BBG Chair Jeff Shell and CUSIB both warn of ‘Great Cannon’ new China Internet censorship tool
BBG Watch BBG Watch reposts the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) press release which focuses…
CUSIB director urges prompt search for new CEO at BBG
BBG Watch Media Independent NGO, the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org), has an article in…
UAE paper on information wars
The National, an English-language daily newspaper, based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, is the latest one reporting on the…
Chen Guangcheng on importance of Radio Free Asia and Voice of America for China
BBG Watch Book Review U.S. Media Outreach Can Make A Big Difference Abroad By Ted Lipien Chen Guangcheng…
Op-Ed: Chinese dissident criticizes Obama, praises Hillary Clinton
BBG Watch Media In an exclusive March 12, 2015 interview with the Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service,…
BORSHCHEVSKAYA Moral Clarity In Countering Anti-Western Propaganda
BBG Watch Media Anna Borshchevskaya, an adjunct fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a…
OPINION – THE FEDERALIST – A Day Of Disinformation, Denial, Persuasion And Spin
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch offers a wide range of commentaries on current issues in U.S. international media…
Why foreign media are better at reporting interesting U.S. news than Voice of America?
BBG Watch Media Commentary “Obama could be final jumbo jet customer” is the most popular (most read) news…
World Service at risk of decline, warns BBC – FT.com
BBG Watch Media The BBC World Service is at risk of “decline” because it is unable to compete…
Voice of America Information War Lost: The Education Of Andy Lack
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America Information War Lost: The Education Of Andy Lack By The Federalist…
If we are behind Russia and China, that will change, BBG director Andy Lack tells NYT
BBG Watch In an interview with New York Times reporter Ron Nixon, newly sworn-in Chief Executive Officer and…
Voice of America forgot its exclusive North Korea denial and Michael Lynton’s former BBG role
BBG Watch Commentary VOA News Report, Dec. 4, 2014 VOA News Report, Dec. 19, 2014 In reporting Friday…
Washington Post cites BBG Watch on poor news coverage and mismanagement at Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary Washington Post columnist Joe Davidson has cited BBG Watch reporting on U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of…
Human rights activist Wei Jingsheng at October 2014 BBG Meeting – VIDEO
BBG Watch Commentary Chinese writer and democracy activist Wei Jingsheng, who had spent a total of 18 years…
BBG Chair Jeff Shell praises RFA Twitter TV to China – VIDEO
BBG Watch Commentary At the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) open meeting last week, BBG Chairman Jeff Shell…
NOONAN: gross mismanagement of Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) Executive Director Ann Noonan spoke at…
The World Speaks Out – Solidarity with Hong Kong on Radio Free Asia
BBG Watch Commentary THE WORLD SPEAKS OUT is a new page on Radio Free Asia (RFA) website showing…
Voice of America Alters Broadcasts After Hong Kong Protests Begin, Epoch Times Reports
BBG Watch Commentary The Epoch Times, a newspaper published by the multi-language, international media organisation associated with the…
Radio Free Asia offers exclusive news on Hong Kong protests on digital platforms and TV
BBG Watch Commentary Two key U.S. senators called Sunday for a “de-escalation” of the one week standoff between…
Hong Kong in Crisis, Voice of America Reduces TV to China
BBG Watch Guest Commentary BBG Watch occasionally publishes guest commentaries. This one is from a current Voice of…
Voice of America Reduces TV to China On the Sly As Hong Kong Protests Intensify
BBG Watch Commentary In yet another example of management meltdown, lack of communication and confusion at the U.S.…
CUSIB calls radio the best countermeasure to Internet censorship and spying on netizens in China – CUSIB PRESS RELEASE
BBG Watch Commentary The independent NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) has posted a press…
Voice of America does not post a profile of slain U.S. journalist Jim Foley, RT of Russia does
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) did not post a profile of slain U.S. journalist Jim Foley;…
Criticizing Hillary Clinton In Relation To Decline of Voice of America Is An Unnecessary Misstep
Commentary US Government International Broadcasting – Information War Lost: An Unnecessary Misstep By The Federalist We read with…
CUSIB Condemns BBG Shortwave Committee Report for Targeting Vulnerable Radio Audiences for Cuts Rather Than Cutting Waste — PRESS RELEASE
BBG Watch Commentary The independent and nonpartisan Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) issued a press…
BBG abandoned many RFA and VOA Asian shortwave radio audiences to China
BBG Watch Commentary Without any proper advance notice to shortwave radio listeners, the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG)…
‘American policies are being blasted to bits’ while Voice of America shortwave radio goes silent in Asia
Guest Commentary BBG Watch occasionally publishes guest commentaries. This one is from Victor Goonetilleke, a native of Sri…
Brave New World Vision for Voice of America Challenged
BBG Watch Commentary Ted Lipien, former acting associate director for the Voice of America (VOA) and co-founder of…
Don’t make Voice of America an arm of State Dept. – Letter to Obama from Paul Westpheling
A Guest Commentary BBG Watch occasionally publishes guest commentaries. This one is from Paul Westpheling, Former General Vice-President…
The Man Behind the Anonymous Critiques of U.S. International Broadcasting, govexec.com reports on BBG Watch
BBG Watch Commentary Government Executive, govexec.com website, has published a profile of BBG Watch and one of its…
BBG Governor Matthew Armstrong says ‘You can’t censor the Internet’, DW reports
BBG Watch Commentary Speaking at the Deutsche Welle (DW) Global Media Forum in Bonn last week in a…
Radio listeners, Vietnamese shortwave jammers surprised and confused by U.S. agency cuts
BBG Watch Commentary Vietnamese radio jamming stations continued to jam Radio Free Asia (RFA) shortwave frequencies that had…
PCJ Radio making fun of Voice of America and BBG executives on radio cuts to Asia and Middle East
BBG Watch Commentary PCJ Radio Int. based in Taiwan has produced and aired a Special Voice of America…
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…
Waste Without End
International Broadcasting Bureau – Dysfunctional and Defunct Is So Much Fun! – Information War Lost: Waste Without End…
Armstrong Going Off The Script: Calling H.R. 4490 ‘less than inarticulate’
BBG Watch Commentary International Broadcasting Bureau – Onward With Dysfunctional and Defunct! Information War Lost: Armstrong Going Off…
Ed Royce: U.S. burdening international broadcasters with a failed bureaucracy
BBG Watch Commentary “We have done ourselves no favors by burdening international broadcasters with a failed bureaucracy.…
Extraordinary Measures
International Broadcasting Bureau – Adding Disinformation to Dysfunctional and Defunct – Information War Lost: Extraordinary Measures By The…
The Hill on propaganda fears and reform of bureaucracy in charge of Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary A report in The Hill, which focuses on a bipartisan bill to reform U.S. international…
Voice of America failed to report on Obama’s statement on canonization of John XXIII and John Paul II
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America failed to report Monday on President Obama’s statement on the Canonization…
Sen. Wicker, Rep. Shock question BBG strategy as do BBG chair and members, but change seems still elusive
BBG Watch Commentary In an opinion article published Friday (April 25, 2014) on FoxNews.com, “America must not retreat…
Shortwave radio – getting message across borders without censorship
BBG Watch Commentary and Guest Open Letter International radio broadcaster Keith Perron has written an open letter to…
The Voice of America Shouldn’t Be A Whisper by John Lenczowski
BBG Watch Commentary In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, former President Reagan’s Soviet affairs advisor John Lenczowski argues…
The War on Information, a view from union of journalists and other BBG employees
BBG Watch Commentary The American Federation of Government Employees, Local 1812, a union representing federal employees of the…
CUSIB’s Ann Noonan on need for management reforms at VOA and IBB
BBG Watch Commentary At the April 11 meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors in Washington, DC, Committee…
Step Up!
BBG Watch Commentary With their usual tact and people skills that have made them one of the worst…
Voice of America Chinese Service posts video of Michelle Obama’s free speech remarks, VOA English and other services do not
BBG Watch Commentary We continue to point out that due to lack of effective central leadership and news…
Rights Activists, CUSIB Members and Guests Participate in ‘Hold On, Liu Xia’ Event – CUSIB Press Release
The independent Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) is co-sponsored “HOLD ON LIU XIA!” to raise…
Losing Egypt and the Rest of the Arab and Muslim World
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) failed to send a correspondent with Vice President Biden to Central…
China’s CCTV gave Obama-Merkel call headlines and separate reports, Voice of America gave it one sentence
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America devoted only one sentence to Tuesday’s phone call between U.S.…