China Dissident Zhang Lin’s Daughters Come to the US, Father and Supporters Still in Prison
China Dissident Zhang Lin’s Daughters Come to The US – The Backstory By Ann Noonan In a human…
Voice of America’s amateur hour on Obama’s Syria speech
BBG Watch Commentary Let’s face it: Voice of America’s (VOA) news reporting and management structure are completely broken.…
BBG Watch – Two Million Hits Since Launch
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch, our little news and media freedom advocacy website, launched in September 2011…
VOA ‘Featured Video’ this morning still shows monkeys instead of Obama’s speech on Syria, no U.S. reactions piece to speech
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) “Featured Video” on the English news website this morning is still…
On Obama’s Syria address, Voice of America far behind Russia Today, BBC and Al Jazeera in social media outreach
BBG Watch Commentary After President Obama’s address to the nation on plans for military actions against Syria, the…
BBG Chairman Jeff Shell will head Universal, reports say
BBG Watch Commentary The Los Angeles Times and other media reported that Jeff Shell, a longtime Comcast Corp.…
Why Secretary Kerry has not yet designated anyone to represent him at BBG meetings?
BBG Watch Commentary As far as we know, Secretary of State John Kerry has not yet designated anyone…
Voice of America Management and Syria – Faulty Risk Calculus
International Broadcasting Bureau – The Standard for Dysfunction and Defunct in the US Government – Faulty Risk Calculus and Other…
Magic happens – BBG Watch serves as managing editor for Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) English news website can be hours or days late in…
China Radio International and CCTV among many broadcasters ahead of VOA in reporting on 2020 Tokyo Olympics
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) correspondents who are at odds with top executives over news handling…
Voice of America English news website fails to report on Obama’s meeting with Russian rights activists
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America English news website fails to report on President Obama’s meeting Friday in…
Voice of America English website ignores Pope Francis’s Syria peace vigil
BBG Watch As reported by BBG Watch on September 6, the main English news website of U.S. international…
Voice of America executives and correspondents at odds over news reporting and management issues
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) has been late in posting major news stories or altogether failed…
Pope Francis on Syria – Voice of America website ignores papal statement
BBG Watch Commentary The Huffington Post reported that “Pope Francis urged the Group of 20 leaders on Thursday…
Foreign audiences looking for original Voice of America reports get news analysis from Reuters on VOA’s ‘unattractive’ website
BBG Watch Commentary It is bad enough that under the leadership of Voice of America Director David Ensor…
Time and Christian Science Monitor report on U.S. Ambassador’s letter to Egyptian newspaper, VOA ignores the story
BBG Watch Commentary Time magazine and now Christian Science Monitor have both reported on the letter sent on…
Gulf News columnist says Voice of America lost much of its relevance
BBG Watch Commentary In a column for Gulf News, a leading English language newspaper of the Gulf region,…
Voice of America hits new low in late coverage of major Washington news events
BBG Watch Commentary On one of the most important news days in Washington, U.S. taxpayer-funded international broadcaster…
Voice of America is late in posting news stories, gets pummeled by BBC, Russia Today and Al Jazeera in social media engagement
BBG Watch Commentary Consequences of allowing the worst management team in the federal government to continue to run…
BBG employee union welcomes new BBG Chairman and other new Board members
BBG Watch Commentary Paul Westpheling, Vice President of AFGE Local 1812, a union representing federal employees of the…
Al Jazeera, BBC, Russia Today immediately made Obama’s Egypt statement their lead story, Voice of America did not
BBG Watch Commentary Al Jazeera, BBC, and Russia Today immediately lead Thursday with news reports on President Obama’s…
Bureaucracy silences free debate at media freedom agency
BBG Watch Commentary The AFGE Local 1812 union representing federal employees at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
Strategic Collapse
International Broadcasting Bureau – The Standard for Dysfunction and Defunct in the Federal Government – Information War Lost: Strategic Collapse by…
From defunct to ridiculous – how IBB officials are ruining good name of U.S. international broadcasting
BBG Watch Commentary It did not occur to International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) bureacrats that Americans might not like…
De-Federalization of Voice of America would remove public oversight, give full control to bureaucrats
BBG Watch Commentary De-Federalization of the Voice of America (VOA) and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) would…
Dense Fog by The Federalist
International Broadcasting Bureau – The Standard for Dysfunction and Defunct in the Federal Government – Information War Lost:…
Congressional criticism of Voice of America programs to Iran should serve as a reality check for VOA Director David Ensor
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) Director David Ensor said on August 6, 2013 during an all-staff…
Gary Thomas responds to attacks from Voice of America management
BBG Watch Commentary In response to BBG Watch report, Victor Ashe apologized for Columbia Journalism Review for Voice…
BBC has reporters in Yemen, VOA relies on wire services for U.S. Embassy evacuation story
BBG Watch Commentary While BBC has its own correspondents and news analysts reporting from Yemen on the evacuation…
Voice of America management burdens its own broadcasters with getting programs ready for domestic distribution
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA), U.S. taxpayer-funded international broadcaster can barely adequately cover news for…
Voice of America officials were wrong in downplaying coverage of Turkish protests
BBG Watch Commentary When Voice of America (VOA) executives tried to justify their decision not to send a…
Employee union, AFGE Local 1812, joins many praising Victor Ashe’s tenure on Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary American Federation of Government Employees, AFGE Local 1812, a union representing Broadcasting Board of Governors…
Voice of America partially removes misleading language about domestic use of its programs
BBG Watch Commentary In a victory by critics against government officials trying to claim new powers which they…
CUSIB praises investigative journalism by Radio Free Asia, other BBG broadcasters
BBG Watch Commentary The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) posted a press release praising Radio…
Revisiting the VOA Newsroom – Information War Lost – The Standard for Dysfunctional and Defunct in the Federal Government – International Broadcasting Bureau
Revisiting the VOA Newsroom – Information War Lost – The Standard for Dysfunctional and Defunct in the Federal…
Even good Voice of America English news reports get few Facebook ‘Likes’ compared to those from BBC and Russia Today
BBG Watch Commentary All of this may be beating a dead horse by reporting on it again, as…
Senate Foreign Relations Committee cleared nominations of Shell, Crocker, and Armstrong for BBG board
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which holds jurisdiction over all…
Middle America newspapers call for restoring ‘Big Brother’ domestic propaganda ban for BBG
BBG Watch Commentary The Post and Courier, the main daily newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, has called for…
Shortwave radio still has a role in reaching closed and poor nations, BBG employee union said
BBG Watch Commentary In an article posted on the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) employee union website, American…
Voice of America TERMS OF USE/PRIVACY NOTICE shows much of VOA content is third-party copyright-protected and cannot be easily re-used in the U.S. without additional fees
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) TERMS OF USE/PRIVACY NOTICE shows much of its content is third-party…
How a story of Somali Americans in Minnesota gave U.S. government new domestic media powers
BBG Watch Commentary We have all heard this story told countless times by International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) and…
Former Voice of America journalist says U.S. officials are losing information war abroad
BBG Watch Commentary Former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director and journalist Ted Lipien wrote in a…
BBG Governor Victor Ashe accuses top agency officials of wasting taxpayers’ money, prolonging hardships of RIFed employees
BBG Watch Commentary In a strongly-worded statement for the press, Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) only Republican member…
IBB Director Lobo responds to former BBG Governor Wimbush
BBG Watch Commentary International Broadcasting Bureau Director (IBB) Richard Lobo has responded to an earlier Wall Street Journal…
House Appropriations Committee draft FY 2014 bill would give BBG $724 million
BBG Watch Commentary As we reported earlier, Appropriations Committee in both the House and the Senate have finalized…
CUSIB reposts S. Enders Wimbush’s response
The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) has reposted a response it received from former BBG member S.…
Senate Appropriations Committee opposes reductions in Voice of America services
BBG Watch Commentary The Senate Appropriations Committee recommended to the full Senate that the Broadcasting Board of Governors…
When America embraced U.S. government broadcasts for freedom
When America Embraced U.S. Government Broadcasts for Freedom Commentary by Ted Lipien Former Director of Security at Radio…
Heritage Foundation’s Helle Dale, others call for greater scrutiny of officials in charge of U.S. broadcasts
From John Brown’s Public Diplomacy Review, July 15-19, 2013. “Propaganda is a pejorative term …” —Broadcasting Board of…
The Agency of Domestic Invasive Activity – Information War Lost – The Standard for Dysfunctional and Defunct in the Federal Government – International Broadcasting Bureau
The Agency of Domestic Invasive Activity – Information War Lost – The Standard for Dysfunctional and Defunct in…