BBG member may have a conflict in vigorously defending media freedom
BBG Watch Commentary At the May 15, 2013 open meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Ann…
What may be behind White House attempt to remove Victor Ashe from BBG board?
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) only Republican board member, former U.S. Ambassador to Poland…
Radio Liberty Journalists in Moscow to See Justice Done, Heritage Foundation Expert Reports
BBG Watch Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundations Senior Fellow in Public Diplomacy studies, reported on the…
Can the BBG's IBB bureaucrats get any lower?
Can the BBG’s IBB bureaucrats get any lower? by Jane Doe So, I haven’t written for a while…
Crocker and Ashe: both needed at Broadcasting Board of Governors
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable – Chess Moves by The…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable – The Latest Numbers Game
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable – The Latest Numbers Game by The Federalist…
Lyudmila Alexeeva – rights defender's photos with Secretary Kerry and with BBG members
U.S. Secretary Of State Meets Russian Rights Activists RFE/RL U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has met with…
BBG Governors offer support to journalists in nations without free media
BBG Watch Commentary In recent visits to Russia and Cambodia, members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable – David Ensor Speaks – The Newsroom and the FY2014 Budget
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable David Ensor Speaks – The Newsroom and…
BBG Governors McCue and Meehan urge RFE/RL to work on returning fired journalists to Radio Liberty
BBG Watch Commentary “In particular, we have asked Acting RFE/RL President Kevin Klose and his team to continue…
Human rights activists call for reform of Radio Liberty programs to Kazakhstan
BBG Watch Commentary While the attention of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and Radio Free Europe /…
Union alleges misuse of OIG by International Broadcasting Bureau executives, calls for investigation
The union representing employees of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) alleges that officials in charge of the…
Winds of change at Radio Liberty Moscow
BBG Watch Commentary Visiting Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) acting president and CEO Kevin Klose met…
Radio Free Asia responds to freedom of the press findings with a defense of its unique mission
BBG Watch Commentary A Radio Free Asia (RFA) press release shows how surrogate broadcasting, which International Broadcasting Bureau…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Boston, Chechnya, Kazakhstan
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable – Boston, Chechnya, Kazakhstan by The Federalist …
Three BBG members to receive Champion of Free Speech Award
BBG Watch Commentary Three members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the federal agency in charge of…
Polish TV to air film about Radio Free Europe and its contribution to freedom
Commentary by Ted Lipien Polish Television will air next weekend a five-part documentary film about the Polish Service…
Hushing America’s message in terrorism’s redoubt, Washington Times op-ed
In an op-ed in The Washington Times, former Voice of America manager Ted Lipien warns that bureaucratic infighting…
Radio Liberty in Exile fills gap in human rights coverage in Russia
BBG Watch Commentary Fired Radio Liberty journalists are providing multimedia human rights news coverage in Russia that the…
Rep. Rohrabacher asks for more U.S. broadcasts to Iran and Pakistan
BBG Watch Commentary Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), a senior member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, has…
Michael Lynton misses another Broadcasting Board of Governors meeting, makes agency ungovernable
BBG Watch Commentary Sources at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) report that BBG’s Interim Presiding Governor Michael…
Waiting for Godot – BBG members hope AWOL Michael Lynton will participate in board meeting
BBG Watch Commentary The mystery continues whether the U.S. international broadcasting agency’s Interim Presiding Governor Michael Lynton will…
Russia Talking to Itself – journalists discuss media landscape and Radio Liberty
Kremlin control of the Russian media may not be absolute, though it comes pretty close, and the few…
Sonenshine to leave public diplomacy post at State, sources told BBG Watch
BBG Watch Exclusive News Report and Commentary BBG Watch has learned that the Under Secretary of State for…
Best expert analysis of Chechnya, Boston, jihadism connection comes from Radio Liberty in Exile
BBG Watch Commentary Fired Radio Liberty Russian journalists delivered some of the best in depth analysis of the…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional and Defunct – The FY2014 Budget
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional and Defunct – The FY2014 Budget by The Federalist On…
U.S. – Russia panel on Magnitsky may cover Chechnya, includes critics of Radio Liberty firings
BBG Watch Commentary Monday’s, April 22, the Hundson Institue panel in Washington, DC on U.S. – Russia relations,…
Top IBB officials are preventing hiring of an interim executive officer for BBG, undermine national security
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned from several reliable sources that top officials of the International Broadcasting…
Expert analysis from RFE/RL on Boston bombings and Chechnya enhanced by Radio Liberty in Exile
BBG Watch Commentary Last year, U.S. government bureaucrats in Washington wanted to eliminate Radio Free Europe / Radio…
Bureaucrats proposed cutting US broadcasts to North Caucasus, home of Boston bombing suspects
BBG Watch Commentary. U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) still broadcasts uncensored radio programs in…
Radio Liberty in Exile covers Navalny trial with videos, photos, interviews and news reports
In February 2012, the U.S. taxpayer funded Voice of America (VOA) Russian Service broadcast what turned out to…
Obama nominates Matthew C. Armstrong to serve on Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary President Obama announced his intent to nominate Matthew C. Armstrong to serve as a member…
Susan McCue elected Chair of RFE/RL Board, Victor Ashe elected Vice-Chair
BBG Watch Commentary Two Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) members who have been some of the strongest supporters…
2014 Obama budget eliminates Voice of America radio to Iran, reduces radio to Afghanistan, cuts positions
BBG Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) director David Ensor has announced that President Obama’s FY 2014 budget…
Resignation of Dennis Mulhaupt from BBG was sudden, strange, unexplained
BBG Watch Commentary Sources tell BBG Watch that the resignation on Tuesday of Dennis Mulhaupt from the Broadcasting…
Dennis Mulhaupt leaves BBG, no quorum if Michael Lynton continues to be a no show at meetings
BBG Watch Commentary A Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Dennis Mulhaupt has informed the White House that…
Liberty Media Corporation should also honor fired Radio Liberty Russian journalists
BBG Watch Commentary Liberty Media Corporation, a for-profit group of American media industry investors, is giving its $50,000…
Media Freedom in the European Neighborhood: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova
The Embassy of the Czech Republic and Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) invite you to a…
Bulat Atabayev – Radio Liberty Kazakh Service stopped radio programs and became a tabloid website
BBG Watch Commentary Prominent Kazakh theater director and former political prisoner Bulat Atabayev joined other Kazakh opposition leaders…
Czech newspaper wonders if BBG Watch is right about imminent reforms at RFE/RL
BBG Watch Commentary Lidove Noviny, a daily Czech newspaper, published a commentary wondering whether the new acting Radio…
Generous bonuses for poorly performing SES executives at Broadcasting Board of Governors draw criticism
BBG Watch Commentary A list of cash bonuses given to the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), the Voice of…
Russian media report on departures of RFE/RL managers
BBG Watch Commentary The Russian investigative journalism magazine Sovershenno Sekretno is reporting on the departure of two Radio…
Two vice presidents departed Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
BBG Watch Commentary Dale Cohen, Vice President of Administration at Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) since…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost: Dysfunctional and Defunct, Same As It Ever Was
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost: Dysfunctional and Defunct, Same As It Ever Was By The…
IBB invited speaker who mocked former BBG member Hillary Clinton; some BBG governors furious with IBB's Director Lobo
BBG Watch Commentary The International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) has invited and later announced it will disinvite a Roman…
BBG Interim Presiding Governor Michael Lynton is not confirming participation in April board meeting
BBG Watch Commentary Sources told BBG Watch that the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Interim Presiding Governor Michael…
Radio Liberty in Exile offers online election coverage in Russia
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Liberty in Exile journalists — those who were fired last September by Radio Free…
U.S. reduces radio news broadcasts to Iran, Afghanistan, Belarus, China and other nations without free media
BBG Watch Exclusive News and Commentary The United States is cutting or reducing radio news broadcasts to Afghanistan,…
Kazakh political prisoner is unhappy with Radio Liberty programs
BBG Watch Commentary “By the way, it turns out that Azattyq (RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service) programs have drastically declined.…
Unilateral Disarmament: How the West Has Destroyed its Broadcasting to Russia
A significant and well-researched analysis of Western broadcasting in Russia, written by British-Russian journalist, translator, writer and former…