Read More 6 minute read Voice of America Buries LA Fires Story, Ignores Bipartisan Criticism of Democratic MayorJanuary 10, 2025 USAGM Watch Commentary The devastating fires in Los Angeles have been the number one news story on almost…
Read More 1 minute read Kari Lake will face a harrowing task in fixing a very broken VOA | OPINION | LIPIEN | THE HILLDecember 22, 2024 USAGM Watch Commentary Ted Lipien, a former Voice of America (VOA) broadcaster, reporter, editor, and executive, wrote in…
Read More 5 minute read Urgent reform needed to stop anti-Trump hate by VOA’s partisan journalists | THE HILL Op-EdAugust 5, 2024 USAGM Watch Media Commentary This op-ed by USAGM Watch sponsor and former Voice of America acting associate director…
Read More 6 minute read Voice of America Whitewashes Terror Backgrounds of Gazan Journalists | Honest ReportingMarch 20, 2024 USAGM Watch Commentary on “Voice of America Whitewashes Terror” Article by Honest Reporting HonestReporting, a media monitoring nonprofit…
Read More 2 minute read Voice of America Staffers Posted Anti-Israel Content to Facebook | National ReviewJanuary 12, 2024 USAGM Watch Commentary In a comment on the Voice of America Alumni Facebook Page, Ted Lipien wrote: I…
Read More 2 minute read The Hill Op-ed Against Anti-Semitism in Media and Walter Durnaty-Style Journalism at USAGM’s Voice of America (VOA)December 29, 2023 USAGM Watch Commentary In his latest op-ed in The Hill, former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director…
Read More 8 minute read Voice of America Reporters and Editors Keep Calling Hamas Terrorists ‘Fighters’December 8, 2023 U.S. government-funded Voice of America (VOA) in the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) keeps calling Hamas members…
Read More 2 minute read Voice of America Reverses Ban On Calling Hamas ‘Terrorists’ After USAGM CEO Amanda Bennett Gets An Earful From Members of CongressDecember 5, 2023 Voice of America (VOA) reverses its ban on calling Hamas “terrorists” after U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM)…
Read More 2 minute read Why I can’t be silent when Voice of America bans calling Hamas ‘terrorists’ | Washington Times op-ed by Ted LipienNovember 22, 2023 I cannot remain silent because those who refuse to expose terrorism or delay condemning it today will find…
Read More 2 minute read U.S. media reports: Voice of America orders reporters not to call Hamas ‘terrorists’October 27, 2023 Screenshot from two of several lengthy raw footage videos posted on social media by the Voice of America…
Read More 3 minute read Voice of America Hours Late in Reporting on Trump Court PleaAugust 4, 2023 VOA Late on Trump Plea Voice of America’s English News Global Website Lags for Over Three Hours on…
Read More 1 minute read VOA’s Russian influence crisis calls for congressional intervention | The Hill op-edJune 6, 2023 USAGM Watch Media Commentary
Read More 13 minute read USAGM CEO Amanda Bennett Gave Evasive Answers About Internal Censorship of Voice of America NewsMarch 15, 2023 USAGM Watch Commentary Testifying before the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related…
Read More 2 minute read Leadership failure at Voice of America and US Agency for Global Media calls for bipartisan reform | Washington Examiner Op-EdMarch 8, 2023 USAGM Watch Media Commentary When both the Washington Post and National Review report on yet another senior management-created scandal at Voice of America,…
Read More 8 minute read Congress Needs to Investigate Censorship at the Voice of AmericaJanuary 8, 2023 Commentary By Ted Lipien for Free Media Online There is a long history of censorship at the Voice…
Read More 8 minute read ‘Censorship and Falsehoods’ – Voice of America Vietnamese Journalists Blame VOA’s Senior Management | EXCLUSIVEDecember 18, 2022 When the senior Voice of America management got caught by the Washington Post on their censoring of the…
Read More 7 minute read Voice of America Management Censors VOA Vietnamese News Video – Timeline From Internal Sources EXCLUSIVEDecember 12, 2022 USAGM Watch Commentary Sources at the Voice of America (VOA), who want to remain anonymous to avoid reprisals,…
Read More 3 minute read Voice of America and USAGM Management Still Needs to Explain Censorship of VOA Vietnamese Video (Now Restored) and ApologizeDecember 11, 2022 Censorship by the Voice of America management of the VOA Vietnamese Service video, which has now been restored…
Read More 1 minute read Voice of America’s lame excuse for censorship | Washington Examiner Op-EdDecember 7, 2022 The censorship was outrageous, as was the nonchalant manner in which senior leaders in charge of upholding the…
Read More 7 minute read U.S. Agency for Global Media: Understating The ObviousDecember 1, 2022 A Guest Commentary By The Federalist One of the resources we use to monitor the U.S. Agency for…
Read More 7 minute read More Censorship at USAGM — VOA to Vietnam Censored by ManagementNovember 17, 2022 Censorship at USAGM — U.S. Agency for Global Media has returned at the Voice of America (VOA) under…
Read More 7 minute read Big Mistake in Rewarding Failed Voice of America (VOA) and U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) ManagersNovember 11, 2022 Big Mistake To Reward Failed Voice of America Managers A Commentary By The Federalist Quite possibly the worst…
Read More 10 minute read USAGM: Why the Latest OIG Report MattersOctober 15, 2022 Commentary By Dan Robinson Inspector General reports likely don’t rank high on anyone’s list of favorite reading material,…
Read More 7 minute read USAGM CEO Amanda Bennett and her top aides ran a loose ship at the Voice of America, an OIG report showsOctober 14, 2022 Amanda Bennett, the current CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and a former Voice of…
Read More 7 minute read Despite Scandals at Voice of America, Amanda Bennett Appears Cleared for Senate Confirmation as U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEOSeptember 22, 2022 Despite a long record of unprecedented management scandals during her tenure as Voice of America (VOA) director and…
Read More 6 minute read Voice of America Acting Director Tweets ‘Iran Denies Link to Rushdie Stabbing’, But Why?August 22, 2022 Acting Director of the Voice of America Yolanda López hopes to send a VOA correspondent to Afghanistan, has…
Read More 4 minute read U.S. Agency for Global Media – The Absurd, The Surreal USAGMJuly 29, 2022 The Absurd, The Surreal USAGM The surreal USAGM – U.S. Agency for Global Media’s Voice of America (VOA)…
Read More 2 minute read USAGM Head Calls on VOA Journalists to Volunteer for Homeland Security Border Work July 19, 2022 USAGM Watch Media Commentary The Daily Caller has reported that “U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Acting Chief…
Read More 11 minute read Voice of America and USAGM Need RescueJuly 9, 2022 Voice of America and USAGM need rescue and good leadership as the U.S. Senate contemplates the nomination of…
Read More 3 minute read Sen. Menendez sets meeting to review USAGM CEO nomination of Amanda BennettJune 20, 2022 The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has scheduled a business meeting for Thursday, June 23, 2022, to review several…
Read More 5 minute read Former Voice of America Reporters Shocked by VOA Propaganda Video from RussiaJune 13, 2022 Some call it a VOA propaganda video from Russia. USAGM Watch Commentary Raw video footage from the reopening…
Read More 5 minute read McCaul Calls for Additional Scrutiny of USAGM CEO Nominee Amanda Bennett June 9, 2022 McCaul Calls for Additional Scrutiny of USAGM CEO Nominee Press Release 06.09.22 Media Contact 202-225-5021 Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs…
Read More 2 minute read Senator Menendez Hints At Tough Questions for Amanda Bennett About USAGM Job June 8, 2022 Amanda Bennett is likely to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate for the position of the CEO of…
Read More 6 minute read Mismanagement Charges Against USAGM CEO Nominee Amanda BennettJune 6, 2022 Former Voice of America director Amanda Bennett, a nominee for U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO position,…
Read More 12 minute read Beware of Government Propaganda “Experts”June 5, 2022 Disinformation governance by government propaganda experts can be dangerous, judging by the record of the early officials in…
Read More 2 minute read Rep. Scott Perry: VOA Misallocates Funds and Suppresses Negative Stories About IranMay 13, 2022 Voice of America – VOA misallocates funds, said Rep. Scott Perry (R., Pa.) who accused VOA and U.S.…
Read More 10 minute read Voice of America Refuses to Disclose Review of Deleted Work by Former VOA Freelance Reporter Questioned in Ukraine and Arrested in Poland for Alleged Spying for RussiaMay 10, 2022 Voice of America refuses requests to disclose the results of its review of VOA news reports by its…
Read More 2 minute read U. S. Agency for Global Media USAGM and UkraineMarch 20, 2022 The U.S. Agency for Global Media still shows a press release about its poll in the Russian-occupied part…
Read More 4 minute read Voice of America Corrected Aid to Ukraine Map to Include Poland and Slovakia – Hungary and Other Countries Still MissingMarch 5, 2022 While the Voice of America corrected its “Aid to Ukraine” map to include Poland and Slovakia after protests…
Read More 5 minute read Voice of America and UkraineMarch 3, 2022 Voice of America and Ukraine: As Putin Threatens, VOA Misses Opportunity to Carry Live Blinken Message to Russian…
Read More 2 minute read Where are U.S.-funded global media in discussion of Russia’s war against Ukraine?, former Voice of America Reporter Dan Robinson Asks About USAGMMarch 1, 2022 On Ukraine, former Voice of America reporter Dan Robinson writes, “Yet again, not a single mention of USAGM…
Read More 2 minute read Black history hero Homer Smith fought racism at home and Soviet propaganda abroadFebruary 28, 2022 Smith should be recognized for his principled refusal to contribute to the manipulation of the Western media by…
Read More 3 minute read Russia’s War on Ukraine and DC Public MediaFebruary 26, 2022 COMMENTARY By Ted Lipien Privileged American public media executives, editors, and reporters may not realize how insensitive some…
Read More 4 minute read Horror of Russia’s War on Ukraine Made Trivial in VOA TweetsFebruary 25, 2022 Under the current U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) leadership, the horror of Russia’s war on Ukraine is…
Read More 9 minute read Russia’s War on Ukraine – BBG conducted a faulty poll in Russian-occupied Crimea – what will USAGM leadership do now?February 24, 2022 Russia’s war on Ukraine U.S. government-funded reporting is now in the hands of the dysfunctional U.S. Agency for…
Read More 9 minute read USAGM performance in Afghanistan – a threat to journalists in UkraineFebruary 13, 2022 USAGM leadership’s approach to Ukraine is dangerous for U.S. Agency for Global Media journalists, including those from Voice…
Read More 16 minute read 80 Years of VOA: Different Names of the Voice of AmericaJanuary 31, 2022 USAGM Watch Commentary 80 years ago today, on February 1, 1942, the first Voice of America (VOA) radio…
Read More 6 minute read Voice of America at 80 – VOA’s Pro-Soviet Fellow Travelers and Lessons for TodayJanuary 24, 2022 Voice of America at 80 – the hidden record of VOA’s pro-Soviet fellow travelers, Howard Fast and John…
Read More 2 minute read Symbolic Justice for Stalin’s Victims, But Not Yet From Voice of America ManagementDecember 25, 2021 Commentaries about Stalin’s victims, Voice of America By Ted Lipien (Tadeusz Lipień) In my Washington Examiner Christmas Day…
Read More 5 minute read Deceptive USAGM NumbersDecember 20, 2021 Deceptive USAGM numbers hide the lack of relevance and effectiveness of the $800 million federal U.S. Agency for…