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…
Broadcasting Board of Governors emails document VOA executive's move against independent reporter
BBG Watch Commentary Internal Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) emails posted online by Inner City Press reporter Matthew…
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…
Question for IBB Director Lobo's "Viewpoint" blog: what will you do about VOA request to deny UN press accreditation to American journalist?
BBG Watch Commentary The International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) Director Richard Lobo has launched his own blog: “Viewpoint. Dick…
CUSIB's Tala Dowlatshahi featured in The Iranian Women in American Journalism Project (IWAJ)
Republished from CUSIB website. The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – www.cusib.org) board member Tala Dowlatshahi was…
CUSIB's Ted Lipien asks BBG to respect rights of independent journalist Matthew Russell Lee
BBG Watch Commentary The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) co-founder and former Voice of America (VOA) acting…
Is Voice of America still a public institution respecting free speech?
BBG Watch Commentary In the United States the right to petition is guaranteed by the First Amendment to…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Mistaken Identity
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Mistaken Identity a commentary by The Federalist People concerned about what the Broadcasting…
Radio Free Asia managers and employees, other BBG broadcasters, oppose merger plan
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) plan to merge the grantee-surrogate broadcasters into one large…
The best defense is a good offense at Broadcasting Board of Governors
This comment was sent to BBG Watch by a former Voice of America broadcaster and journalist. Also read:…
Deemphasizing of international experience led to Voice of America ignoring Obama's Polish gaffe
BBG Watch Commentary Layoffs of experienced journalists, closing down of foreign language services, recent hiring of former domestic…
Bipartisan effort by Victor Ashe and North Carolina congressmen to save BBG transmitting station is part of larger fight for public oversight of U.S. international broadcasting
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a federal agency which oversees U.S. government-funded international broadcasting…
Association of Tibetan Journalists appeals to U.S. Congress to save Voice of America radio to Tibet
The Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) decision to end Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcasts to Tibet produced…
Does anyone care about Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty?
This opinion piece was submitted by a journalist who works at the headquarters of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty…
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…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Ides of March in the Voice of America Newsroom
by The Federalist The Voice of America (VOA) Newsroom is not a happy place: It is one of…
Broadcasting Board of Governors exploits Dalai Lama's support for Voice of America while hiding its plan to end VOA radio to Tibet
The Broadcasting Board of Governors public relations officials should be ashamed to promote Dalai Lama’s support for the…
Silencing of Voice of America radio to Tibet to be explained by chief BBG strategist
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Michael Meehan and BBG’s Director of Strategy and…
BBG Super Executives out of touch with reality
This post by Judy was in response to Broadcasting Board of Governors – We Know Who The Enemy…
Reaching hearts and minds used to be VOA's mission
TV is the dinosaur: Back to the future with shortwave and Internet!” by Another Voice I have not…
Why America Has Trouble Reaching Iran: VOA’s Persian News Network in Dire Need of Reform by Helle Dale, Heritage Foundation
Helle C. Dale, a Senior Fellow for Public Diplomacy at The Heritage Foundation has written another in-depth analysis…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – The Eve of Destruction
by The Federalist On March 7, 2012 the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) plans to mark the 70th…
Broadcasting Board of Governors Needs Sensitivity Training on Tibet
This commentary was written by Edite Lynch in response to the news that a Tibetan widow and a…
Fewer journalists but executive offices fully occupied at Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
This commentary was sent to BBG Watch by a Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty journalist who uses Jan…
Demoralized Voice of America — Georgian Service
“The Georgian Service of the Voice of America is demoralized,” a VOA staffer wrote to BBG Watch. It…
BBG Gone Pravda
BBG Watch Commentary An old Soviet-era joke went something like this: “This is Armenian Radio; our listeners asked…
Tibetan monks listen secretly to Voice of America radio soon to be silenced by BBG
“The [Buddhist] monks [in Tibet] listen secretly to Voice of America’s Tibetan service news every night, despite feeling…
Trouble at PNN – Voice of America to Iran – BBG blamed
BBG Watch Commentary Several recent media reports point to serious problems at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG),…
U.S. taxpayers funding pro-Putin VOA programs – Ted Lipien in Washington Examiner
BBG Watch Commentary Ted Lipien, a former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director and co-founder of BBG…
HOWL – VOA journalist's view of management – Part One
Without the grossly exploited POVs, VOA would be little more than Kafkaesque hallways of frustrated bureaucrats with no…
CUSIB Congratulates Michael Lynton on Appointment as Interim Presiding Governor
The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB), an independent nongovernmental organization that urges the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to pay closer attention to human rights reporting, serving oppressed audiences and fair treatment of employees, has released a statement congratulating Michael Lynton on his appointment as Interim Presiding Governor.
Broadcasting Board of Governors: The Good, The Bad, The Nonsensical
by The Federalist Ted Lipien’s recent op-ed piece in The Washington Times, “LIPIEN: VOA harms Putin opposition in Russia Faked interviews, lax Web security are signs a shakeup is needed,” took the Voice of America’s (VOA) Russian Service to the woodshed for its recent fiasco of posting a fake interview with a leading Russian opposition leader and dissident blogger.
New Media Scholar Nikolay Rudenskiy Is Author of ‘Pro-Putin Bias In VOA’ Study
BBG Watch Commentary Sources told BBG Watch that an independent Russian journalist who warned about a “pro-Putin” bias…
Would Navalny visit Voice of America? Follow up to Washington Times op-ed
BBG Watch Commentary Ted Lipien, former VOA acting associate director who now serves on the board of directors…
Washington Times Op-Ed warns about pro-Putin bias in Voice of America Russian programs
BBG Watch Commentary In a Washington Times op-ed, a Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting member Ted Lipien warned about…
Voice of America undermines anti-Putin opposition at US taxpayers' expense
BBG Watch Commentary Early last year, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a federal agency which manages the…
'Fake' interview on Voice of America part of a bigger problem at BBG and VOA Russian Service
BBG Watch Commentary The posting on the Voice of America Russian website of a fake interview with a…
Voice of America English website still ignoring VOA Navalny 'fake interview' controversy
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America English website has not reported yet on the controversy involving the…
Broadcasting Board of Governor's policies blamed for fake Voice of America interview
One can make a very good argument that going all web and eliminating Voice of America (VOA) Russian…
‘Old white guys’ – National Review links to BBG Watch discrimination and mismanagement story
“Old White Guys” – The Open Season is On The “old white guys” comment attributed to a former CNN associate of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Walter Isaacson will just not go away. Nor should it until officials who make such comments are forever banned from U.S. international broadcasting
CUSIB’s Reggie Littlejohn joins Congressman Chris Smith in calling for release of Chen Guangcheng – CUSIB
U.S. Lawmaker Stands Up for Blind Forced Abortion Opponent Chen Guangcheng by Wearing Sunglasses – Congressman Chris Smith with Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers and Advisory Board member of the Committee for U.S.
Chairman of House Committee on Foreign Affairs says Chinese people need Voice of America broadcasts – BBG Watch
In a special video message, the Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, congratulated the Voice of America (VOA) on the 70th anniversary of VOA broadcasting to China. The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a federal agency which manages VOA, tried to end all VOA radio and television broadcasts in Mandarin and Cantonese on Oct.
BBG executives close down Voice of America broadcasting services, pay themselves hefty bonuses
This report was prompted by the news of the Voice of America Croatian Service being forced off the air and the Internet on the orders of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) officials.
US International Broadcasting and the BBG: The Numbers Game
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has announced that its own surveys (These are not completely independent surveys.…
US International Broadcasting and the BBG: The Numbers Game
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has announced that its own surveys (These are not completely independent surveys. They are produced by a contractor, InterMedia, for whom the BBG has been for years the only major client.
Women and Their Families in China Who Are Victims of Human Rights Abuses Need Voice of America Radio
The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) issued a press release on CUSIB Executive Director Ann Noonan’s speech in support of continuing Voice of America (VOA) radio and television broadcasts to China.
The “New” BBG Strategic Plan, Part Three: Thoughts on “Freedom and Democracy”
by The Federalist Let’s take a moment to review the VOA Charter: “The long-range interests of the United…
Officials hail Voice of America TV interview in Persian with Hillary Clinton; then what about TV to China? — BBG Watch
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is right to brag that the Voice of America (VOA) — one of several U.S.
Putin goes after Radio Svoboda on Russian TV — CUSIB and BBG Watch
In a prime-time interview aired on October 17 with the heads of Russia’s three largest television stations, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that during the Cold War, his former employer — the KGB — viewed Radio Svoboda as a branch of the CIA engaged in spying in the former Soviet Union, the Committee for U.S.