Franklin Delano Roosevelt – BBG and USAGM Watch

Sanford “Sandy” Ungar, a journalist, author, and educator, served as the 24th Director of the Voice of America. Prior to becoming VOA Director, Ungar served as Dean of the School of Communication at American University and had an extensive and varied career as an international journalist. He has worked at Foreign Policy magazine, The Washington Post, The Atlantic magazine, UPI, Newsweek magazine, and NPR. After leaving VOA, Ungar was president of Goucher College in Towson, Maryland from 2001 to 2014. In spring 2015 Ungar joined Georgetown University, where he is director of The Free Speech Project.

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Asking About Voice of America’s Stalin Peace Prize Winner May Be McCarthyism or Merely Amusing, Former VOA Director Said

April 11, 2022

Former Voice of America (VOA) director Sanford J. Ungar, who served under President Clinton from 1999 to 2001, said…

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HISTORY How Congress Exposed, Defunded and Stopped Domestic U.S. Government Propaganda in 1943

June 22, 2020

During World War II, the federal government’s Office of War Information (OWI), where Voice of America (VOA) radio…

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Unknown history of Russia’s propaganda efforts targeting Americans

December 18, 2018

BBG Watch Commentary Recent media reports about Russian propaganda efforts to target African Americans expose a practice of…

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Voice of America and Internment of Japanese Americans

February 20, 2017

Introduction With today’s 75th anniversary of the signing of the presidential executive order to imprison Japanese Americans during…

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Voice of America History – Communist Infiltration During World War II

July 28, 2015

BBG Watch History During World War II, the Voice of America (VOA) operated within a mega propaganda agency…