores Biden in Brazil, meeting with winning US World Cup team
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America English News can’t find America’s top fan at the World Cup in…
IBB – BBG Debacles – Legal by Jane Doe
BBG Watch Commentary One of BBG Watch contributors, Jane Doe, who because of her sensitive position within the…
International Labor Rights Forum Charges Discrimination at Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
BBG Watch Commentary In a letter sent to the Board of Broadcasting Governors (BBG), the International Labor Rights Forum calls…
CUSIB Member, Former BBG Governor Victor Ashe Comments on International Affairs
BBG Watch Commentary Member of our Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) Advisory Board and former…
U.S. BBG pays for faulty, favoring Kremlin propaganda poll in Russia-annexed Crimea
BBG Watch Commentary Two top independent sociologists in Ukraine and Russia, as well as some American experts who…
Voice of America Ukrainian Service still works with same few staffers as before the crisis
BBG Watch Commentary Paraded in Public, Little Management Support Voice of America (VOA) Ukrainian Service has received very…