Voice of America – Information War Lost: Beyond Dysfunctional and Defunct
BBG Watch Commentary A new commentary from our regular contributor The Federalist deals with the Voice of America…
Does Shortwave Radio Have a Future?
BBG Watch Guest Article This article by Thomas Whitherspoon, Director and Founder at Ears To Our World, originally…
Non-stop music on Voice of America online radio after U.S. elections
BBG Watch Commentary As of 3:20 AM ET, Wednesday morning, November 5, 2014, VOA’s online “NOW PLAYING: Live…
BBC and VOA U.S. elections coverage compared in images and sounds
BBG Watch Commentary “Needless to observe, but BBC is wiping VOA in the dirt with wall to wall…
Voice of America midnight radio newscast – not a word about U.S. elections
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America midnight (12:00AM ET 11-5-2014) radio newscast – not a word about U.S.…
11:45 PM – BBC, CNN, FOX, CNBC and RT reported Republican Senate Majority – Voice of America has not
BBG Watch Commentary 11:45 PM – BBC, CNN, FOX, CNBC and RT reported Republican Senate Majority – Voice…
10:00PM ET Voice of America radio newscast – no U.S. news items, no U.S. election coverage
BBG Watch Commentary 10:00PM ET 11-4-14 VOA LATEST, ON-DEMAND, ONLINE RADIO NEWSCAST. This Voice of America…
U.S. Election Night, 9:05-9:50PM and continuing, Voice of America plays music non-stop
BBG Watch Commentary 10:00PM ET 11-4-14 VOA LATEST, ON-DEMAND, ONLINE RADIO NEWSCAST. This Voice of America…
Voice of America fumbles on a breaking space rocket explosion story
BBG Watch Commentary Mismanaged U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) was once again “out to lunch” after business…
Voice of America executives still not reading VOA website
BBG Watch Commentary by Another Backbencher As of Friday, Oct 3 at 1:54am, the Voice…
Russia’s RT, BBC report on Secret Service director resignation well before Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary The news of Secret Service Director Julia Pierson resigning was posted today (Wednesday)…
U.S. expert: ‘Putin Cleverly Exploits Three Weaknesses of the West,’ including journalists
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) senior executives could learn a lot from the most recent article…
Voice of America and RT English news in common : no headlines of Moscow peace protests
BBG Watch Commentary Mismanaged U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) and Russia’s propaganda propaganda outlet RT…
Digital Last at Voice of America with John Kerry – Good Enough for Government Work
BBG Watch Commentary This commentary describes how Voice of America was “Digital Last” in its handing of an…
VOA Interview with Kerry — no video, no audio*, no photo, no Facebook** — SKYPE interview with VOA reporter instead
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America executives have once again shown how unable they are to manage a…
Voice of America fails to update news and headlines on important news day
BBG Watch Commentary While President Obama was visiting Estonia and declared that “borders cannot be…
Sen. Menendez’s ‘arms for Ukraine’ call merits top headline on BBC, but not on Voice of America English news website
BBG Watch Commentary Key American senators, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Senator John McCain…
No update of VOA homepage, no separate report on Obama Ukraine statement
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America has not updated its main English news…
VOA leads Russian troops in Ukraine story with a typo, fails to update
BBG Watch Commentary A typo in the lead sentence in Voice of America’s lead news story,…
JOE BRUNS The Voice of America: A Worthy Mission for the 21st Century
Guest Commentary BBG Watch occasionally publishes guest commentaries. This one is from Joe Bruns who was named Deputy…
Ransom demand for Foley: Voice of America not reporting, hours behind BBC, NYT, other media
BBG Watch Commentary As of 1:45 PM EDT, Thursday, August 21, the Voice of America (VOA) English News…
Voice of America finally on the scene in Ferguson – No Comment
BBG Watch Commentary After more than ten days of reporting on the Ferguson protests from Washington, without any…
On Ferguson, Voice of America top brass shows Rick Stengel why Russia’s RT is better
BBG Watch Commentary At the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) open board meeting on August 13 in Washington,…
Voice of America bosses and staff on vacation, no VOA reporter in Ferguson, Missouri
BBG Watch Commentary The same management of U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), which provided on-the-scene coverage of…
BBC, VOA: Mid-Summer Reflections on Things That Need Fixing
Guest Commentary BBG Watch occasionally publishes guest commentaries. This one is from Dan Robinson, former Voice of America…
Voice of America news failures on Syria, other stories extend to VOA language services
BBG Watch Commentary No Voice of America language service was found to have posted news from Congress, State…
A historical perspective on H.R. 4490 debate — propaganda — public diplomacy — VOA Charter
BBG Watch Commentary VOA CHARTER To protect the integrity of VOA programming and define the organization’s mission, the…
Bobby Womack RIP : to learn about his death and legacy, foreign audiences must go to DW and BBC, not Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary UPDATE: Voice of America finally posted a report about Bobby Womack’s death, no video and…
Voice of America often fails to counter Russian propaganda and sometimes promotes it
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) often fails to counter Russian propaganda and sometimes even…
Voice of America ignored State Department comment on U.S.-Polish controversy
BBG Watch Commentary Badly managed, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) often misses U.S. news stories of importance…
Voice of America leaves it to Russian RT to report on US-Poland scandal
BBG Watch Commentary While international media has been full of reports for many days on leaked tapes of…
BBC beats Voice of America on capture of Benghazi attack suspect, Obama statement
BBG Watch Commentary This was a significant U.S. news development that came directly from U.S. government sources (first…
BBC beats VOA with Shinseki resignation
BBG Watch Commentary BBC beats VOA with Shinseki resignation. BBC has five stories, main, and four linked on…
Memo for Voice of America Director: BBC, Radio Australia, RFI carried Obama speech live
BBG Watch Commentary For: Voice of America Director David Ensor CC: Members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors…
Voice of America more than 4 hours behind BBC in reporting on death of Jaruzelski
BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), which once offered breaking international news coverage and…
A Former VOA Correspondent on the Debate Over U.S. International Broadcasting
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch is providing a forum for discussion on the United States International Communications Reform Act of…
NYT with 11.8M Twitter followers worries, VOA News with 103K behind UN Peacekeeping with 119K
BBG Watch Commentary According to BuzzFeed article, “Exclusive: New York Times Internal Report Painted Dire…
Voice of America posts tweets from Russia’s RT and ‘pro-Russia, Fuck the #US, German socialist ‘
BBG Watch Commentary WARNING: This commentary quotes an obscenity. Using U.S. taxpayers’ money, the Voice of America (VOA),…
Voice of America fails to report Putin’s Ukraine presidential election comment
BBG Watch Commentary Yesterday, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) loaded headlines and reports (more like commentaries) were…
Voice of America English headlines paint an image of unpopular and collapsing Ukraine government
BBG Watch Commentary In contrast to other Western broadcasters and its own Ukrainian and Russian services, Voice of…
Voice of America offered disappointing coverage of John XXIII and John Paul II canonization
BBG Watch Commentary The Catholic Church sainthood for Popes John XXIII and John Paul II…
BBC World News has ten times more Facebook Fans than Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary VOA Facebook Page – 561k Likes BBC World News Facebook Page – 5.5m…
VOA does a poor job of explaining Hungary vote, more comprehensive reporting and analysis from Al Jazeera, BBC, DW, RT
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America’s (VOA) brief news item (134 words) on the results of parliamentary elections…
‘The man who went looking for freedom’ | BBC — while listening to Voice of America and Radio Free Europe
BBG Watch This BBC documentary which tells the story of Romanian dissident, Ion Bugan, was recommended by World…
Kerry: ‘No decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine’ – low in VOA report, near top in others
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) English language news report from Paris on the Kerry-Lavrov meeting has…
Russian Foreign Ministry retweets RT regularly, U.S. State Department almost never retweets Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ active and frequently updated Twitter account MFA-Russia has numerous retweets…
VOA much behind BBC on Obama-Putin phone call, Voice of Russia has much more on the call than VOA
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch had reported earlier that the Voice of America (VOA) English news website was…
Voice of America not reporting on Obama-Putin phone call, top news story for BBC
BBG Watch Commentary VOA English website has finally posted a news report on the Obama-Putin phone call sometime…
G8 summit ‘won’t be held in Russia’, BBC again beats VOA on breaking news
BBG Watch Commentary BBC has again beat Voice of America on breaking news on Ukraine and on updating…
Susan Rice and Richard Stengel promote State Department’s response to Putin’s propaganda machine, offer little help so far to BBG
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. National Security Advisor to President Obama Susan Rice and U.S. Under Secretary of State…