Helle C. Dale @Helledale is the Heritage Foundation’s Senior Fellow in Public Diplomacy studies. As described in her bio on the Heritage Foundation’s website, her current work focuses on the U.S. government’s institutions and programs for strategic outreach to the public of foreign countries, as well as more traditional diplomacy, critical elements in American global leadership and in the war of ideas against violent extremism. She is a media fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and serves on the board of visitors of the Institute on Political Journalism at Georgetown University and the board of Center for Free Inquiry at Hanover College in Indiana. READ MORE
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Heritage scholar exposes VOA’s biased news
USAGM Watch Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, said in an article…
HELLE DALE: Prospect of Reforming US Broadcasting Abroad
BBG – USAGM Watch Media Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, argues…
Allegations of old anti-Semitism part of new scandals at USAGM’s Voice of America and RFE/RL
BBG – USAGM Commentary Various niche media outlets were reporting last week on new serious allegations against the…
HELLE DALE A Year Later, Still No Justice for Chinese Voice of America Journalists
BBG Watch Media Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, has a new…
HELLE DALE: Voice of America Is Undermining the U.S. Abroad
BBG Watch Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, says in her latest…
HELLE DALE Did the Chinese Government Influence Voice of America?
BBG Watch Media Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, commented on the latest…
Helle Dale in WT: Baseless angst over reforming Voice of America
BBG Watch Media Helle Dale, the senior fellow for public diplomacy in The Heritage Foundation, noted in her…
HELLE DALE Broadcasting Reform At BBG Is Urgently Needed To Fight ISIS
BBG Watch Media Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, has called for urgent…
WAHL – POMERATSEV – DALE on Kremlin conspiracy theories propaganda
BBG Watch Media A congressional hearing, entitled “Confronting Russia’s Weaponization of Information,” was convened Wednesday in Washington by…
Ed Royce – ‘U.S.-broadcasters are laboring under a flawed bureaucracy’ – Rep. Engel says reform is coming
BBG Watch Commentary Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee,…
DALE Europeans Agree to Counter Russian Propaganda War
BBG Watch Media Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, writes in The Daily…
Heritage scholar, others stand behind BBG CEO Andy Lack
BBG Watch Commentary “No need to apologize for speaking the truth about Russian propaganda.” – Helle C. Dale…
HELLE DALE: Andy Lack has a Herculean task ahead of him at BBG
BBG Watch Commentary In analyzing the start of Andy Lack’s CEO job at the Broadcasting Board of Governors…
U.S. International Broadcasting in the Omnibus – Helle Dale, Heritage Foundation
BBG Watch Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, has written a commentary…
‘A Snub to Congress: Oversight of International Broadcasting Agency in Question,’ Heritage scholar says
BBG Watch Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, wrote in her commentary…
Time to Rearm, and Fight Enemy Propaganda, Heritage scholar says
BBG Watch Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, has published another article…
DALE in WT: Only way to save U.S. international broadcasting is complete reform
BBG Watch Commentary Helle Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow for public diplomacy, has an op-ed in The…
Is Voice of America hobbling along? – Ariel Cohen, Blanquita Cullum, David Ensor, Dan Robinson respond
BBG Watch Commentary At the Heritage Foundation panel discussion today (April 21, 2014) on “Propaganda, Disinformation, and Dirty…
Propaganda, Disinformation, and Dirty Tricks: The Resurgence of Russian Political Warfare – Partial C-SPAN VIDEO
BBG Watch Commentary UPDATE: For full Heritage Foundation video and partial audio and transcripts, see: Is Voice of…
Can the BBG Transform Itself? – Helle Dale, Heritage Foundation expert, asks
BBG Watch Commentary After years of dysfunction, U.S. international broadcasting might be headed for better times as new…
Halt the Senate Rush to Fill Dysfunctional Broadcasting Board, say Heritage Foundation experts
BBG Watch Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundations Senior Fellow in Public Diplomacy studies, and Brett D.…
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…
U.S. International Broadcasting “Defunct”—Congress Finally Steps In by Helle Dale, The Heritage Foundation
BBG Watch Commentary Helle Dale, the Heritage Foundations Senior Fellow in Public Diplomacy studies, comments in the Heritage…
U.S. International Broadcasting and Public Diplomacy Should Be Bipartisan – Helle Dale, Heritage Foundation
BBG Watch Commentary Helle Dale, a Heritage Foundation expert on public diplomacy, wrote that “the news that the…
Radio Liberty Journalists in Moscow to See Justice Done, Heritage Foundation Expert Reports
BBG Watch Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundations Senior Fellow in Public Diplomacy studies, reported on the…
Sequestration Prompts Attempt to Silence U.S. Radio Broadcasting
“Again, the BBG has demonstrated why it is a broken institution, unfit to handle the U.S. government’s most…
How to Save Radio Liberty by Ariel Cohen and Helle C. Dale, The Heritage Foundation
How to Save Radio Liberty By Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. and Helle C. Dale, The Heritage Foundation December 13,…
Heritage Foundation scholar calls for return to work of fired Radio Liberty journalists
Dr. Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundations Senior Fellow in Public Diplomacy studies, has called on the Broadcasting…
BBG's 50 million dollar contract with Gallup gets more scrutiny
Helle Dale of the Heritage Foundation described the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) audience research contract with The…
Helle Dale – The BBG’s Culture of Secrecy
In a post on the Heritage Foundation blog The Foundry, the foundation’s senior public diplomacy analyst Helle Dale…
Russian Roulette at Voice of America – Helle Dale, Heritage Foundation
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch had reported earlier on the self-censorship by the Voice of America Russian Service…
Broadcasting Board of Governors executives plan an attack piece on Helle Dale's criticism
BBG Watch has learned from a reliable source that Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) executives in the International…
Chinese News Makes Inroads in U.S. by Helle Dale, Heritage Foundation
Dr. Helle Dale of the Heritage Foundation observed that while the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) constantly eliminates…
Why America Has Trouble Reaching Iran: VOA’s Persian News Network in Dire Need of Reform by Helle Dale, Heritage Foundation
Helle C. Dale, a Senior Fellow for Public Diplomacy at The Heritage Foundation has written another in-depth analysis…
Quieting the Voice of America – Helle Dale, The Heritage Foundation
“More than 30 years have passed since Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about the “Soft Voice of America” in an…
Overhaul Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Management – Helle Dale, Heritage Foundation
Dr. Helle Dale of the Heritage Foundation is once again calling for a major overhaul of the Broadcasting Board of Governors