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AFGE: Journalists, Federal Workers, and Unions File Lawsuit to Challenge Closure of U.S. Agency for Global Media

  • March 24, 2025
USAGM Watch Commentary The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which represents 820,000 government workers, and many U.S.…
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Congress must save the good journalists at VOA, RFE/RL, RFA, Radio TV Marti, MBN | LIPIEN in THE HILL

  • March 17, 2025
President Trump’s decision to shut down the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Radio y Televisión Martí in Cuba and other…
Image included in a 2022 message to staff from VOA Acting Director Yolanda Lopez.
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All Voice of America Full Time Employees Put on Paid Administrative Leave, VOA May Survive But Emerge Much Smaller, Future of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, other USAGM Grantees Uncertain | BREAKING NEWS

  • March 15, 2025
USAGM Commentary Multiple Voice of America (VOA) full-time employees report that they have received e-mails from the U.S.…
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Most Popular Voice of America Videos December 2017: 3.4M Views of Burning Israeli and U.S. Flags

  • December 17, 2017
BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has many journalists, editors, managers and executives who…
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Ambassador Alberto M. Fernandez named new president of MBN to manage Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa

  • June 13, 2017
BBG Watch The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) announced that Ambassador Alberto M. Fernandez, a refugee from Castro’s…
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  • 4 minute read

Leadership and experience matter, as Radio and TV Martí Director shows

  • October 20, 2016
BBG Watch Commentary While the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB), which runs Radio and TV Martí, is part…
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  • 3 minute read

Thornberry Amendment to Reform Broadcasting Board of Governors

  • May 19, 2016
BBG Watch Commentary The House of Representatives voted to include in the FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act an…
Bureaucracy Warning Sign
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  • 8 minute read

When Dead and Broken BBG is All That’s Left

  • March 16, 2016
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Lost – When Dead and Broken is All That’s Left  …
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MBN’s ‘Raise Your Voice’ Digital Initiative To Expand from Iraq to Egypt

  • March 5, 2016
BBG Watch Commentary Brian Conniff, president of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN), spoke at the February 26,…
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  • 3 minute read

President Obama fails to mention Broadcasting Board of Governors in his countering-ISIL propaganda statement

  • February 26, 2016
BBG Watch Commentary If during the Cold War, the President of the United States conspicuously failed to mention…
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  • 7 minute read

Voice of America power and broadcasting outage UPDATE

  • December 8, 2015
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE It took the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) massive administrative and technical support staff a…
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  • 6 minute read

Misleading audience claims from US broadcasting agency officials

  • November 23, 2015
BBG Watch Commentary Officials running US Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), U.S. government’s overseas media outreach federal agency,…
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  • 7 minute read

John Lansing will encounter entrenched pro-status quo BBG bureaucracy, Congressional sources warn

  • August 17, 2015
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE “Tackling these problems and ‘righting the ship’ will be a truly herculean effort, perhaps only…
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  • 13 minute read

Does the World Service have a future?

  • August 13, 2015
BBG Watch Media The editor of BBC World Service News until earlier this year argues that the funding…
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  • 10 minute read

John F. Lansing is leading contender for U.S. broadcasting BBG CEO post EXCLUSIVE

  • August 11, 2015
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch has learned from reliable high-level sources within the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
Bureaucracy Warning Sign
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  • 11 minute read

OPINION Voice of America Information War Lost: A Day For Stifling Debate

  • August 6, 2015
Commentary BBG Watch offers a wide range of commentaries on current issues in U.S. international media outreach, public…
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  • 6 minute read

Radio Free Iraq no longer needed, shut down, Broadcasting Board of Governors announced

  • July 30, 2015
BBG Watch Commentary With the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS), a jihadi extremist…
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  • 4 minute read

Briefing Memo 4 for New BBG CEO – IBB Office of Digital Design and Innovation

  • July 28, 2015
BBG WATCH EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch has received from a source within the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) a…
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Briefing Memo 3 for New BBG CEO – What Do IBB Executives Do? They Travel

  • July 27, 2015
BBG WATCH EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch has received from a source within the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) a…
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Briefing Memo 1 for New BBG CEO – IBB Overview

  • July 24, 2015
BBG WATCH EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch has received from a source within the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) a…
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Union pleased with reform bill protecting ‘journalistic integrity’ of Voice of America news

  • May 29, 2015
BBG Watch A union representing federal employees of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) posted online a commentary…
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Broadcasting Board of Governors union opposes de-federalization as bad for America’s image abroad

  • April 17, 2015
BBG Watch BBG Watch is reposting a recent article by, American Federation of Government Employees – AFGE Local…
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OPINION – ROBINSON – Andy Lack’s Friday the 13th Note: Why aren’t journalists asking the questions?

  • March 13, 2015
Commentary All views expressed are those of the author. ANDY LACK’S FRIDAY THE 13TH NOTE: WHY AREN’T JOURNALISTS…
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More RIFs and partial de-federalization at Voice of America proposed as Andy Lack leaves BBG

  • March 13, 2015
BBG Watch Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Once again the entrenched bureaucracy of the Broadcasting…

U.S. media agency BBG leagues behind BBC and RT in web traffic

  • March 11, 2015
BBG Watch Commentary The troubled U.S. media agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), released Tuesday its detailed…
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  • 7 minute read

Rep. Ed Royce asks Administration to back reform at Broadcasting Board of Governors

  • February 25, 2015
BBG Watch U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, convened a hearing on…
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  • 1 minute read

BBG FY 2013 – FY 2015 Budgets and Positions

  • February 24, 2015
BBG Watch NOTE: The International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) budget was split between IBB and the Office of Technology,…
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Change – Andy Lack to be sworn in as Broadcasting Board of Governors CEO – EXCLUSIVE

  • January 10, 2015
BBG Watch Exclusive News and Commentary BBG Watch has learned that the appointment of Andy Lack as Broadcasting…
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Hill sources don’t see intent to hire Andy Lack as ‘end-around’ BBG reform legislation

  • September 29, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch sources on Capitol Hill are not perturbed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors’…
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‘A Snub to Congress: Oversight of International Broadcasting Agency in Question,’ Heritage scholar says

  • September 28, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, wrote in her commentary…
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Former BBG Governor Ashe welcomes news of Andy Lack as CEO

  • September 23, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary Former Broadcasting Board of Governor (BBG) member and CUSIB member Victor Ashe welcomed the selection…
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U.S. media on Andy Lack CEO announcement by BBG

  • September 23, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary VARIETY Andrew Lack to Leave Bloomberg for Federal Agency Post The current chairman, Universal’s Jeff…
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Shifting the news agenda with Andy Lack, Bloomberg man eyed for CEO of U.S. media outreach at BBG

  • September 18, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has reported that according to usually well-informed sources, Andrew R. Lack, Chairman of…
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Bloomberg’s Andy Lack eyed for U.S. broadcasting CEO job at BBG

  • September 18, 2014
EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch Commentary Usually well-informed sources confirmed to BBG Watch that Andy Lack, Chairman of Bloomberg Media…
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  • 18 minute read

House Passes U.S. International Broadcasting Reform Bill

  • July 28, 2014
BBG Report and Commentary Saying the United States is “losing the information battle” with Russian President Vladimir Putin,…
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  • 105 minute read

Report language on H.R. 4490 strengthens journalistic integrity, includes VOA Charter, limits Voice of America to non-surrogate role

  • July 24, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary Report language for H.R. 4490, the United States International Communications Reform Act of 2014, has…
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  • 6 minute read

Does America need the Voice of America? – media expert Jonathan Marks asks

  • July 6, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary We strongly disagree with international media expert Jonathan Marks’s conclusion in his latest blog article…
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United States International Communications Reform Act of 2014, CBO Cost Estimate

  • June 30, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary A cost estimate of H.R. 4490, the United States International Communications Reform Act of 2014,…
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  • 2 minute read

BBG Releases 2013 Annual Report – BBG Press Release

  • May 8, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has released its 2013 Annual Report. It offers useful…
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  • 7 minute read

Voice of America wasted estimated millions on improper contract payments, Radio Free Asia gets clean bill of health

  • May 3, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary — Investigative Report — Waste and Mismanagement In a series of investigative reports, BBG Watch…
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House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce calls for reduction and reform of U.S. international media bureaucracy

  • April 30, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) said that U.S. broadcasters – the Voice of America, Radio Free…
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Leading House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrat Eliot Engel remarks on U.S. broadcasting reform legislation

  • April 30, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed bipartisan reform legislation to improve the missions, objectives, and…
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  • 9 minute read

Major reform of U.S. international broadcasting and public diplomacy to be proposed in Congress

  • April 28, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that a draft bill originating in the House Foreign Affairs Committee,…
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  • 7 minute read

OP-ED – ROBINSON – TRANSFORMATION IS UPON US: HANDWRITING IS ON THE WALL

  • March 25, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary In a long-anticipated Town Hall meeting on Tuesday, officials appointed by the Broadcasting Board of…
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  • 12 minute read

Losing Egypt and the Rest of the Arab and Muslim World

  • March 19, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) failed to send a correspondent with Vice President Biden to Central…
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Wicker pushes to keep foreign radio services open — IBB wants them cut to keep its own budget and positions

  • March 12, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a leading Senator on the Commission on Security and Cooperation…
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  • 3 minute read

BBG Meeting 2-25-14 — VIDEO and BBG Press Release

  • February 25, 2014
The Broadcasting Board of Governors met at the Springfield, VA, headquarters of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks on…
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Brian Conniff gives persuasive presentation on Radio Sawa and Alhurra TV

  • February 25, 2014
The Broadcasting Board of Governors met at the Springfield, VA, headquarters of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks on…
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  • 4 minute read

A Living Memorial In Honor of Former BBG Governor, Victor Ashe

  • February 18, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary “The American Linden tree planted through the efforts of AFGE Local 1812 will be a…
Radio Free Asia Uyghur Service reporter Shohret Hoshur accepts silver medal at the New York Festivals radio awards ceremony.
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BBG Journalists Honored For Bravery, Excellence And Innovation – BBG Press Release

  • December 30, 2013
BBG PRESS RELEASE BBG Journalists Honored For Bravery, Excellence And Innovation DECEMBER 30, 2013 WASHINGTON, D.C. – In…

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