DAN ROBINSON Voice of America needs honest self-examination, not ‘whitewash’
BBG Watch Media Writing in the USC Center on Public Diplomacy CPD Blog, former Voice of America (VOA)…
Clinton story on Voice of America – late and behind RT, SPUTNIK, DW, BBC – displaced by gorilla story
BBG Watch Commentary No kidding. Russia’s RT and SPUTNIK, Germany’s Deutsche Welle (DW), BBC and nearly every other…
Voice of America – Staring Over The Precipice
OPINION Staring Over The Precipice Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost By The Federalist …
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.…
Voice of America journalists don’t want to be treated like children
BBG Watch Commentary VOICE OF AMERICA JOURNALIST: “I’ve got some ideas for what they can scavenge for.…
Voice of America employees question BBG CEO John Lansing e-mail about their future
BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees received on Thursday, June 2, an e-mail with “Message…
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…
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…
Proposed privatization of Voice of America widely opposed
BBG Watch BBG Watch has learned that a proposed privatization of the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA)…
Closed meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has posted a closed meeting notice to meet the…
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…
Hidden history: U.S. Congress exposes Soviet propaganda at Voice of America
BBG Watch Historical Documents & Quotes Series BBG Watch begins today publishing historical documents, some of…
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…
Voice of America journalist embarrassed by failure of VOA News to cover Ben Rhodes scandal
BBG Watch Commentary In a move that it likely to seriously damage the reputation of new Voice of…
Why is Voice of America News ignoring Ben Rhodes story as news
BBG Watch Commentary Why has U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America’s VOA News voanews.com English language website ignored as…
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…
Top News headlines from Voice of America – Friday, the 13th
BBG Watch U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) mobile website offers an intriguing choice of top news headlines…
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…
Zofia Korbońska – a Voice of America hero
History On the 101 anniversary of the birth of legendary Voice of America Polish Service journalist and broadcaster…
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…
Panic News from Voice of America – Late – Not Quite Right
BBG Watch Commentary Everybody who checks and compares international news online knows by now that U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice…
Employee morale commitment letter from BBG CEO
BBG Watch Commentary As the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is distributing links for federal employees to participate…
Discarding imperial hubris could help some VOA and RFE/RL journalists
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has noticed tendency among some Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe…
When Exclusive is not Exclusive at Voice of America
BBG Watch OPINION When Exclusive is not Exclusive By Dan Robinson A headline on a…
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…
Harry Wu, Champion of Human Rights, CUSIB Board Member Dies
BBG Watch The Laogai Research Foundation and the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) announced 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…
Op-Ed: Cuba jazz musician snubbed by White House and Voice of America
BBG Watch Media A controversy over the Obama White House treatment of Cuban jazz musician Paquito D’Rivera has…
Comments on poor quality video from VOA director’s swearing-in ceremony
BBG Watch Commentary Here are a few comments on the poor quality video from Voice of America (VOA)…
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE: VOA Swears in Pulitzer Winner as New Director After Yearlong Vacancy
BBG Watch Media Government Executive reporter Charles Clark noted in a recent report the appointment of Amanda Bennett…
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…
VOA director scores big with ‘taking good ideas’ remark
BBG Watch Commentary New Voice of America (VOA) director, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Amanda Bennett, impressed many VOA employees…
What else Voice of America employees want new director to know?
BBG Watch Commentary What Else Voice of America Employees Want Amanda Bennett To Know? Current and Former VOA…
Op-Ed: Voice of America or Voice of Castro without any balance?
BBG Watch Media An
Information Warfare: It’s Over, We Lost
OPINION: THE FEDERALIST Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information Warfare: It’s Over, We Lost BBG: Land of…
Law firm update on $400 million class action suit against BBG
BBG Watch BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE The Washington, D.C. law firm, Themis PLLC, has released additional information on its…
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…
VIDEO Swearing-in Ceremony for new VOA Director Amanda Bennett
BBG Watch The video of the swearing-in ceremony for new VOA Director Amanda Bennett on April 18, 2016…
A Thank You Note from New VOA Director Amanda Bennett
BBG Watch Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Amanda Bennett was sworn in today as the 29th Director of the Voice…
New VOA director should question BBG PR claims, employees say
BBG Watch Commentary Amanda Bennett has been named director of the government-owned broadcaster Voice of America (VOA), Ron…
Employees don’t want new VOA director Amanda Bennett co-opted by dysfunctional management
BBG Watch Commentary The first address by new Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett was generally well…
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…
The Triumph of Propaganda – Voice of America and Katyn
BBG Watch History April 13 is observed in Poland as Katyn Memorial Day. It commemorates over 22,000 Poles…
Correcting Voice of America history
BBG Watch Former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director, Ted Lipien, who earlier in his VOA career…
Shocking news from US tax-funded Voice of America
BBG Watch Media The Voice of America (VOA), which is funded by U.S. taxpayers ($215 million in FY…
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,…
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…