BBG Digital Meltdown: The Perfect Storm
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Digital Meltdown: The Perfect Storm US Government International Media Information War: Lost…
‘Debilitating’ Voice of America digital system failure continues
BBG Watch Commentary One week later, as of Friday, the digital DALET system crisis at the U.S. taxpayer-funded…
VOA Director on Digital Failure
BBG Watch In Their Own Words Voice of America (VOA) Director Amanda Bennett has remarked on the catastrophic…
HELLE DALE A Year Later, Still No Justice for Chinese Voice of America Journalists
BBG Watch Media Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, has a new…
Voice of America director needs to shelve her rhetoric on North Korea
OPINION North Korea Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost By The Federalist …
Is Voice of America again afraid of Katyn?
Guest Commentary By Ted Lipien I noticed through an online search of their news websites that neither the…
China dissident Qiao Moo gets a brush-off from VOA
Mr. Qiao Mu, a dissident Chinese academic, previously a professor at the Beijing Foreign Studies University and a…
Employee Survey Time 2018 at Broadcasting Board of Governors
OPINION Employee Survey Time 2018 US International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist It’s time…
BBG employees will assess senior leaders in 2018 FEVS morale survey after China incident
BBG Watch Commentary Three Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service journalists are still on forced paid leave imposed…
SASHA GONG – Spineless Federal Bureaucrats CAVED To Chinese Pressure To Censor Voice Of America
BBG Watch Media Commentary Voice of America (VOA) journalist Dr. Sasha Gong, one of the three journalists who…
VOA Director receives achievement award as complaints of poor leadership and censorship multiply
BBG Watch Commentary As Amanda Bennett, director of the Voice of America (VOA), was receiving the Lifetime Achievement…
Bennett Denies There was Chinese Pressure on Guo Wengui VOA Interview
BBG Watch Commentary Bennett Denies There was Chinese Pressure on Guo Wengui VOA Interview …
Public appearances by Voice of America Director Amanda Bennett should be interesting
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett has two scheduled public appearances in Washington, DC…
Former RFE/RL Kazakh editor criticizes management
BBG Watch Commentary Young journalists, most of them women, from countries without free media are criticizing senior management…
Dangers Chinese Americans face working for Voice of America and Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Media Commentary On April 19, 2017, reportedly on orders of the senior management of U.S. taxpayer-funded,…
What good can speaking Chinese do for boss of Voice of America to China, VOA Director asks
BBG Watch Commentary Remarks to the Chinese American staff made this week by Voice of America (VOA) director…
CUSIB on Voice of America China Service and the Need for a Congressional Investigation
BBG Watch Commentary The independent and nonpartisan NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) has a…
CUSIB Statement on the Appointment of Ernie Torriero as China Branch Chief for Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary The independent, non-partisan NGO, Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) has reacted to the news…
Erotica Twitter Feed Had VOA Director, Her Deputy As Followers
BBG Watch Commentary An erotica Twitter feed linked to a Voice of America (VOA) broadcaster had VOA director…
The BBG Troll Farm
OPINION The BBG Troll Farm US Government International Media Information War Lost By The…
Just The Facts?!? on BBG
OPINION Just The Facts?!? US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist The…
Another former RFE/RL woman journalist blasts senior management
BBG Watch Commentary Asem Tokayeva, another woman journalist who had worked for U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe /…
Nepotism at RFE/RL
BBG Commentary We are receiving more and more complaints from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) employees about nepotism…
Message for Speaker Ryan from Dissident RFE/RL Journalists
BBG Watch Commentary Dissident Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists want to tell House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI)…
Public Diplomacy Challenges for the Trump Administration
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) has posted multiple raw videos without any commentary or context…
Putin Won By Bringing ‘Strength’ to Russia, RFE/RL Head Tom Kent tells BBG
BBG Watch Commentary It would have been inconceivable for the head of U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe and…
Why Putin Will Win, RFE/RL President Tom Kent Explains
BBG Watch Commentary On March 14, 2018, Tom Kent, President of U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), explained…
Ann Noonan Addresses BBG on China
BBG Watch Commentary Ann Noonan, Executive Director of the independent NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB –…
#ReformBBG — BBG, VOA, RFE/RL Employees Ask for Immediate Reforms
BBG Watch Commentary According to the announcement posted on the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) website, the Broadcasting…
Dissident VOA Persian journalists decry mismanagement and loss of objectivity
BBG Watch Commentary A group of Voice of America (VOA) Persian Service journalists has prepared a memorandum in…
Hit With $24M Cut, BBG Not Even Mentioned in FY 2019 White House Budget Summary
BBG Watch Commentary The mismanaged and ailing Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and its mission are not even…
Senior managers at RFE/RL failed to earn respect, alienated staff, journalists say
BBG Watch Commentary Respect must be earned by managers and that’s something that senior executives in charge of…
Vaclav Havel Fellows condemn management practices at RFE/RL
BBG Watch Commentary In response to the recent developments around რადიო თავისუფლება, the Georgian Service of Radio Free…
Respected RFE/RL Tbilisi Bureau Chief Marina Vashakmadze resigns in protest against senior management
BBG Watch Commentary Dr. Marina Vashakmadze, a well-known and highly respected journalist and media scholar in Georgia, has…
Highly-respected journalist David Kakabadze fired by RFE/RL bosses
BBG Watch Commentary The senior management of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), led by RFE/RL president…
Another former RFE/RL newswoman Shahida Tulaganova slams management
BBG Watch Commentary UK-based award-winning investigative reporter Shahida Tulaganova joined another award-winning journalist Khadija Ismayilova, a former political…
Renowned newswoman Khadija Ismayilova blasts RFE/RL bosses after quitting
BBG Watch Commentary After quitting in frustration her freelancer position with U.S. tax-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio…
BBG employees blame bosses for poor communication on shutdown
BBG Watch Commentary Whenever there is any kind of crisis, the management in charge of the Broadcasting Board…
Broadcasting Board of Governors Total Meltdown on Iran
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Total Meltdown Mode on Iran: 4.0 US Government International Media By…
‘The Greatest Scam’ in Washington are salaries of failed BBG executives
OPINION The Greatest Scam in Washington Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Lost By The Federalist…
Voice of America to Iranians: Government Wants You to Behave
BBG Watch Commentary We repost two recent Voice of America news reports: a VOA News video report with…
Most viewed in 2017: Voice of America China Guo Wengui Part I – BBG Watch
BBG Watch Commentary “Voice of America China Guo Wengui Part I” was the most viewed post on the…
BBG Watch guest commentator Dan Robinson was one of the most read on USC Center on Public Diplomacy Blog
BBG Watch One of BBG Watch’s guest commentators, former senior Voice of America (VOA) correspondent Dan Robinson, is…
VOA Mandarin Service Journalists Need Your Support During Christmas Holidays
BBG Watch Commentary Even though Christmas is here and New Year is just around the corner, this is…
Information Statecraft in National Security Strategy is a rebuke of Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary While the dysfunctional and mismanaged Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) federal agency in charge of…
Kenneth Timmerman: Toxic Culture At Voice Of America Exposed In Discrimination Lawsuit
BBG Watch Commentary Kenneth R. Timmerman, an investigative journalist, Republican political activist, president of Foundation for Democracy in…
Broadcasting Board of Governors Total Meltdown Mode: BBG 2.0
OPINION Total Meltdown Mode: BBG 2.0 Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost By The Federalist…
Biden ignores RFE/RL, VOA, BBG in Foreign Affairs article on Russian propaganda
OPINION An important article in Foreign Affairs on Russia’s propaganda and disinformation against the West, “How to Stand…
Broadcasting Board of Governors declared worst place to work
BBG Watch Commentary The Partnership for Public Service has released its 2017 Best Places to Work in the…
Steve Goldstein sworn-in today as Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy will sit in for Tillerson on BBG Board
BBG Watch Commentary Irwin Steven (Steve) Goldstein was sworn in today, December 4, 2017, as Under Secretary for…