ROBINSON: Toxic Atmosphere at Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Media In a two-part article published in the USC Center on Public Diplomacy CPD Blog, former…
‘Quagmire at the BBG’ still awaits Trump reforms, former VOA correspondent explains why
BBG Watch Media In a new article published in the USC Center on Public Diplomacy CPD Blog, former…
The downhill slide of VOA
BBG Watch Media In an op-ed published in Washington Examiner, Ted Lipien, a former Voice of America (VOA)…
Devastating criticism of Radio Farda, VOA, and BBG from former official
BBG Watch Media Former director of Radio Liberty during the fall of communism in the Soviet block and…
WSJ op-ed: In Iran, Radio Liberty Doesn’t Live Up to Its Name
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Farda, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) “Persian-language service too often parrots state…
Cheerful ignorance of facts about Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary The writer of this journalistically confused and one sided New Republic article about the Voice…
Voice of America has never been independent
BBG Watch Media Dan Robinson who had a nearly 35 year career at Voice of America (VOA) argues…
CUSIB voices support for Radio and TV Marti broadcasts to Cuba
BBG Watch Media A recent article in Radio World, “Post-Fidel, the Broadcast Hostility Remains,” focuses on the growing…
‘The Persian News nightmare’ on Voice of America
BBG Watch Media Report/Commentary In a new Washington Times op-ed published December 11, 2016, New York Times best-selling…
WP defends defunct BBG Board, fails to mention VOA chiefs’ former links to the paper
BBG Watch Media Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees have been rating their agency in Office of Personnel…
Voice of America failed to report Ben Rhodes represented Obama at Castro funeral
BBG Watch Commentary Practically defunct (Hillary Clinton’s words), U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA) failed…
Washington Times op-ed: Voice of America airs “pro-Iranian regime propaganda” and “wild fantasy-land libel” against Trump
BBG Watch Media In a Washington Times op-ed published November 21, 2016, New York Times best-selling author, political…
WP article on Internet censorship in which BBG is not even an afterthought
BBG Watch Commentary “The Internet was supposed to foster democracy. China has different ideas.” was the headline of…
Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump camps accuse Voice of America of state-media bias
BBG Watch Commentary Bernie Sanders’ and Donald Trump’s supporters are absolutely right: there is something rotten at the…
PAUL GOBLE US Sending the Wrong Signals to Peoples of Russia by Not Sending Them at All
BBG Watch America’s top expert on Kremlin propaganda Paul Goble said that the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG),…
Even when ‘Federal websites can spill over into propaganda’ – BBG is ignored
BBG Watch Media “Websites operate in broadcast fashion: We publish, you read. We’ll allow feedback at our discretion.…
David Jackson Op-Ed in PDC – International Broadcasting: The Nuclear Option
BBG Watch Former Voice of America (VOA) director David S. Jackson published an opinion article on the USC…
Ben Rhodes and the Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary Ben Rhodes, Assistant to President President Obama and his Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic…
Op-Ed: Voice of America or Voice of Castro without any balance?
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RFE/RL competes with SPUTNIK and RT in promoting Putin humor
BBG Watch Commentary During the Cold War, U.S. government-funded Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was providing translation of…
VOA’s Myroslava Gongadze in National Review
BBG Watch Media National Review, a mainstream conservative magazine founded by author William F. Buckley, Jr. in 1955,…
Anti-Israel RFE/RL Facebook message may inspire terrorists | Digital Journal Op-Ed
BBG Watch Media “U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) posted an anti-Israel Facebook message which may inspire…
Sloppy VOA helps Boko Haram charge reported by Nigerian media
BBG Watch Media Nigerian media is reporting that Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has…
HELLE DALE Broadcasting Reform At BBG Is Urgently Needed To Fight ISIS
BBG Watch Media Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, has called for urgent…
Broadcasting Board of Governors cyber policies not ready for primetime
BBG Watch Media The Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) “response to cybersecurity incidents and its newly developed policy…
VOA News days behind BBC, RT, DW, NYT on Cologne attacks
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America’s VOA English News (not counting VOA Learning English section which is not…
Digital Journal Op-Ed: Reform needed for U.S. soft power to work
BBG Watch Media “U.S. needs more money for more soft power outreach abroad, but Congress and President must…
Russia propaganda machine gains on U.S. | Washington Times
BBG Watch Media In an interview with The Washington Times, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep.…
Voice of America misleads world with Donald Trump headline, endangers Americans
BBG Watch Commentary After trying to convince the world last week that Americans were in a “State…
FedSmith, FEDweek list Broadcasting Board of Governors as one of the worst federal agencies for employees
BBG Watch Media FedSmith.com In a December 8, 2015 article, “What Are the Worst Agencies to Work for…
Op-Ed: Voice of America falsely tells world U.S. is in a “State of Fear”
BBG Watch Media “Two days before President Obama’s Oval Office address on domestic terrorism, the Voice of America…
Voice of America homepage link to California shooting did not work as story developed
BBG Watch Commentary In yet another journalistic, digital and managerial embarrassment for U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA)…
Digital Journal Op-Ed: Reform and adult supervision for Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Media Broadcasting Board of Governors and Voice of America headquarters in Washington, DC. In an…
Barbarians in the Headquarters of Voice of America? – Cal State Professor condemns ‘secret visit’ to VOA of Ethiopian regime officials
BBG Watch Media An unprecedented late evening and apparently secret meeting of high-level officials representing the highly repressive…
VOA Charter ignored, says former Voice of America director
BBG Watch Commentary We would like to offer this commentary from BBG Watch as an introduction to highlighting…
U.S. hero stabbed – Voice of America late again and out-reported by BBC
BBG Media So . . . . here is a story that is not an earthshaker, but is…
WP: Survey shows small gains in federal employee morale, though it continues to fall in some agencies
BBG Watch Media 2015 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey A Washington Post columnist reports that the Broadcasting Board of…
‘A Lie isn’t an Alternative Point of View,’ Lithuanian Foreign Minister Reminds the West
‘A Lie isn’t an Alternative Point of View,’ Lithuanian Foreign Minister Reminds the West Paul Goble Staunton, September…
U.S. funded RFE/RL posts a puff piece on an Iranian terrorist
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has reported often on a leadership, management and news handling crisis at the…
WSJ Commentary: A Partisan Voice of America
BBG Watch Media Sohrab Ahmari, an editorial page writer for the Wall Street Journal Europe, based in London,…
Kudos to RFE/RL
BBG Watch Media A Digital Journal op-ed notes that Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is showing courage and practices…
BBC to cut 1,000 jobs in management cull | The Telegraph
BBG Watch Media The Telegraph reported on July 2 (sorry for the delay in highlighting this; many of…
Voice of America Shuns Professionalism, Commentary Magazine contributor observes
BBG Watch Media BBG Watch has been pointing out for some time one-sided commentaries on the Voice of…
State Department Lamely Markets Anti-IS Messages to Millennials
BBG Watch Media Much of the same thing has been going on at the Broadcasting Board of Governors’…
OPINION Jeffrey Gedmin: Congress and Obama administration dither over reform of US international broadcasting
BBG Watch Media In an opinion article posted on the Atlantic Council website, former Radio Free Europe /…
WP: VOA chief threatens to ‘kill’ other U.S. broadcast stations if . . .
BBG Watch Media In his “In the Loop” Washington Post column, Al Kamen reports on former Voice of…
VOA and RFE/RL fail to report online in English on Putin’s defense of Nazi-Soviet Pact
BBG Watch Media During the Cold War, both Voice of America (VOA) and particularly Radio Free Europe /…
Op-Ed: Walter Isaacson on U.S. media and public diplomacy
BBG Watch Media American writer Walter Isaacson, in a Broadcasting Board of Governors conversation about U.S. public diplomacy…
Voice of America Mission by Hans Tuch in New York Times
BBG Watch Media Hans N. Tuch, former acting director and deputy director of the Voice of America (VOA),…
They Have ‘Propaganda,’ US Has ‘Public Diplomacy’–and a Servile Private Sector — FAIR
BBG Watch Commentary An analysis by FAIR of the New York Times article about the Voice of America…