Message for Speaker Ryan from Dissident RFE/RL Journalists
BBG Watch Commentary Dissident Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists want to tell House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI)…
A favorite Broadcasting Board of Governors manager of former BBG Democratic Chairman
BBG Watch Commentary André Mendes, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) manager in the center of a recent media…
Voice Of America In Iran Propagandizes For The Ayatollahs, columnist and Iranians say
BBG Watch Media “Why do people in Iran call the U.S. Voice of America (VOA) the ‘Voice of…
Royce calls for new BBG CEO and VOA reform
BBG Watch Commentary Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ed Royce (R-CA) has called for new CEO…
CNN, Rep. Engel got played by ‘BBG whistleblowers’
BBG Watch Commentary For several days, some contributors to BBG Watch were being bombarded with rumors from secondary…
Public Diplomacy Challenges for the Trump Administration
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) has posted multiple raw videos without any commentary or context…
Putin Won By Bringing ‘Strength’ to Russia, RFE/RL Head Tom Kent tells BBG
BBG Watch Commentary It would have been inconceivable for the head of U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe and…
Why Putin Will Win, RFE/RL President Tom Kent Explains
BBG Watch Commentary On March 14, 2018, Tom Kent, President of U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), explained…
White House denies McMaster firing rumor spread among others by Voice of America senior reporter’s tweets
BBG Watch Commentary In a tweet with 9:11 PM – 15 Mar 2018 time stamp, Steve Herman, White…
Ann Noonan Addresses BBG on China
BBG Watch Commentary Ann Noonan, Executive Director of the independent NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB –…
#ReformBBG — BBG, VOA, RFE/RL Employees Ask for Immediate Reforms
BBG Watch Commentary According to the announcement posted on the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) website, the Broadcasting…
Propaganda for North Korea regime from Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary The surprise announcement that President Trump is planing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un…
Dissident VOA Persian journalists decry mismanagement and loss of objectivity
BBG Watch Commentary A group of Voice of America (VOA) Persian Service journalists has prepared a memorandum in…
Activist Messaging from VOA Director
OPINION Messaging US Government International Media: Information War Lost By The Federalist A recent BBG Watch report noted…
Washington Free Beacon quotes BBG Watch on violations of VOA Charter
BBG Watch Commentary The Washington Free Beacon senior writer Susan Crabtree has written an extensive analysis of management…
BBG, VOA, RFE/RL – Management Failures in Images – 2016-2018
BBG Watch Commentary These images from the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty…
Voice of America director posts: immigrants ‘afraid…prepare themselves for the worst’ under Trump
BBG Watch Commentary Director of U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) Amanda Bennett has a post on her…
HISTORY Voice of America 1951 – ‘Drab’ and ‘Unconvincing,’ Rep. Wigglesworth Quotes VOA Listeners in Poland
BBG Watch Commentary As part of our HISTORY series, we repost today an article from the Cold War…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – A Myopic Agency View
OPINION US Government International Media A Myopic Agency View Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost …
Whether YouTube warning should stay, VOA should ask Bernie Sanders or Robert Mueller
OPINION Haroon K. Ullah, chief strategy officer for the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), had his op-ed published…
Broadcasting Board of Governors Total Meltdown 5.0 Part Two
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Total Meltdown 5.0 Part Two US Government International Media Know Your Audience? By…
Tehran and Warsaw: Two Uprisings, Two Voice of America Failures
OPINION Tehran and Warsaw: Two Uprisings, Two Voice of America Failures A Blueprint for Reform By…
Voice of America 1951 – Presidents’ Day and Debates on VOA’s Future
BBG Watch Commentary Wishing all of our readers and contributors Happy Presidents’ Day, we repost the latest article…
Voice of America helps Iranian regime stay in power, Pahlavi warns
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE Commentary Reza Pahlavi, the older son of the late Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,…
VOA reporter makes fun of Trump with Kim Jong-un hair photo
BBG Watch Commentary A U.S. federal government employee who works as a reporter for taxpayer-funded Voice of America…
Hit With $24M Cut, BBG Not Even Mentioned in FY 2019 White House Budget Summary
BBG Watch Commentary The mismanaged and ailing Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and its mission are not even…
Senior managers at RFE/RL failed to earn respect, alienated staff, journalists say
BBG Watch Commentary Respect must be earned by managers and that’s something that senior executives in charge of…
Total Meltdown 5.0 for BBG in Russia with RFE/RL and VOA Current Time
OPINION RFE/RL, VOA – Total Meltdown 5.0 for BBG in Russia US Government International Media In Need…
Voice of America senior manager gives a smug response to Iranian American raising concerns
BBG Watch Commentary Matthew Baise, the Director of Digital Strategy for U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), gave…
HELLE DALE: Voice of America Is Undermining the U.S. Abroad
BBG Watch Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, says in her latest…
Vaclav Havel Fellows condemn management practices at RFE/RL
BBG Watch Commentary In response to the recent developments around რადიო თავისუფლება, the Georgian Service of Radio Free…
Chinese dissident Zhang Lin decries recent decline in quality of VOA programs to China
BBG Watch Commentary Among those disagreeing with Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and Voice of America (VOA) officials…
Watch Voice of America video of American Communist Angela Davis
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) produced and posted online a video of Angela Davis…
Respected RFE/RL Tbilisi Bureau Chief Marina Vashakmadze resigns in protest against senior management
BBG Watch Commentary Dr. Marina Vashakmadze, a well-known and highly respected journalist and media scholar in Georgia, has…
Highly-respected journalist David Kakabadze fired by RFE/RL bosses
BBG Watch Commentary The senior management of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), led by RFE/RL president…
Big names in Georgia sign petition in defense of RFE/RL Georgian Service
BBG Watch Commentary Some of the most prominent academics, writers, artists, and human rights activists in Georgia have…
Many in #IranProtests call VOA Voice of the Mullahs, says Kenneth Timmerman
BBG Watch Commentary In an interview with John Loeffler for his “Steel on Steel” radio program on January…
Another former RFE/RL newswoman Shahida Tulaganova slams management
BBG Watch Commentary UK-based award-winning investigative reporter Shahida Tulaganova joined another award-winning journalist Khadija Ismayilova, a former political…
Renowned newswoman Khadija Ismayilova blasts RFE/RL bosses after quitting
BBG Watch Commentary After quitting in frustration her freelancer position with U.S. tax-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio…
WASHINGTON EXAMINER OP-ED: VOA’s Failure in Iran and China
BBG Watch Commentary Ted Lipien, a former VOA acting associate director who is one of the co-founders and…
Pueblo anniversary: How BBG touted North Korean propaganda in a bizarre VOA report
BBG Watch Commentary January 23rd was the 50th anniversary of the Pueblo incident. As recalled in an excellent…
BBG employees blame bosses for poor communication on shutdown
BBG Watch Commentary Whenever there is any kind of crisis, the management in charge of the Broadcasting Board…
Management’s push threatens credibility of RFE/RL Georgian programs
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE Commentary BBG Watch has learned from multiple sources in Washington, DC and Tbilisi, Georgia that…
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…
‘Deplorable’ VOA to Iran -The Hill op-ed
BBG Watch Commentary Two Iranian human rights activists, Mariam Memarsadeghi and Akbar Atri, say in an op-ed in…
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…
More Iran regime propaganda from VOA
BBG Watch Commentary Showing zero sensitivity toward anti-regime protesters in Iran who demand regime change and hope for…
U.S. Trump critics love porn star tabloid tweet from Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary Critics of President Trump in the United States seem delighted with a tweet by the…
VOA News not reporting on Ayatollah Shahroudi in Germany, called him ‘moderate’
BBG Watch Commentary Isn’t is strange that Voice of America VOA English News is not reporting on the…
U.S. scholars defend Voice of America Chinese journalists
BBG Watch Commentary A group of some of the most prominent U.S. scholars specializing in China studies has…