BBG Chairman Jeff Shell: Nurturing Internet freedom in China
BBG Watch Commentary In a well-written Letter to the Editor, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Jeff Shell…
Voice of Russia name gone? – Putin goes for highly successful Russia Today brand-name in reorganization of state-run media
BBG Watch Commentary President Vladimir Putin has ordered the merger of the RIA Novosti news agency and the…
If Richard Lobo did not make his agency ‘defunct’ – who did? Hillary Clinton?
BBG Watch Commentary As reported on the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) website, at an agency-wide staff meeting on…
Voice of America repeats Russian politician’s attack on Greenpeace without retort, misleads world on U.S. law
BBG Watch Commentary “Greenpeace’s actions were just to create a political scandal and draw more attention to Greenpeace.…
Voice of America news failures offer audience gaining opportunities for Al Jazeera, state-funded media in Russia and China
BBG Watch Commentary In an op-ed for Digital Journal, former Voice of America (VOA) executive Ted Lipien pointed…
Voice of America ignores Presidential Proclamation on International Day of the Girl, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) English news website was late and superficial in reporting on…
Shutdowns, Threats and a Car Chase
International Broadcasting Bureau – The Standard for Dysfunctional and Defunct in the Federal Government – Shutdowns, Threats and a Car…
Reforming U.S. international broadcasting agency won’t be easy as entrenched bureaucrats try to hold on to their jobs
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the federal agency in charge of U.S. international broadcasting,…
Richard Stengel leaving Time for State Department public diplomacy job with duties at BBG
BBG Watch Commentary Politico and The New York Times reported that Richard Stengel, the top editor of Time…
BBG Chairman Jeff Shell will head Universal, reports say
BBG Watch Commentary The Los Angeles Times and other media reported that Jeff Shell, a longtime Comcast Corp.…
Why Secretary Kerry has not yet designated anyone to represent him at BBG meetings?
BBG Watch Commentary As far as we know, Secretary of State John Kerry has not yet designated anyone…
Russian human rights leader Lyudmila Alexeeva returns to Radio Liberty
LINK TO VIDEO on RFERL Site. LINK TO VIDEO ON YouTUBE. BBG Watch Commentary After a long absence…
CUSIB calls for more Congressional hearings and reform of BBG, blames most problems on IBB bureaucracy
BBG Watch Commentary In a press release issued today, the independent and nonpartisan Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting…
Congressional Panel Criticizes Management of US International Broadcasting, VOA reports
Congressional Panel Criticizes Management of US International Broadcasting Cindy Saine, Voice of America June 26, 2013 CAPITOL HILL…
Governor Victor Ashe welcomes House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Victor Ashe welcomed the House Foreign Affairs Committee…
U.S. Rep. Engel: Voice of America was instrumental during the Cold War and is instrumental now
BBG Watch Commentary In his opening statement at the House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing, “Broadcasting Board of…
James Glassman to say that Broadcasting Board of Governors is not defunct, to call for putting Voice of America into the State Department
BBG Watch Commentary In a testimony prepared for delivery later today for a hearing of the House Committee…
On Snowden and other news, foreigners get America’s story in English from Al Jazeera and Russia Today, not from Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary When it comes to almost any major international news story, even those originating in the…
On Snowden and other news, foreigners get America's story in English from Al Jazeera and Russia Today, not from Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary When it comes to almost any major international news story, even those originating in the…
Turkish protesters ask for help to counter media censorship
BBG Watch Commentary An appeal posted on Facebook by pro-democracy protesters in Turkey talks about local media censorship…
Sonenshine to leave public diplomacy post at State, sources told BBG Watch
BBG Watch Exclusive News Report and Commentary BBG Watch has learned that the Under Secretary of State for…
Dennis Mulhaupt leaves BBG, no quorum if Michael Lynton continues to be a no show at meetings
BBG Watch Commentary A Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Dennis Mulhaupt has informed the White House that…
IBB invited speaker who mocked former BBG member Hillary Clinton; some BBG governors furious with IBB's Director Lobo
BBG Watch Commentary The International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) has invited and later announced it will disinvite a Roman…
Morale boosting plan made some BBG employees highly skeptical
BBG Watch Commentary One employee said that he was literally sick in his stomach listening to and watching…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost: Dysfunctional, Defunct “Stupid News”
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost: Dysfunctional, Defunct “Stupid News” by The Federalist Anyone who has held a…
Lyudmila Alexeeva: Saving Radio Liberty in Russia Should Have Been Done The Day Before Yesterday
BBG Watch Commentary Supporters of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), including a preeminent Russian human rights leader Lyudmila…
Is unexplained absence of Broadcasting Board of Governors interim chair due to alleged conflict of interest?
BBG Watch Commentary While the remaining members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) have been working hard…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – IBB: The Babble-Rama
BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – IBB: The Babble-Rama by The Federalist Before…
Hillary Clinton's unfinished business and new direction at BBG
BBG Watch Commentary Writing about the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Robert Schadler, a senior fellow for Public…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Tuning Out and Gone
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Tuning Out and Gone by The Federalist The behavior of senior…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost: (Yet Another) Silver Bullet Placebo
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost: (Yet Another) Silver Bullet Placebo by The Federalist As reported by…
Unique Role of U.S.-Funded Surrogate Broadcasters
BBG Watch Commentary Unique Role of U.S.-Funded Surrogate Broadcasters by Ted Lipien U.S. Government-funded surrogate broadcasting, which started…
SHINING THE LIGHT ON AN OPAQUE BUREAUCRACY
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employee union, American Federation of Government Employees Local 1812, commented in a…
Beware of Central Bureaucracy for USIB
BBG Watch Commentary This BBG Watch commentary on the “21st Century Vision for U.S. Global Media” paper by…
An alternative view of the BBG Board
An alternative view of the BBG Board By a long-time employee AND taxpayer We’ve heard the part-time…
In defense of Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary The Bureaucracy at the Broadcasting Board of Governors, centered largely within the BBG’s International Broadcasting…
U.S. media on failing revenge of Washington bureaucracy at Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary When one hears of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comment that the Broadcasting Board…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost: The Secretary Weighs In – Again, Part Two
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost: The Secretary Weighs In – Again, Part Two by The Federalist …
Taking issue with Clinton's claim of U.S. international broadcasting being 'dysfunctional'
BBG Watch Commentary One of our guest commentators who writes under the pen name of Jane Doe because…
Static at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Jackson Diehl writes in The Washington Post
BBG Watch Commentary Jackson Diehl, deputy editorial page editor of The Washington Post, whose extensive experience in reporting…
Clinton: If we don't have an up-to-date, modern, effective Broadcasting Board of Governors, we shouldn't have one at all
BBG Watch Commentary Hillary Clinton gave the final major speech Thursday as the outgoing Secretary of State at…
Union criticizes executive staff attacks on BBG members
In a new article, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employee union, American Federation of Government Employees Local…
Case against informational appeasement of Putin's Russia
BBG Watch Commentary An important article by Edward Lucas published by the Washington, DC-based Center for European Policy…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost: The Secretary Weighs In – Again
(For more discussion on Secretary Clinton’s comments and the future of BBG see: “Fox, Marks, Perron, and…
Fox, Marks, Perron, and others on Clinton and 'defunct' U.S. international broadcasting
BBG Watch Commentary With the publication of this FoxNews.com article, “Clinton pushes for more broadcasting of pro-US message,…
Clinton – 'We have abdicated the international broadcasting arena.' Why?
BBG Watch Commentary SECRETARY CLINTON: “And finally, we need to do a better job conveying a counter-narrative to…
Clinton – Broadcasting Board of Governors is practically defunct
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today that the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the federal agency in charge…
Sex and drugs trump human rights on new Russian home page of Radio Liberty
BBG Watch Commentary On the International Human Rights Day, December 10, Masha Gessen’s Radio Liberty, also known in…
Fired Radio Liberty reporter Kristina Gorelik receives Moscow Helsinki Group Journalism Prize
BBG Watch Commentary Kristina Gorelik (Кристина Горелик), fired last September by American taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)…
From Radio Liberty to "Radio Gessen" – Milestones of the Road Map
BBG Watch Commentary From Radio Liberty to “Radio Gessen” – Milestones of the Road Map An insider’s report…