The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) announced that Robert R. Reilly, a former Voice of America director, joined its Advisory Board.
Robert Reilly, Senior Fellow for Strategic Communication at the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC), has taught at the National Defense University, and served in the Office of The Secretary of Defense, where he was Senior Advisor for Information Strategy (2002-2006). He participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, as Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of information. Before that, he was director of the Voice of America, where he had worked the prior decade. Mr. Reilly also served in the White House as a Special Assistant to the President (1983-1985), and in the U.S. Information Agency both in DC and abroad.
The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB), a recently-formed NGO, works to improve the free flow of uncensored news and information from the United States to countries with restricted and undeveloped media environments.
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Former VOA director joins Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting