Steven Korn to leave RFE/RL within 45 days, sources say
BBG Watch Commentary According to sources inside the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) headquarters, at a meeting in…
Russian and international media on Radio Liberty crisis, Dec. 13, 2012
Shortly after his executives fired dozens of Radio Liberty journalists in Moscow last September, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty…
Radio Liberty in Exile journalists sent their comments and analysis to BBG members
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that a group of fired Radio Liberty journalists and those who…
Russian and international media on Radio Liberty crisis, Dec. 12, 2012
Shortly after his executives fired dozens of Radio Liberty journalists in Moscow last September, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty…
Radio Liberty disappears from most cited radios list in Russia
BBG Watch Commentary Just two months after Masha Gessen took over as the new director of Radio Liberty’s…
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…
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is starting to look more like Playboy and National Enquirer
BBG Watch Commentary Sexually suggestive videos and racy photos — Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is changing its…
Radio Liberty Russian website stops showing number of visitors to hide precipitous decline
UPDATE After the publication of this BBG Watch article, the Radio Liberty Russian website resumed showing number of…
Radio Liberty offers young Kazakh Muslims American-style videos with sexual content, causes outrage
BBG Watch Commentary “I don’t understand why RFE/RL produced these obscene videos using American taxpayers’ money.” — Kazakh…
Dr. Igor Sutyagin, former political prisoner in Putin's Russia, explains why serious news seekers stopped using Radio Liberty Russian website
BBG Watch Commentary After the American management of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) headed by President and CEO…
Breaking News – Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty Board plans to hear directly from fired Radio Liberty journalists
BBG Watch Commentary Members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Board of Directors…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Thanksgiving Holiday Gifting
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Thanksgiving Holiday Gifting by The Federalist How do you…
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…
Former editor Lyudmila Telen pained by catastrophic audience drop for Radio Liberty's Russian website
BBG Watch Commentary Ludmila Telen (Телень, Людмила Олеговна – Russian Wikipedia), an award-winning Russian journalist who was fired…
Russian and international media continue to report on Radio Liberty crisis
BBG Watch Commentary After Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) fired more than 30 Radio Liberty journalists in Moscow,…
Russian media report on launching of Radio Liberty in Exile news website SvobodaNew.com
Interfax, the biggest non-governmental Russian news agency, reported the launching of SvobodaNew.com, the news and information website set…
RFE/RL management blocks employee access to Radio Liberty in Exile website SvobodaNew.com
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and the management of BBG-supervised Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Slip Sliding Away
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Slip Sliding Away by The Federalist We now see…
Obama-Putin phone call ignored by new Radio Liberty website
As of Wednesday morning Moscow time, the new Radio Liberty website has posted no news on its home…
UK-based Russia expert Masha Karp analyzes Radio Liberty's demise
Masha Karp is a trustee of Rights in Russia and a London-based freelance journalist with a special interest in relations between Russia…
Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost: A Thousand Words in a Picture
Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost: A Thousand Words in a Picture by The Federalist (We are…
U.S. Still Needs Radio for Public Diplomacy in the Internet Age – WPR
Tom Woods, World Politics Review analyst, wrote that during the last presidential debate, which was focused on foreign…
A New Plan for New Radio Liberty
BBG Watch Commentary A New Plan for New Radio Liberty by Lev Roitman, RFE/RL Senior Commentator (1974-2004) We…
Digital investment wasted by incompetence and strategic blunders
Digital investment in Radio Liberty wasted by incompetence and strategic blunders A commentary by Ivan Trefilov, former Radio…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – The Gifting Continues – BBG Press Releases October 2012
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – The Gifting Continues – BBG Press Releases October 2012…
Fired Radio Liberty journalists invite RFE/RL president Korn to meet with them in Moscow, plan protest events
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Liberty-in-Exile group (Radio Svoboda-in-Exile) is planning a number of events and protests to coincide…
Union Calls For Congressional Hearings On The BBG's Erratic Leadership,
The AFGE Local 1812 union representing employees of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has called for congressional…
Corti and Lipien in National Review – Radio Liberty silenced by Washington
BBG Watch Commentary In an article published in National Review Online, Mario Corti and Ted Lipien argue that…
Letter from Prague – Questions for Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty President Steven Korn
BBG Watch Commentary – a Letter from Prague by an anonymous Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist My…
Radio Liberty Russian website going to the dogs
According to a report prepared by former Radio Liberty employees, the station’s Russian Service website is not being…
New Radio Liberty head in Russia in charge of digital transition lost website visitors at previous employer, report shows
BBG Watch Commentary President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Steven Korn tells anyone who would listen that Russian…
Washington Times publishes op-ed by former journalism student intern at Radio Liberty
The Washington Times newspaper has published an op-ed by a young Russian university student Kirill Filimonov, in which…
Radio Liberty listeners appeal to President Obama to bring back fired Radio Liberty journalists, restore radio programs
We demand that a compromise with Russian authorities be found so that Radio Svoboda continues medium-wave broadcasting. We…
Fired Radio Liberty journalists plan to file class action lawsuit
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that some of the fired Radio Liberty journalists are planning to…
CUSIB Joins the Rally Cry for Radio Liberty Supporters
Reposted from CUSIB website. October 10, 2012 For Immediate Release CUSIB Joins the Rally Cry for Radio Liberty…
Dismissed Radio Liberty Moscow Journalists Sent Their Appeal to U.S. Administration, Congress, and Mitt Romney
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that a committee of 35 journalists and other staffers out of…
'Special operation' at Radio Liberty Moscow – Part Two
“I remember guards at our beloved RFE/RL Moscow editorial office and frozen eyes of bureaucrats saying ‘Thank you,…
Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost: Iran
Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost: Iran by The Federalist They’re at it again. The gift that…
Former Radio Liberty Russian Service director Mario Corti – RFE/RL management turns radio listeners and visitors to its website in Russia into anti-Americans
Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty Management Turns Radio Listeners and Visitors To Its Website in Russia Into…
Fired Radio Liberty Moscow employees included famous journalists and digital media experts
BBG Watch Commentary The new director of the Radio Liberty Russian Service, Russian American journalist, writer and gay…
Breaking News – Gorbachev, other Russian opposition leaders defend fired Radio Liberty journalists, criticize U.S. management and Obama administration
BBG Watch Commentary Former Soviet President and author of glasnost and perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, was surprised by the…
Broadcasting Board of Governors members to meet with Secretary of State Clinton amid doubts about their leadership
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that members of the bipartisan Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), who…
Ending the Ponzi Scheme at the Voice of America
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employee union AFGE Local 1812 has posted on its website another article…
ODDI Oddities – Broadcasting Board of Governors Job Guaranteed for Life?
ODDI ODDITIES A BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS JOB GUARANTEED FOR LIFE? By Quo Vadis (Marie Ciliberti) Recently, a…
Broadcasting Board of Governors builds a costly mousetrap that doesn't work
BBG Watch Commentary New media innovators at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) built their “Weapons of…
Broadcasting Board of Governors Being Unnoticed
Broadcasting Board of Governors Being Unnoticed A commentary by The Federalist You know where we’re coming from: we…
A Report on the Current State of Voice of America Mandarin Broadcasts to China
BBG Watch Commentary In early 2011, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) proposed to eliminate Voice of…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – BBG Strategy: We’re Abandoning Our Mission and We Don’t Care!
Broadcasting Board of Governors – BBG Strategy: We’re Abandoning Our Mission and We Don’t Care! by The Federalist Let’s get…
The role of the U.S. Congress must take precedence over any self-serving machinations by the executives of the BBG
A Guest Commentary by Edite Lynch The role of the U.S. Congress must take precedence over any self-serving…
Broadcasting Board of Governors misleads Congress on shortwave radio reception in China
BBG Watch has learned that Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) executives were on Capitol Hill last week trying…