Management's panic at survey timeMay 19, 2013 AFGE Local 1812 employee union reports that International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) and other managers responsible for creating a…
Broadcasting Board of Governors' employee union appeals to Senator McConnell to retain Ashe on BBG boardMay 18, 2013 The union representing Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees has written a letter to Senator Mitch McConnell, the…
BBG Watch reaches 1.5 million hitsMay 18, 2013 BBG Watch website has passed the 1.5 million hits mark since it was launched in September 2010. We…
RFE/RL acting president Kevin Klose discusses reforms at Radio Liberty in RussiaMay 16, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary At the broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) open meeting in Washington, DC on May 15,…
BBG's Michael Meehan: human rights leaders in Russia are under unbelievable threatsMay 16, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Michael Meehan said that human rights leaders in Russia…
BBG member may have a conflict in vigorously defending media freedomMay 16, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary At the May 15, 2013 open meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Ann…
BBG employee union blasts IBB executives, praises Victor AsheMay 15, 2013 Has there really been any significant change at the Agency that would result in improved morale? And why…
BBG Board Meeting, May 15, 2013 at 4PM EDTMay 15, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) will hold its continuing board meeting today in Washington,…
What may be behind White House attempt to remove Victor Ashe from BBG board?May 15, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) only Republican board member, former U.S. Ambassador to Poland…
Read More 2 minute read Radio Liberty Journalists in Moscow to See Justice Done, Heritage Foundation Expert ReportsMay 15, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundations Senior Fellow in Public Diplomacy studies, reported on the…
Can the BBG's IBB bureaucrats get any lower?May 14, 2013 Can the BBG’s IBB bureaucrats get any lower? by Jane Doe So, I haven’t written for a while…
Crocker and Ashe: both needed at Broadcasting Board of GovernorsMay 12, 2013 Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable – Chess Moves by The…
BBG board nominee Ryan Crocker called the premier U.S. diplomat of his generationMay 12, 2013 BBG Commentary No diplomat matches Ambassador Ryan Crocker in direct experience in today’s Middle East, Leslie H. Gelb…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable -The FY2014 Budget – Part Three: David Ensor Does Q and A With The VOA Newsroom StaffMay 11, 2013 Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable -The FY2014 Budget Part Three: David Ensor Does…
Read More 5 minute read Obama nominates Ryan Crocker to serve on Broadcasting Board of GovernorsMay 11, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Will Ambassador Crocker’s nomination to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) displace corruption watcher and…
Every dollar that we give to VOA comes back to us with hundreds of dollars of goodwillMay 10, 2013 Congressman Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs committee and co-chair of the Albanian…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable – The Latest Numbers GameMay 9, 2013 Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable – The Latest Numbers Game by The Federalist…
Read More 3 minute read Lyudmila Alexeeva – rights defender's photos with Secretary Kerry and with BBG membersMay 9, 2013 U.S. Secretary Of State Meets Russian Rights Activists RFE/RL U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has met with…
Voice of America Albanian Service, one of the best international broadcasting outlets in the world, marks 70th anniversaryMay 8, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) Albanian Service, considered one of the best international broadcasting outlets…
BBG Governors offer support to journalists in nations without free mediaMay 7, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary In recent visits to Russia and Cambodia, members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable – David Ensor Speaks – The Newsroom and the FY2014 BudgetMay 7, 2013 Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable David Ensor Speaks – The Newsroom and…
BBG Governors McCue and Meehan urge RFE/RL to work on returning fired journalists to Radio LibertyMay 7, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary “In particular, we have asked Acting RFE/RL President Kevin Klose and his team to continue…
Read More 4 minute read Human rights activists call for reform of Radio Liberty programs to KazakhstanMay 7, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary While the attention of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and Radio Free Europe /…
Read More 6 minute read BBG Governors McCue and Meehan met in Moscow with Alexeeva and with fired Radio Liberty staffersMay 6, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) members Susan McCue and Michael Meehan were in Moscow from…
Union alleges misuse of OIG by International Broadcasting Bureau executives, calls for investigationMay 5, 2013 The union representing employees of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) alleges that officials in charge of the…
Read More 3 minute read Winds of change at Radio Liberty MoscowMay 3, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Visiting Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) acting president and CEO Kevin Klose met…
Radio Free Asia responds to freedom of the press findings with a defense of its unique missionMay 2, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary A Radio Free Asia (RFA) press release shows how surrogate broadcasting, which International Broadcasting Bureau…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Boston, Chechnya, KazakhstanMay 2, 2013 Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable – Boston, Chechnya, Kazakhstan by The Federalist …
Read More 5 minute read Three BBG members to receive Champion of Free Speech AwardMay 2, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Three members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the federal agency in charge of…
Two Broadcasting Board of Governors members will visit Russia, check on Radio LibertyMay 1, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Two board members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Susan McCue and Michael Meehan,…
Masha Gessen resigns from Radio Liberty in RussiaApril 30, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Controversial director of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Russian Service Masha Gessen has…
Polish TV to air film about Radio Free Europe and its contribution to freedomApril 30, 2013 Commentary by Ted Lipien Polish Television will air next weekend a five-part documentary film about the Polish Service…
Hushing America’s message in terrorism’s redoubt, Washington Times op-edApril 29, 2013 In an op-ed in The Washington Times, former Voice of America manager Ted Lipien warns that bureaucratic infighting…
Read More 2 minute read Radio Liberty in Exile fills gap in human rights coverage in RussiaApril 29, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Fired Radio Liberty journalists are providing multimedia human rights news coverage in Russia that the…
Recording from U.S. broadcasting meeting has unexplained gapsApril 29, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Remember President Nixon’s secretary, Rose Mary Woods, and the 18½ minute gap in President Nixon…
U.S. officials promoting media freedom abroad censor information for American publicApril 29, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. government’s International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB)–the administrative arm of the Broadcasting Board of Governors…
Rep. Rohrabacher asks for more U.S. broadcasts to Iran and PakistanApril 26, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), a senior member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, has…
BBG Governor Victor Ashe said Office of Cuba Broadcasting should ban smoking on its premises due to health and safety issuesApril 25, 2013 “The recent fire started in the outside smoking area adjacent to the main building. The smoking area has…
Michael Lynton misses another Broadcasting Board of Governors meeting, makes agency ungovernableApril 25, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Sources at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) report that BBG’s Interim Presiding Governor Michael…
Waiting for Godot – BBG members hope AWOL Michael Lynton will participate in board meetingApril 24, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary The mystery continues whether the U.S. international broadcasting agency’s Interim Presiding Governor Michael Lynton will…
Sonenshine to leave public diplomacy post at State, sources told BBG WatchApril 23, 2013 BBG Watch Exclusive News Report and Commentary BBG Watch has learned that the Under Secretary of State for…
Best expert analysis of Chechnya, Boston, jihadism connection comes from Radio Liberty in ExileApril 22, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Fired Radio Liberty Russian journalists delivered some of the best in depth analysis of the…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional and Defunct – The FY2014 BudgetApril 21, 2013 Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional and Defunct – The FY2014 Budget by The Federalist On…
U.S. – Russia panel on Magnitsky may cover Chechnya, includes critics of Radio Liberty firingsApril 21, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Monday’s, April 22, the Hundson Institue panel in Washington, DC on U.S. – Russia relations,…
Top IBB officials are preventing hiring of an interim executive officer for BBG, undermine national securityApril 21, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned from several reliable sources that top officials of the International Broadcasting…
Expert analysis from RFE/RL on Boston bombings and Chechnya enhanced by Radio Liberty in ExileApril 20, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Last year, U.S. government bureaucrats in Washington wanted to eliminate Radio Free Europe / Radio…
Bureaucrats proposed cutting US broadcasts to North Caucasus, home of Boston bombing suspectsApril 19, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary. U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) still broadcasts uncensored radio programs in…
Congress to Broadcasting Agency: Is Anyone Listening to Us? by Helle DaleApril 19, 2013 U.S. international broadcasting strategy again landed under congressional scrutiny in Wednesday’s House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, a Heritage…
Read More 5 minute read Radio Liberty in Exile covers Navalny trial with videos, photos, interviews and news reportsApril 18, 2013 In February 2012, the U.S. taxpayer funded Voice of America (VOA) Russian Service broadcast what turned out to…
Tara Sonenshine on Public Diplomacy, Voice of America InterviewApril 17, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) interviewed Tara Sonenshine, the U.S. Undersecretary of State…