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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
Russia Today reported on Obama statement on Zimmerman verdict before Voice of America, put VOA story coverage to shame
BBG Watch Commentary Russia’s state-funded multimedia news and opinion outlet Russia Today reported on President Obama’s statement on…
No post-Zimmerman verdict coverage on Voice of America English website, extensive coverage by Al Jazeera, BBC, Russia Today
BBG Watch Commentary As of 2PM Washington, DC time, the Voice of America (VOA) English news website offers…
Disastrous social media engagement results for Voice of America English news website
BBG Watch Commentary Facebook “Likes” for Seven Top News Stories on English Websites, July 11, PM, Washington, DC…
Facebook Likes for Voice of America and Russia Today 7 Top News: 122 – 4,539 – July 9, AM – VOA vs. BBC: 122 – 10,357
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has compared Tuesday morning Washington, DC time the number of Facebook “Likes” (same…
Tweets for Voice of America and Al Jazeera 7 Top English News: 143 – 810, July 9, AM ET
BBG Watch Commentary, BBG Watch has compared Tuesday morning Washington, DC time the number of Tweets for top…
Former CNN executives at Voice of America had no video on San Francisco plane crash, Russia Today video got 33K views as of Sunday evening
BBG Watch Commentary Al Jazeera, Russia Today and BBC had thousands of Facebook “Likes” and Tweets for their…
Voice of America and Russia Today Saturday Turkey Protests coverage compared: VOA Facebook “Likes” – 2, RT – 923 (Sun. 1PM DC)
BBG Watch Commentary 923 to 2 – Russia Today (RT) English beats Voice of America (VOA) English in…
When a plane crashes in US, web audiences abroad go to Al Jazeera, BBC, Russia Today – not Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary When a South Korean airliner crash-landed at the San Francisco International Airport, Al Jazeera, BBC…
43 to 1 – Voice of America beaten by Al Jazeera on Morsi ouster news story in social media engagement on the web
BBG Watch Commentary English is America’s official language, but critics charge that news collection and reporting by the…
Russian media report on departures of RFE/RL managers
BBG Watch Commentary The Russian investigative journalism magazine Sovershenno Sekretno is reporting on the departure of two Radio…
Unilateral Disarmament: How the West Has Destroyed its Broadcasting to Russia
A significant and well-researched analysis of Western broadcasting in Russia, written by British-Russian journalist, translator, writer and former…
Broadcasting Board of Governors Being Unnoticed
Broadcasting Board of Governors Being Unnoticed A commentary by The Federalist You know where we’re coming from: we…
Editorial on RCI and international broadcasting by Keith Perron
In an interview with Ian Johnson for The New York Review of Books, blind Chinese human rights activist…
Deemphasizing of international experience led to Voice of America ignoring Obama's Polish gaffe
BBG Watch Commentary Layoffs of experienced journalists, closing down of foreign language services, recent hiring of former domestic…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – The Eve of Destruction
by The Federalist On March 7, 2012 the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) plans to mark the 70th…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Behold! The Master Plan
by The Federalist As we already know, as part of the administration’s FY2013 budget, the Broadcasting Board…
Former VOA executive advocates a multi-platform approach that includes radio and TV
In a paper published by the Public Diplomacy Council, Alan L. Heil Jr., a former deputy director of…
Interesting Times
FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog The Federalist Commentary, October 16, 2008, San Francisco — “May you live in…