Voice of America news failures on Syria, other stories extend to VOA language services
BBG Watch Commentary No Voice of America language service was found to have posted news from Congress, State…
DYAR and ROBINSON: What went wrong with Voice of America website and news?
BBG Watch Commentary Former Voice of America correspondent David Dyar commented on a recent post by another former…
CUSIB Condemns BBG Shortwave Committee Report for Targeting Vulnerable Radio Audiences for Cuts Rather Than Cutting Waste — PRESS RELEASE
BBG Watch Commentary The independent and nonpartisan Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) issued a press…
Beer – Yes, but no Voice of America report on North Korea sanctions vote in Congress
BBG Watch Commentary SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL STAFFER: “There’s a level of irony here… VOA claiming their journalistic integrity is…
Resistance to reforms equals not enough reach and respect for Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary Resistance to reforms from the entrenched bureaucracy equals not enough respect for Voice of America…
‘American policies are being blasted to bits’ while Voice of America shortwave radio goes silent in Asia
Guest Commentary BBG Watch occasionally publishes guest commentaries. This one is from Victor Goonetilleke, a native of Sri…
BBG Shortwave Committee Chair defends himself against criticism by CUSIB, Radio World reports
BBG Watch Commentary Radio World reported that Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Shortwave Committee Chair Matt Armstrong expressed…
Radio Free Asia listeners in Vietnam upset over abrupt ending of RFA shortwave broadcasts
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Asia (RFA) listeners in Vietnam are upset over the abrupt ending of RFA’s…
Don’t Silence America’s Voice — Belida and Pace Op-Ed
A Guest Commentary BBG Watch occasionally publishes guest commentaries. This one is from Alex Belida and Sonja Pace,…
U.S. agency should do charity drive to bring Voice of America radio back to Asia and Middle East
BBG Watch Commentary This commentary contains elements of satire and sarcasm. If you object to such content, please…
Joe Bruns on radio and new media at BBG and at VOA under USIA
BBG Watch Commentary The lack of adequate advance notice to our audiences is inexcusable, said numerous Voice of…
BBG Governor Matthew Armstrong says ‘You can’t censor the Internet’, DW reports
BBG Watch Commentary Speaking at the Deutsche Welle (DW) Global Media Forum in Bonn last week in a…
BBG, IBB, VOA executives break all 10 commandments
BBG Watch Commentary BBG, IBB, VOA executives break all 10 commandments of good management on (not) announcing bad…
Dropping radio and going all digital: VOA Asia Twitter not updated since May 3
BBG Watch Commentary Executives in charge of the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), which operates radio transmissions for the…
Acting Ukrainian FM meets Voice of America director, Voice of Russia reports
BBG Watch Commentary Acting Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrey Deshchytsya meet with Voice of America Director David Ensor on…
David Ensor on Combating Propaganda in Ukraine with Voice of America programs
BBG Watch Commentary Even though the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) failed to cover a gathering of…
Biden, U.S. Congress delegation not mentioned in VOA video report from Ukraine
BBG Watch Commentary Even though the VOA Charter requires the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America to “present the…
VOA shows thousands of pro-Kremlin troll comments and some RT retweets
BBG Watch Commentary With the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) management allowing posting on the VOA English…
Living In The Past
BBG Watch Commentary We find it ironic that while many rank-and-file Voice of America journalists and other employees…
RT hammers VOA in social media
RT report from earlier today, June 2, 2014, dealing with U.S. news, “Republicans criticize US swap with Taliban,…
Other than misspelled name of Poland’s President, finally a decent VOA report on Obama heading to Europe
BBG Watch Commentary While many U.S. and international media outlets were posting full length reports and news analyses…
Voice of America to target Americans despite ban on funding domestic news distribution, critics say
BBG Watch Commentary In a politically unwise press release, which according to critics at best violates the spirit…
How to spot a Russian Twitter troll, Ukraine@war
BBG Watch Commentary “In the style of war that Putin fights, influencing the public opinion plays a very…
RFE/RL praised for StoryMap, multimedia reporting comparisons with VOA and DW
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) “made this brilliant interactive map of Moscow’s coercive diplomacy using the open source…
NYT with 11.8M Twitter followers worries, VOA News with 103K behind UN Peacekeeping with 119K
BBG Watch Commentary According to BuzzFeed article, “Exclusive: New York Times Internal Report Painted Dire…
RFE/RL And VOA Affiliate Stations Forced Off The Air In Ukraine, IBB Ignored Lithuanian AM Option
BBG Watch Commentary As predicted by many critics of the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), the Broadcasting Board of…
Voice of America posts tweets from Russia’s RT photographer who mocked Michelle Obama
BBG Watch Commentary In a clear violation of its congressionally-approved Charter, the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America reposts…
BBG can be proud of its journalists working under defunct bureaucracy
BBG Watch Commentary Not all is defunct at the Voice of America (VOA) and the Broadcasting Board of…
Shortwave radio – getting message across borders without censorship
BBG Watch Commentary and Guest Open Letter International radio broadcaster Keith Perron has written an open letter to…
Voice of America English News Continues to Ignore Congressional Visit to Ukraine, Call to Reform VOA
BBG Watch Commentary Even though U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and…
In less than grammatical English, rudderless Voice of America adds English lessons to its news mission
A Guest Commentary From A Former Voice of America Journalist I looked at the Voice of America (VOA)…
Is VOA hobbling?
BBG Watch Commentary The latest example of VOA’s hobbled state was observed on Sunday, April 20, 2014. VOA’s…
Is Voice of America hobbling along? – Ariel Cohen, Blanquita Cullum, David Ensor, Dan Robinson respond
BBG Watch Commentary At the Heritage Foundation panel discussion today (April 21, 2014) on “Propaganda, Disinformation, and Dirty…
Government Executive quotes John Lenczowski and BBG Watch about BBG problems in Russia
BBG Watch Commentary Government Executive website, govexec.com, quoted from John Lenczowski’s Wall Street Journal op-ed and BBG Watch…
The Master Practitioner
International Broadcasting Bureau – Defining Success By Being Dysfunctional and Defunct – Information War Lost: The Master Practitioner By The Federalist…
Voice of America English news site ignores Kerry and Stengel, equates Obama with Putin
BBG Watch Commentary We found it interesting that Voice of America (VOA) English news website ignored the swearing-in…
BBC World News has ten times more Facebook Fans than Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary VOA Facebook Page – 561k Likes BBC World News Facebook Page – 5.5m…
A Map, Malice and Mission Impossible
International Broadcasting Bureau – We Define Success By Being Dysfunctional and Defunct – Information War Lost: A Map, Malice and…
The War on Information, a view from union of journalists and other BBG employees
BBG Watch Commentary The American Federation of Government Employees, Local 1812, a union representing federal employees of the…
Voice of America – Yesterday’s News Tomorrow – 24 Hours Late on Moscow Anti-Censorship Protest
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America English news website was more than 24 hours late in posting a…
RT, Voice of Russia report at length on content of Obama-Putin call, hours later Voice of America homepage states they have not yet spoken
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of Russia reported at 4:15 PM EDT that President Obama and President Putin spoke…
Voice of America English news, most of its language services fail to report on anti-Kremlin protest in Moscow
BBG Watch Commentary UPDATE: VOA English news website finally posted a report on the Sunday anti-censorship, anti-Putin demonstration…
Radio Liberty Russian Service Director warns of new Russian law restricting online and other media
BBG Watch Commentary At a recent Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) panel, no one in Washington picked up…
WP: Moscow turns off Voice of America radio — once already silenced by U.S.
BBG Watch Commentary Washington Post correspondent in Moscow Kathy Lally reports on the Russian government’s decision to stop…
After 28 Years, Spandau Ballet Returns to US — But Can Rudderless VOA Also Deliver Real News?
BBG Watch Commentary This lengthy Voice of America report, “After 28 Years, Spandau Ballet Returns to US,” was…
Voice of America removes and later corrects controversial map recognizing annexation of Crimea by Russia
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America Map, Posted April 7, 2014 A map posted on U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice…
Crimea no longer part of Ukraine on Voice of America map
BBG Watch Commentary A map posted on U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) news website no longer shows…
Step Up!
BBG Watch Commentary With their usual tact and people skills that have made them one of the worst…
Ukrainian Girl’s Video Goes Viral On YouTube | Voice of America report
BBG Watch Recommends Voice of America (VOA) Ukrainian Service interviewed Yulia Marushevska, a university student in Ukraine, who…
Appeals from Congress to BBG to give radio to Ukraine and Russia serious consideration likely to be ignored by staff
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists, former Minister of Communications of Lithuania, and…