Turkey Coup: VOA posts quick updates to Facebook following earlier criticism
BBG Watch Commentary Following the earlier BBG Watch criticism that “Voice of America was not updating Facebook news…
VOA goes live online with Obama Dallas speech but BBC does better
BBG Watch Commentary “Think of it! Voice of America trying to. . . . compete! The nerve of…
ROBINSON: Not Unfair…Or Outsized…Or Erroneous
OPINION Former senior White House correspondent for the Voice of America Dan Robinson has responded to the BBG…
JACKSON: The Voice of America is Not a Wire Service, And It Shouldn’t be Expected to Act Like One
OPINION Former Voice of America director David S. Jackson argues in an op-ed for BBG Watch that VOA’s…
Grim Realities
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost Grim Realities By The Federalist We…
BBC Live Program Dominance Over VOA (Part II)
BBC Live Program Dominance Over VOA (Part II) by Dan Robinson In a commentary published…
Voice of America English News takes nearly 4 hours to report on Obama-Putin phone call
BBG Watch According to the time stamp on the Voice of America (VOA News) English report posted online…
Voice of America endangers lives with sanitized reporting on terror, but one report bucks the trend
BBG Watch Commentary While some recent U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) news reports endangered Americans and non-Americans,…
BBC, DW, RT report on Elie Wiesel’s death, but not Voice of America as of 5PM ET
BBG Watch Commentary Russia’s RT has Elie Wiesel’s death as its top news story since 4:46 PM ET.…
Voice of America Turkey and EU headlines could have been written by RT
OPINION VOA Should Quote Experts, Not Mix News With Commentary By Ted Lipien Voice of America…
Voice of America far behind BBC, DW, RT, SPUTNIK on Istanbul terror attack
BBG Watch Commentary Even at 6:00 PM ET Tuesday, the lead news story on the Voice of America…
Voice of America says ‘chaos’ reigns in Britain as do Russia’s RT and SPUTNIK
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) is reporting to its international audiences and whatever audiences…
Poor quality BBG video, risky ads on BBG YouTube, VOA Director Amanda Bennett
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has posted on its official website and uploaded to…
BBC’s Live Program Dominance Over Voice of America
OPINION On Any Given Day: BBC Continues Its Live Program Dominance Over the Voice of America By Dan…
Dysfunction in Voice of America coverage of Clinton, Trump, and Tuesday primaries
BBG Watch Commentary We received these observations and screenshots (posted below) from a former senior Voice of America…
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…
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…
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…
Curious convergence? Voice of America and RT on Turkey
BBG Watch Media Commentary After the downing of the Russian fighter jet by the Turkish military in November…
Facebook comments on poor quality of Voice of America video from Cuba
BBG Watch Take a look at this Voice of America (VOA) video, and the comment(s) in Spanish criticizing…
A Fantasy of Success at Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary “‘It’s a whirlwind of positive change.’ Summing up the recent (February 26 [2016]) bimonthly public…
Marginally better Voice of America still beaten on Nancy Reagan by BBC, DW, RFI, RT
BBG Watch Commentary Image: BBC Breaking News Headline on Nancy Reagan U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) is…
Voice of America’s ‘First Live Facebook Report’ on Super Tuesday
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) did what was presented as VOA’s “First Live Facebook Report.”…
‘A phony John Paul II love story distorted his real persona’ op-ed includes a rare VOA interview
BBG Watch Commentary A Digital Journal op-ed “A phony John Paul II love story distorted his real persona,”…
Voice of America English News fails to report online White House spokesman confirming ‘Putin is corrupt’
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America’s VOA Central English Newsroom failed to report on its main…
Is Voice of America talking down to foreign audiences?
BBG Watch Commentary Compared to BBC, Deutsche Welle (DW), Radio France Internationale (RFI) and even Russia’s RT and…
BBC investigates corruption by Putin, where were Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America?
BBG Watch Commentary Rather than interviewing U.S. officials about corruption charges leveled against Vladimir Putin, Voice of America…
Life in Post-Soviet Russia of Former Radio Liberty Reporter
BBG Watch Commentary INTRODUCTION: A young and successful Russian investigative reporter Anastasia Kirilenko is one of many who…
Throwing Good Money After Bad: BBG’s Desperate Struggle Against Reform
OPINION Throwing Good Money After Bad: BBG’s Desperate Struggle Against Reform Will Taxpayers Continue to Foot This…
VOA News days behind BBC, RT, DW, NYT on Cologne attacks
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America’s VOA English News (not counting VOA Learning English section which is not…
Voice of America Central News ignores sexual assaults on women in Cologne
BBG Watch Commentary It was not a big surprise to us that as of 1:30 AM EST, Wednesday,…
Another yesterday’s news tomorrow weekend at Voice of America – still no Carter story
BBG Watch Assume you are someone in Africa who likes and is interested in former U.S. President Jimmy…
Voice of America news foul-ups — Point/Counterpoint
BBG Watch BBG Watch commentary: “Voice of America homepage link to California shooting did not work as story…
Voice of America homepage link to California shooting did not work as story developed
BBG Watch Commentary In yet another journalistic, digital and managerial embarrassment for U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA)…
Voice of America opponents of ‘countering violent extremism’ not likely to be asked to do it
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) English newsroom reporters, some of whom make more than $150,000 per…
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War: Lost and Staying Lost
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War: Lost and Staying Lost By The Federalist …
Voice of America manager argues for keeping ‘hateful’ Facebook comments on U.S., France, and gays
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) Facebook pages get a dismally low number of comments from readers…
Broadcasting Board of Governors claims a record audience despite dismal VOA social media stats
BBG Watch Commentary There is no shortage of good news from the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) despite…
Voice of America with minimal Paris terror coverage had dismal social media engagement compared to BBC, DW, and RT
BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) offered this weekend its international audiences minimal coverage…
Matt Armstrong calls Voice of America a ‘fundamental counter to propaganda’, exaggerates successes, ignores failures
BBG Watch Commentary A Republican member of the bipartisan Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the federal agency in…
Voice of America and the Russian Bear
BBG Watch Satire A bear broke into a shopping mall in Russia this week, apparently looking for food.…
Voice of America irrelevant on social media during Democratic presidential debate
BBG Watch Commentary America is calling, but is anyone looking at Voice of America news content on social…
Voice of America should not do away with some types of breaking news coverage, a listener abroad says
BBG Watch A Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) staffer provided this comment to BBG Watch regarding the issue…
U.S. hero stabbed – Voice of America late again and out-reported by BBC
BBG Media So . . . . here is a story that is not an earthshaker, but is…
Voice of America late and short on Oregon shooting
BBG Watch Commentary “Here we go again. So, Oregon shooting is plastered all over BBC, on home page,…
Voice of America fails to notice Russian propaganda on WWII history
BBG Watch Commentary Russian ambassador to Poland has implied that Poland, not Hitler and Stalin, was responsible for…
BBC enters Putin’s media war – POLITICO
BBG Watch Media James Panichi and Alex Spence report in Politico Europe Edition that “To counter Kremlin crackdown,…
BBC Monitoring – How TV propaganda is affecting Russian society
BBG Watch Media According to BBC Monitoring, Russian TV’s relentless propaganda onslaught during the Ukraine crisis has turned…
Voice of America does better on Malala story compared to 2013, gets exclusive interview with Ukraine’s president
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice America did a much better job covering Malala Yousafzai’s visit to Washington…
Journalist analyzes Matt Armstrong buzzwords
BBG Watch Commentary A former Voice of America senior correspondent has sent us an analysis of a recent…