Senate confirms Susan McCue as MCC’s board member, big loss for BBG
BBG Watch Commentary Susan McCue is credited with initiating management reforms at Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty…
Former BBG member Ashe critical of BBG Governor Armstrong’s rebuke of Congress
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Governor Matt Armstrong about the bipartisan United States International Communications Reform Act of 2014 (H.R.…
Misplaced Sense of Entitlement
BBG Watch Commentary We present yet another opinion on the bipartisan reform bill, the United States International Communications Reform Act…
BBG Governor Armstrong Rebukes Members of Congress for Criticism in Bipartisan Bill
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Governor Matt Armstrong about H.R. 4490 Bipartisan Reform Bill: “So, yes, I think, I…
A Former VOA Correspondent on the Debate Over U.S. International Broadcasting
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch is providing a forum for discussion on the United States International Communications Reform Act of…
BBG Media Highlights — bipartisan BBG reform bill and OCB journalists win in court
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Media Highlights sent out to subscribers by email and posted online by the Broadcasting…
California paper picks up Miami Herald report on OCB journalists’ latest legal victory
BBG Watch Commentary The Sacramento Bee newspaper picked up a Miami Herald report by Juan O Tamayo on…
NYT: House Measure to Change Voice of America’s Mission Is Drawing Intense Debate
BBG Watch Commentary “A bill to overhaul Voice of America has prompted an intense debate among supporters of…
Deutsche Welle does Voice of America’s reporting job on Hunter Biden and Ukraine
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) English website did not have a news report on Hunter…
GET RID OF VOICE OF AMERICA, LAWMAKER SAYS, Politix headline
BBG Watch Commentary Politix Editor-in-Chief David Mark reported in an article Tuesday that Rep. Matt Salmon. The Arizona…
RFE/RL praised for StoryMap, multimedia reporting comparisons with VOA and DW
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) “made this brilliant interactive map of Moscow’s coercive diplomacy using the open source…
Ed Royce: U.S. burdening international broadcasters with a failed bureaucracy
BBG Watch Commentary “We have done ourselves no favors by burdening international broadcasters with a failed bureaucracy.…
The Blame Game
International Broadcasting Bureau – We Don’t Know Anything But Dysfunctional And Defunct – Information War Lost: The Blame…
Federal court issues another rebuke to IBB officials accused of mistreating journalists
BBG Watch Commentary In yet another pointed rebuke to senior International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) officials, top executives and…
NYT with 11.8M Twitter followers worries, VOA News with 103K behind UN Peacekeeping with 119K
BBG Watch Commentary According to BuzzFeed article, “Exclusive: New York Times Internal Report Painted Dire…
Robinson comments on Pessin’s article in The Hill
BBG Watch Commentary Former Voice of America (VOA) senior White House correspondent Dan Robinson, who had retired earlier…
RFE/RL news report from Ukraine on USA TODAY
BBG Watch Commentary Outstanding investigative multimedia news reporting from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) got picked…
Voice of America English News fails to report Kerry’s statement on deportation of Crimean Tatars
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has failed to report for its worldwide English audiences…
‘America doesn’t need varnished truth’ by Al Pessin in The Hill blog, and BBG Watch commentary
Al Pessin, a senior Voice of America foreign correspondent, currently based in London, posted this commentary in one…
RSF: US SHOULD NOT ADOPT “INFORMATION WARFARE” APPROACH
BBG Watch Commentary “We urge the US authorities not to transform media such as Voice of America, Radio…
BBG Media Highlights mention criticism of H.R. 4490 by RSF and proposal to defund VOA
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch Highlights for May 16, 2014, sent out to subscribers by the Broadcasting Board…
Congress eager to fund RFE/RL and VOA surge to Russia but will insist on management reforms
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that many members of the U.S. Senate and the House of…
First ever bill to defund Voice of America for violations of VOA Charter and mismanagement
BBG Watch Commentary Never in the history of the Voice of America (VOA) under its numerous past directors…
Undersecretary Stengel Visits RFE/RL Kyiv Bureau — Importance of U.S.-funded Surrogate Media Acknowledged
BBG Watch Commentary It is good to see a high level U.S. State Department official, Under Secretary for…
Are comments on Voice of America websites subject to pro-Kremlin trolling? — They are.
BBG Watch Commentary Are comments on Voice of America (VOA) websites subject to pro-Kremlin trolling? There is absolutely…
RFE/RL And VOA Affiliate Stations Forced Off The Air In Ukraine, IBB Ignored Lithuanian AM Option
BBG Watch Commentary As predicted by many critics of the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), the Broadcasting Board of…
Russia’s RT retweets on Voice of America website draw criticism from former BBG members
BBG Watch Commentary Two former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) members have criticized Voice of America (VOA) practice…
Voice of America posts tweets from Russia’s RT photographer who mocked Michelle Obama
BBG Watch Commentary In a clear violation of its congressionally-approved Charter, the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America reposts…
Tomlinson on Voice of America coverage of Pope John Paul II
BBG Watch Commentary Former Voice of America acting associate director Ted Lipien has posted on his blog an…
BBG Watch website reaches 2.9 million hits mark
BBG Watch Commentary We want to thank everyone, especially our readers, who have helped us reach yet another…
BBG can be proud of its journalists working under defunct bureaucracy
BBG Watch Commentary Not all is defunct at the Voice of America (VOA) and the Broadcasting Board of…
Extraordinary Measures
International Broadcasting Bureau – Adding Disinformation to Dysfunctional and Defunct – Information War Lost: Extraordinary Measures By The…
National Geographic article warning about RT tweets, sometimes used by Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary WARNING – The article quotes an obscenity. In an National Geographic article “The Twitter War: Social Media’s…
Voice of America posts tweets from Russia’s RT and ‘pro-Russia, Fuck the #US, German socialist ‘
BBG Watch Commentary WARNING: This commentary quotes an obscenity. Using U.S. taxpayers’ money, the Voice of America (VOA),…
Reforming U.S. International Broadcasting — Special Bipartisan Website Page of House Foreign Affairs Committee
BBG Watch Commentary The House Committee on Foreign Affairs, chaired by Republican Ed Royce of California, in close…
Ted Lipien remembers Ken Tomlinson
BBG Watch Commentary Ted Lipien, former director of the Voice of America (VOA) Polish Service and later VOA…
SCHULZ: At VOA, Ken Tomlinson ‘helped bring down the Evil Empire’ – WT – also NYT and WP
BBG Watch Commentary The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Washington Times have articles about former…
Even White House can’t get Voice of America English News to report after 5PM
BBG Watch Commentary We were waiting for the proof to definitely determine what was the cause behind the…
BBG Releases 2013 Annual Report – BBG Press Release
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has released its 2013 Annual Report. It offers useful…
Voice of America mission critical programming ‘is not considered inherently governmental function’, IBB executives claim
BBG Watch Commentary — Investigative Report — Waste and Mismanagement In a series of investigative reports, BBG Watch…
Voice of America fails to report Putin’s Ukraine presidential election comment
BBG Watch Commentary Yesterday, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) loaded headlines and reports (more like commentaries) were…
Amid Declining Media Freedom, RFE/RL Presses Ahead – BBG Press Release
BBG Watch Commentary Amid a major management and news reporting crisis at the Voice of America (VOA), affecting…
Obama dropped by a White House meeting on Ukraine with Ashton – Voice of America failed to report
BBG Watch Commentary United States National Security Advisor Susan Rice held talks Tuesday at the White House on…
A New Voice of America, Wall Street Journal Editorial
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch reported today that “in contrast to other Western broadcasters, such as BBC and…
Voice of America English headlines paint an image of unpopular and collapsing Ukraine government
BBG Watch Commentary In contrast to other Western broadcasters and its own Ukrainian and Russian services, Voice of…
Voice of America Needs a Strategy, Michael Rubin in Commentary
BBG Watch Commentary In an article posted on the Commentary magazine blog, Michael Rubin proposes a simple strategy…
Götterdämmerung – Issues Of Reform, Rehabilitation, Rebirth
International Broadcasting Bureau – Information War Lost: Götterdämmerung – Issues Of Reform, Rehabilitation, Rebirth By The Federalist On…
The Hill on propaganda fears and reform of bureaucracy in charge of Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary A report in The Hill, which focuses on a bipartisan bill to reform U.S. international…
Kenneth Y Tomlinson, 1944-2014
Kenneth Y Tomlinson 1944-2014 By The Federalist Kenneth Y Tomlinson, a former Voice of America (VOA) director and…
Voice of America wasted estimated millions on improper contract payments, Radio Free Asia gets clean bill of health
BBG Watch Commentary — Investigative Report — Waste and Mismanagement In a series of investigative reports, BBG Watch…