Heather Nauert stresses collaboration, firewall with BBG, praises RFA Uyghur Service
BBG Watch Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Kenneth Weinstein opened the BBG board meeting on June 6,…
Iran scholars criticize BBG, VOA, and Radio Farda management
BBG Watch Commentary With increasing frequency and frustration, anti-regime Iran scholars based in the West, as well as…
TV Rain puts BBG media to shame in corrective Babchenko coverage
BBG Watch Commentary Coming back from the dead does not happen often. When Russian opposition journalist Arkady Babchenko…
Is Voice of America again afraid of Katyn?
Guest Commentary By Ted Lipien I noticed through an online search of their news websites that neither the…
When you silence dissent, you lose, Iranian scholar tells RFE/RL VP
BBG Watch Commentary Dr. Majid Mohammadi, author of more than three dozen books on Iran, joins a growing…
Radio Farda: isn’t it time for a house cleaning?
OPINION GUEST ANALYSIS Radio Farda: isn’t it time for a house cleaning? By Majid Mohammadi President Trump…
Former RFE/RL Kazakh editor criticizes management
BBG Watch Commentary Young journalists, most of them women, from countries without free media are criticizing senior management…
HISTORY How a refugee journalist exposed Voice of America censorship of the Katyn Massacre
BBG Watch History Commentary This Cold War History Museum presentation shows how officials in charge of the Voice…
HISTORY U.S. Congressman on Katyn Massacre Coverup at Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary In mid-April 1943, the Voice of America (VOA), which was then known as the Overseas…
Broadcasting Board of Governors Comedy Club Part Two
OPINION BBG Comedy Club Part Two: The Road Show US International Media Information War Lost…
Broadcasting Board of Governors Comedy Club
OPINION BBG Comedy Club[ref] Photos: Lampooning Donald Trump at the Voice of America, December 14, 2016. See:…
Just The Facts?!? on BBG
OPINION Just The Facts?!? US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist The…
Another former RFE/RL woman journalist blasts senior management
BBG Watch Commentary Asem Tokayeva, another woman journalist who had worked for U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe /…
Nepotism at RFE/RL
BBG Commentary We are receiving more and more complaints from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) employees about nepotism…
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)…
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…
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…
#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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
#ReformBBG – Support #IranProtests
BBG Watch Commentary Dear Americans, The U.S. taxpayer-founded @VOANews & @RFERL never took the right stance on #IranProtests…
BBG Total Meltdown Mode 3.0
OPINION BBG Total Meltdown Mode 3.0 Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost By The Federalist…
Voice of America Posts Iranian Mullahs’ Victory Statement with A Pravda-like Top VOA Headline
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) confirmed its longstanding reputation for being what Iranian and…
Timmerman calls on NSC for change of Voice of America leadership
BBG Watch Commentary “Led by a stable of Obama appointees, the Voice of America and the Persian language…
Voice of America repeats Iran regime propaganda that protests are waning
BBG Watch Commentary Taking a clue from Iran’s regime propaganda, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) reported that…
Iranian protesters feel let down by VOA and Radio Farda
BBG Watch Commentary An Iranian coordinator of anti-regime protests in Iran who is now in exile told The…
RFE/RL romanticizes Putin by recycling his propaganda
BBG Watch Guest Commentary Thinking, naively, that Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a U.S. taxpayer-funded…
Most Popular Voice of America Videos December 2017: 3.4M Views of Burning Israeli and U.S. Flags
BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has many journalists, editors, managers and executives who…
Biden ignores RFE/RL, VOA, BBG in Foreign Affairs article on Russian propaganda
OPINION An important article in Foreign Affairs on Russia’s propaganda and disinformation against the West, “How to Stand…
Broadcasting Board of Governors lacks ‘effective information security,’ OIG finds
BBG Watch Commentary In yet another devastating report, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Broadcasting Board…
RFE/RL promotes nostalgia for communism with U.S. tax dollars
BBG Watch Commentary In the last few days U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) was…
SOLZHENITSYN Target of KGB Propaganda and Censorship by Voice of America
OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn SOLZHENITSYN, Target of KGB Propaganda and Censorship…