Flawed law permits Broadcasting Board of Governors members to do private business in Russia and China
BBG Watch Commentary With increasing demands for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to come clean about accusations against…
CEPA: Winning the information war with Russia – BBG not even an afterthought
BBG Watch Commentary The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), a transatlantic think tank based in Washington and…
Russia using history as propaganda, Polish FM warns
BBG Watch Russia using history as propaganda, Polish FM warns By Ted Lipien In an…
Voice of America casts doubts Russia was behind Democrats’ emails leak
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. tax-funded Voice of America (VOA) has issued a confusing news report in English to…
Hillary Clinton on BBG and Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary With the 2016 Democratic National Convention (July 25-28) getting underway Monday to nominate the former…
The BBG Saga: Leaving On A Jet Plane
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost The BBG Saga: Leaving On A Jet Plane …
Clueless U.S. agency invites Putin’s officials to RFE/RL party, they boot their chairman out of Russia instead
BBG Watch Commentary How clueless and mismanaged can the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) be? According to an…
BBG Chair Jeff Shell’s expulsion from Russia points to US bureaucratic failure
BBG Watch Commentary While all the facts are not yet in, one thing is certain: bureaucrats of the…
EXCLUSIVE Congressional sources call for abolishing the BBG after its bureaucracy bungled BBG Chair’s trip to Moscow
BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE Senior congressional staffers told BBG Watch that the expulsion of Broadcasting Board of Governors…
BBG Chair Jeff Shell detained and expelled from Russia
BBG Watch Last night BBG Watch reported that Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) chairman Jeff Shell, BBG CEO…
BBG in Moscow: Russia needs a new and reformed Radio Liberty, a journalist says
OPINION Introduction by BBG Watch According to unconfirmed reports, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) chairman Jeff Shell, BBG…
RFE/RL moves from goats playing ball to serious journalism under new president
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) employees are telling BBG Watch of improvements in…
RFE/RL interviews Lech Walesa on Russia, NATO, EU, and threats to democracy
BBG Watch RFE/RL has posted online a report on its exclusive interview with former Solidarity labor union leader…
Voice of America Turkey and EU headlines could have been written by RT
OPINION VOA Should Quote Experts, Not Mix News With Commentary By Ted Lipien Voice of America…
Voice of America virtual reality journalism story may be a result of virtual leadership
BBG Watch Commentary Today, the Voice of America’s parent agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) announced the…
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Announces Thomas Kent As New President
BBG Watch Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty announced the appointment of…
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty joins Voice of America in posting one-sided anti-Donald Trump video
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which together with the Voice of America (VOA)…
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.…
Masters of bad timing: BBG to eliminate Radio Liberty’s shortwave broadcasts in Russian
OPINION Masters of bad timing By Ted Lipien The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG),…
Optimistic BBG plans to eliminate RFE/RL Radio Liberty shortwave radio transmissions to Russia, Crimea, other Russian-speaking regions
BBG Watch Commentary Russian Service of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) posted an announcement on its…
Sausage attack: serious journalism at RFE/RL in decline under increasing government ownership by BBG
BBG Watch Commentary Officials of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the federal agency in charge of…
NYT: How Kosovo Was Turned Into Fertile Ground for ISIS
BBG Watch Media New York Times article, “How Kosovo Was Turned Into Fertile Ground for ISIS“ by Carlotta…
Thornberry Amendment to Reform Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary The House of Representatives voted to include in the FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act an…
North Korean Photo Propaganda from U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
BBG Watch Commentary Someone at Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), whose salary is paid for by…
Crimea Realities Chief Says Ban Won’t Stop Website, BBG announced
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has posted a press release with a headline announcing…
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: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty can’t cope with Putin propaganda
BBG Watch Media Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum and British journalist Edward Lucas assert in a Washington Post…
Voice of America Russian Service interviews Crimean Tatar leader, VOA English newsroom continues to disappoint
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) Russian Service correspondent in Moscow Danila Galperovich interviewed Mustafa Dzhemilev, the…
“Who Is Mr. Putin?” U.S. and English-language film premiere with reporter Anastasia Kirilenko fired by RFE/RL
BBG Watch Anastasia Kirilenko, a reporter who investigated Vladimir Putin and was fired last year by RFE/RL, is…
Excellent reporting by Voice of America Russian Service journalists
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA), which now has new director, Amanda Bennett, is still capable…
BBG meets with Secretary Kerry, gets praise despite anti-Israel, pro-Putin messaging
BBG Watch Commentary According to Secretary Kerry, “Today’s Broadcasting Board of Governors is not the BBG of a…
RFE/RL English reporting is often superficial and sloppy
BBG Watch Commentary During the Cold War, U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) was a giant of…
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Amanda Bennett Named VOA Director
BBG Watch Amanda Bennett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author, chosen as the new director of the…
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…
Correcting Voice of America history
BBG Watch Former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director, Ted Lipien, who earlier in his VOA career…
VOA’s Zimbabwe Service Partners With ICIJ, But Not VOA News or RFE/RL
BBG Watch Of all the U.S. taxpayer supported Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) media outlets, only the Voice…
Ran it through what?, VOA
BBG Watch “How can someone look at that headline and not see there is a problem?,” a Voice…
RFE/RL as Radio Free Kremlin, Not An April Fools Day Joke
BBG Watch Commentary This is not an April Fools Day Joke, as much as we wished it to…
Czech Republic Honors Klose, Pechacek, RFE/RL For Defending Freedom
BBG Watch Commentary “Former RFE/RL President Kevin Klose and former RFE/RL Czechoslovak Service director Pavel Pechacek were honored…
Sloppy Voice of America on first name basis with President Obama
BBG Watch Commentary Sloppiness, lack of leadership and lack of editorial control have reached new levels at the…
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…
‘Wholesale racism’ in Israel: RFE/RL Facebook message paid by U.S. taxes
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has included a message in the…
Voice of America Russian reporter with Obama in Cuba found an admirer of Vladimir Putin
BBG Commentary A reporter with the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) Russian Service who was in Cuba…
Voice of America reporters upset over VOA’s treatment of Brussels terror story
BBG Watch Commentary A screenshot taken of the Voice of America mobile site at 11:33 AM on Tuesday,…
Puzzling press release from RFE/RL about its Moscow bureau
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), a U.S. taxpayer-funded international media outlet based in…
Crimea annexation anniversary: How BBG and VOA initially helped to advance Putin’s narrative
BBG Watch Commentary Russian President Vladimir Putin travelled to Crimea on Friday to mark the second anniversary of…
A Fantasy of Success at Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary “‘It’s a whirlwind of positive change.’ Summing up the recent (February 26 [2016]) bimonthly public…
Will RFE/RL Defeat Putin Propaganda With Plan Based On Catching ‘Anger Energy’?
BBG Watch Commentary At the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) open board meeting on February 26, 2016, Radio…
CUSIB urges BBG not to abandon most vulnerable citizens in China and Tibet, not to reduce RFA budgets
BBG Watch Ann Noonan, Executive Director of the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – CUSIB.org), appealed to…