Read More 3 minute read Voice of America Censors ‘Let’s Go Brandon’November 15, 2021 Voice of America censors “Let’s go Brandon” phrase in an apparent effort to protect President Biden. No VOA…
Read More 9 minute read Voice of America tweeted false accusations against Covington students but failed to report on CNN settlementJanuary 21, 2020 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded and U.S. government-managed Voice of America (VOA) English-language news website…
Read More 6 minute read A favorite Broadcasting Board of Governors manager of former BBG Democratic ChairmanMarch 23, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary André Mendes, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) manager in the center of a recent media…
Read More 3 minute read Royce calls for new BBG CEO and VOA reformMarch 21, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ed Royce (R-CA) has called for new CEO…
Read More 4 minute read CNN, Rep. Engel got played by ‘BBG whistleblowers’March 21, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary For several days, some contributors to BBG Watch were being bombarded with rumors from secondary…
Read More 4 minute read Senior VOA reporter quit updating Twitter since Trump’s victoryMarch 14, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary A source told us that a senior reporter working in the newsroom of the U.S.…
Read More 4 minute read JACKSON: The Voice of America is Not a Wire Service, And It Shouldn’t be Expected to Act Like OneJuly 11, 2016 OPINION Former Voice of America director David S. Jackson argues in an op-ed for BBG Watch that VOA’s…
Read More 9 minute read Employee morale commitment letter from BBG CEOMay 3, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary As the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is distributing links for federal employees to participate…
Read More 6 minute read Voice of America and the Russian BearOctober 18, 2015 BBG Watch Satire A bear broke into a shopping mall in Russia this week, apparently looking for food.…
Read More 10 minute read Senator Ted Cruz wants BBG to counteract ISIS propaganda, some Voice of America English news staffers don’tAugust 4, 2015 BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
Read More 12 minute read U.S. taxpayers can’t afford Voice of America correspondent’s proposalJuly 18, 2015 PHOTO: The power of Russia’s information machine is shown in a Voice of America map in which Crimea…
Read More 8 minute read Voice of America fails to report on Cuban officials harassing TV Marti reporters in PanamaApril 12, 2015 BBG Watch Commentary Even though its parent agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), issued a press release…
World Leaders get their news from the New York Times, Reuters, CNN and the Economist | TwiplomacyDecember 3, 2014 Post by Twiplomacy. World Leaders get their news from the New York Times, Reuters, CNN and the Economist…
Read More 2 minute read 11:45 PM – BBC, CNN, FOX, CNBC and RT reported Republican Senate Majority – Voice of America has notNovember 5, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary 11:45 PM – BBC, CNN, FOX, CNBC and RT reported Republican Senate Majority – Voice…
Read More 3 minute read Digital Last at Voice of America with John Kerry – Good Enough for Government WorkSeptember 12, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary This commentary describes how Voice of America was “Digital Last” in its handing of an…
Read More 2 minute read Radio’s Brave New World by James Cridland offers lessons for BBGJuly 8, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary James Cridland has published a thought provoking article on radio. He is the Managing Director…
Read More 11 minute read A Former VOA Correspondent on the Debate Over U.S. International BroadcastingMay 21, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch is providing a forum for discussion on the United States International Communications Reform Act of…
Read More 8 minute read Voice of America English, Ukrainian and Russian services ignored Chairman Royce’s CNN interview from Kyiv urging use of energy leverage against PutinApril 24, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) failed to report on the interview Rep. Ed Royce…
Read More 6 minute read Voice of America not reporting on U.S. Congressman’s threat to journalist – BBC, Russia’s RT, Iran’s Press TV areJanuary 30, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Whether the news is good or bad for the United States or for President Putin,…
Read More 10 minute read The Russian Front – The FederalistJanuary 1, 2014 International Broadcasting Bureau – The Standard for Dysfunction and Defunct in the Federal Government – Information War Lost: The…
Read More 1 minute read RFE/RL counters Russian state media propaganda on events in UkraineDecember 10, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary This has been posted on Facebook by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). Russian state-controlled…
Read More 6 minute read VOA not reporting on Kerry’s tribute to Mazowiecki, as it failed earlier to report on Polish leader’s deathNovember 5, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch already reported that the Voice of America (VOA) had ignored on its English…
Read More 7 minute read Voice of America ignores plight of American Greenpeace activists jailed in RussiaNovember 3, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) is ignoring two American Greenpeace activists jailed in…
Voice of America Management and Syria – Faulty Risk CalculusSeptember 9, 2013 International Broadcasting Bureau – The Standard for Dysfunction and Defunct in the US Government – Faulty Risk Calculus and Other…
Gulf News columnist says Voice of America lost much of its relevanceSeptember 3, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary In a column for Gulf News, a leading English language newspaper of the Gulf region,…
The Schizophrenia By-Product: Gridlock – International Broadcasting Bureau – Can It Get Any Worse? Yes It Can! – Information War LostJuly 13, 2013 The Schizophrenia By-Product: Gridlock – International Broadcasting Bureau – Can It Get Any Worse? Yes It Can! –…
Former CNN executives at Voice of America had no video on San Francisco plane crash, Russia Today video got 33K views as of Sunday eveningJuly 8, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Al Jazeera, Russia Today and BBC had thousands of Facebook “Likes” and Tweets for their…
VOA English has a staff reporter in Istanbul, finallyJune 21, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary (Advisory: This commentary refers only to Voice of America (VOA) English-language coverage of the protests…
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…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost: (Yet Another) Silver Bullet PlaceboFebruary 14, 2013 Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost: (Yet Another) Silver Bullet Placebo by The Federalist As reported by…
Read More 20 minute read Beware of Central Bureaucracy for USIBFebruary 8, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary This BBG Watch commentary on the “21st Century Vision for U.S. Global Media” paper by…
Problems at Voice of America and its News Division outlined in a union articleFebruary 2, 2013 Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employee union, American Federation of Government Employees Local 1812, continues a…
Did Steve Korn resign from CNN and RFE/RL or was he canned both times?January 5, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Steven Korn, the outgoing president and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), insists that…
Was damage to Radio Liberty intentional?October 28, 2012 This BBG Watch Commentary was written by an anonymous employee. How long until the Governors at the Broadcasting…
Broadcasting Board of Governors employees post devastating condemnation of top managementAugust 16, 2012 BBG Watch Commentary In a devastating expose of mismanagement at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and its…
Broadcasting Board of Governors Being UnnoticedJuly 31, 2012 Broadcasting Board of Governors Being Unnoticed A commentary by The Federalist You know where we’re coming from: we…
Keeping Radio Liberty Russian Service director in Moscow will make the job of Putin's secret police much easierJuly 18, 2012 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has a new president and new senior managers, none of whom is a…
NYCLU defends rights of journalist whom Voice of America official wants to drive out of the U.N.July 6, 2012 BBG Watch Commentary The New York Civil Liberties Union asked the United Nations to disclose its procedures for…
Radio Free Asia managers and employees, other BBG broadcasters, oppose merger planJune 5, 2012 BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) plan to merge the grantee-surrogate broadcasters into one large…
Does anyone care about Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty?April 29, 2012 This opinion piece was submitted by a journalist who works at the headquarters of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – FY 2014 Budget Process: Schedule & MilestonesApril 18, 2012 The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB)executives have been using the budget process for…
Reaching hearts and minds used to be VOA's missionMarch 14, 2012 TV is the dinosaur: Back to the future with shortwave and Internet!” by Another Voice I have not…
Conversation about the hypocrisy of it allMarch 12, 2012 BBG/IBB officials hold a self-congratulatory ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary, while the halls are awash with conversation…
VOA Tibetan broadcasters will be fired so friends from CNN can get on government payrollMarch 3, 2012 “We learned this week that no one will be hired from the outside without approval from the 3rd…
BBG Plans Hit Major Rocks and Realities in VOA Central News – The FederalistJanuary 18, 2012 The entities – all the entities – function better as self-contained units, serving their respective missions and intended…