Defunct BBG Board to bite the dust — still no change a year later
BBG Watch Commentary A year ago, on December 1, 2016, BBG Watch reported: “Defunct BBG Board to bite…
ROBINSON: Toxic Atmosphere at Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Media In a two-part article published in the USC Center on Public Diplomacy CPD Blog, former…
Voice of America director informed in June 2016 about obscene Facebook posts by VOA reporters
BBG Watch Commentary As early as in June 2016, Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett was informed…
‘Quagmire at the BBG’ still awaits Trump reforms, former VOA correspondent explains why
BBG Watch Media In a new article published in the USC Center on Public Diplomacy CPD Blog, former…
Speaking Up for VOA Mandarin Service Journalists at VOA Town Hall
BBG Watch Commentary Speaking up at the VOA Town Hall on Friday, November 17 for Voice of America…
VOA and BBG Management Ignored Repeated Warnings About Hateful Social Media Posts
BBG Watch Commentary The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) is an independent, nongovernmental organization which…
Broadcasting Board of Governors Has Significant Cyber Security Deficiencies Year After Year
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) federal agency in charge of the Voice of America…
Full Meltdown Mode for Voice of America and BBG
OPINION Full Meltdown Mode Broadcasting Board of Governors and Voice of America: Information War Lost By…
International Federation of Journalists asks for explanation of proposed firing of Voice of America Mandarin broadcasters
BBG Watch Commentary The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the world’s largest organization of journalists, has asked for…
Union explains why BBG remains worst-managed federal agency
BBG Watch Commentary In two recent posts on its website and Facebook page, the union representing many of…
China, Iran, Cuba, North Korea
OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn China, Iran, Cuba, North Korea…
Voice of America like DNC was strongly for Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) was for Hillary Clinton in 2016, as was the Democratic…
Low morale is an existential threat to BBG mission, union says
BBG Watch Commentary The American Federation of Government Employees union, AFGE Local 1812, representing federal employees at the…
Gap between BBG and next worse agency in employee morale widens in 2017 FEVS under Lansing and Bennett
BBG Watch Commentary Here is another take on the disastrous employee morale results for the Broadcasting Board of…
Broadcasting Board of Governors Total Meltdown Part One
OPINION Total Meltdown Part One By The Federalist These are bad times for the recent political…
BBG workers don’t buy ‘good news’ on morale from CEO Lansing
BBG Watch Commentary Rank and file federal employees of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) don’t seem to…
BBG sank deeper into last place in employee morale under Lansing and Bennett, 2017 OPM FEVS results show
BBG Watch Commentary The Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) detailed results for 2017, which were released by the…
Reporter told VOA to ignore pressure from China on Guo Wengui
EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that one of the more experienced Voice of America (VOA)…
Chinese lash out on Twitter at Voice of America bosses
BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE Comments from Chinese users of social media are full of strong condemnation for the…
Voice of America censors a report on Guo Wengui
BBG Watch Commentary In a news report without much substantive information, written in a style similar to Soviet…
Do Voice of America and BBG officials have conflicts of interest in China?
BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, a U.S.-based international human rights group that opposes forced abortion…
Video critical of Voice of America director gets thousands of views in China
BBG Watch Commentary Changqing Cao, a U.S. based independent Chinese journalist and political commentator who has a wide…
BBG Watch passes 10 million hits mark as crisis deepens at Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary Our watch dog website, BBGWatch.com, has passed the 10 million hits mark yesterday since it…
SOLIDARITY WITH VOA MANDARIN FIVE – LABOR DAY 2017
BBG Watch Commentary “Out of the 5 senior VOA Mandarin Service journalists who were placed on administrative leave…
Zhao Yan on Guo Wengui Voice of America scandal: The Truth is the Life of News
BBG Watch Commentary Former New York Times Beijing Bureau employee, Chinese journalist and political commentator Zhao Yan, told…
Voice of America interrogates its Chinese TV host for wearing a white flower
BBG Watch Commentary In what could be a plot of a surreal but all too true Franz Kafka…
BBG Chair Ken Weinstein retweets on VOA personality flipping off anti-Iran regime demonstrators
BBG Watch Commentary In one of the most bizarre incidents at the already dysfunctional and “practically defunct” (Secretary…
More of the Big Lie
OPINION More of the Big Lie and Other Items of Note US Government International Media Information War Lost…
Dr Sasha Gong and Huchen Zhang on VOA Guo Wengui Interview Controversy VIDEO
BBG Watch Commentary Two of “VOA Mandarin Five” journalists suspended with pay by Voice of America director Amanda…
Can Things Get Any Worse at Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)?
OPINION Can Things Get Any Worse? US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist…
CUSIB’s Ann Noonan renews calls for congressional investigation of VOA and BBG management
BBG Watch Commentary In a speech delivered at a largely Chinese American event in Flushing, New York organized…
No live VOA Comey feed, dismal audience
BBG Watch Commentary Unlike BBC, Al Jazeera, RT, DW and almost all other major international and U.S. news…
U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America allows comments calling for killing gays
BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), managed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
Former USIA Worldnet director Michael Pack mentioned as a candidate for BBG CEO position
BBG Watch Commentary If the Trump White House nominates someone to head the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG),…
BBG, IBB, and VOA senior bureaucracy protects itself by eliminating ‘administrative vacancies’
BBG Watch Commentary BBG, IBB, and VOA senior bureaucracy protects itself by eliminating “administrative vacancies” while proposing to…
A Good Swift Kick Might Save BBG from Self-Destruction
OPINION A Good Swift Kick US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist Professor Martha Bayles…
Love Triangle on Voice of America shows creative use (waste) of tax dollars
BBG Watch Commentary Tax-funded Voice of America (VOA), which costs U.S. taxpayers quarter of a billion dollars a…
Voice of America Quiet Newsroom
BBG Watch Commentary A Voice of America (VOA) reporter says: “It is so quiet at times…
Remember The VOA Mandarin Five
BBG Watch Commentary We offer the two official Voice of America (VOA) and Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
Two Faces of BBG Management
BBG Watch Commentary The senior mangement of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has at least two faces.…
BBG — an agency of directors, managers and CEO
BBG Watch Commentary As federal employees of the ailing Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), known throughout the U.S.…
Chinese Americans protest against censorship with a mock funeral at Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary @zhaoyan818 棺材上还有来自低于光之兄弟群体的星光层的存有：棺才上那个弧形的光源 pic.twitter.com/nO766Sp8AV — Vivian (@wy513888) May 8, 2017 A group of Chinese Americans staged…
Telling It Like It Is – BBG and VOA Leaders Behind Low Staff Morale
OPINION Telling It Like It Is US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist…
Solidarity with the VOA Mandarin Five as BBG employees rate senior leaders
BBG Watch Commentary An appeal from Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO and Director John F. Lansing to…
Damage to Voice of America reputation in China is ‘unbelievable,’ VOA director was told
BBG Watch Commentary As Voice of America director Amanda Bennett suspends and investigates VOA China journalists, shouldn’t she…
South China Morning Post: VOA Mandarin Service staffers ‘suspended’
BBG Watch Media Commentary The South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong English-language newspaper, has reported on five…
Questions for Frank Sesno to ask BBG CEO John Lansing
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has drafted some questions which we hope former CNN correspondent Frank Sesno will…
Chance for China press freedom supporters to ask BBG CEO about censorship at Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary On Monday, May 1, supporters of press freedom in China and in the United States…
Cut The Dead Wood at Broadcasting Board of Governors
OPINION Cut The Dead Wood And Save The Agency’s Mission US Government International Media Information War: Lost…
RT Buries VOA in LIVE Facebook Views
BBG Watch Commentary Comparing Voice of America (VOA) 2016 U.S. presidential election night LIVE Facebook views (41) on…