BBG Chair Ken Weinstein retweets on VOA personality flipping off anti-Iran regime demonstrators
BBG Watch Commentary In one of the most bizarre incidents at the already dysfunctional and “practically defunct” (Secretary…
Stunning BBG CEO John Lansing SPUTNIK interview: ‘US, Russia Not in State of Information War’
BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO John F. Lansing apparently gave an interview to Russia’s…
US Media Agency Accelerating Toward Oblivion
OPINION US Media Agency Accelerating Toward Oblivion US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist…
Voice of America removes Trump Bingo Game after BBG Watch report
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) has removed from the web its special project “Trump Inauguration Bingo”…
ROBINSON: Not Unfair…Or Outsized…Or Erroneous
OPINION Former senior White House correspondent for the Voice of America Dan Robinson has responded to the BBG…
Broadcasting Board of Governors has no peer in diminished performance
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Lost The Never-Ending Downward Spiral Part Three By The Federalist …
Downward Spiral At Broadcasting Board of Governors
Opinion Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Lost The Never-Ending Downward Spiral Part Two By The Federalist …
Poor quality BBG video, risky ads on BBG YouTube, VOA Director Amanda Bennett
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has posted on its official website and uploaded to…
Closed meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has posted a closed meeting notice to meet the…
‘Wholesale racism’ in Israel: RFE/RL Facebook message paid by U.S. taxes
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has included a message in the…
Marginally better Voice of America still beaten on Nancy Reagan by BBC, DW, RFI, RT
BBG Watch Commentary Image: BBC Breaking News Headline on Nancy Reagan U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) is…
BBG hit with $400M employee contractors suit
BBG Watch Commentary A $400 million class action lawsuit was filed Monday in the U.S. Court of Federal…
BBG CEO gives two longtime SES executives new duties
BBG Watch Commentary Some Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees are scratching their heads to explain a recent…
Will Broadcasting Board of Governors Reform Itself?
EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch Report With A Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the federal agency in charge…
Voice of America misleads world with Donald Trump headline, endangers Americans
BBG Watch Commentary After trying to convince the world last week that Americans were in a “State…
BBG and VOA managers too busy traveling and teaching journalism abroad to manage their own
BBG Watch Commentary Too much foreign travel not related to a core activity can make a government agency…
Carter Administration opposed consolidation of U.S. government broadcasting and Voice of America privatization
Commentary By Ted Lipien Recently released U.S. government documents show that President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor (1977–1981)…
JANE DOE: BBG executives to Congress – to fix a bloated bureaucracy you must give it more power
From Joan and Jane Doe BBG executives to Congress – to fix a bloated bureaucracy you must…
OPINION: Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War?
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War? What Information War? The Agency Is Dead – Unprecedented Irrelevance…
Voice of America ignores White House statement on Holodomor genocide in 1930s Ukraine, as does RFE/RL
BBG Watch Commentary Someone worked at the White House this Saturday, November 7, but not at the U.S.…
Matt Armstrong calls Voice of America a ‘fundamental counter to propaganda’, exaggerates successes, ignores failures
BBG Watch Commentary A Republican member of the bipartisan Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the federal agency in…
CUTTING THROUGH THE FOG: AN AUTUMN UPDATE
BBG Watch BBG Watch offers a wide range of commentaries on current issues in U.S. international media outreach,…
BBG and VOA can’t do the same thing and hope for a different outcome
BBG Watch Media Following reports in the Washington Post and the Washington Times, FierceGovernment site noted that in…
Employee morale at Broadcasting Board of Governors declined under new leadership
BBG Watch According to the Partnership for Public Service, which uses data from the Office of Personnel Management’s…
Domestic news distribution was bad news for VOA
BBG Watch Commentary Not Knowing Its Own History The federal agency in charge of U.S. international media outreach…
Journalist analyzes Matt Armstrong buzzwords
BBG Watch Commentary A former Voice of America senior correspondent has sent us an analysis of a recent…
Misplaced priorities of BBG Governor
BBG Watch Commentary We could not find any online trace of U.S.taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) paying any…
John Lansing will encounter entrenched pro-status quo BBG bureaucracy, Congressional sources warn
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE “Tackling these problems and ‘righting the ship’ will be a truly herculean effort, perhaps only…
BBG Governor Weinstein: RFE/RL level of energy-no comparison to five years ago
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) “multimedia expansion and rapid growth” was the focus of Broadcasting…
SPUTNIK goes after Russian opposition politician and BBG Governor Armstrong
BBG Watch Media Russian news agency SPUTNIK published an attack on Russian opposition politician Ilya Ponomaryov who is…
BBG Governor: Kremlin propaganda aims to create chaos and confusion, undermine the media
BBG Watch Media The goal of Kremlin propaganda “is to create chaos and confusion, undermine the media, and…
OPINION – DAN ROBINSON – Out of the Breaking News Business? And…some questions
Commentary All views expressed are those of the author. One Year Later — Dysfunction, News Failures, Self-Promotion and…
Matt Armstrong’s MountainRunner Reboots
BBG Watch News “Matt Armstrong’s blog on public diplomacy, international journalism, and the struggle against propaganda” will resume…
Some senior Voice of America correspondents have less than 100 Twitter Followers, one VOA reporter has 10
BBG Watch Commentary Most reporters who regularly tweet news on the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) main…
Change – Andy Lack to be sworn in as Broadcasting Board of Governors CEO – EXCLUSIVE
BBG Watch Exclusive News and Commentary BBG Watch has learned that the appointment of Andy Lack as Broadcasting…
Voice of America shows its dysfunctional side on U.S. election night 2014
BBG Watch Guest Commentary BBG Watch occasionally publishes guest commentaries. This one is from former VOA Chief White…
Special Committee on VOA in the 21st Century – VIDEO
BBG Watch Commentary At the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) open meeting last Thursday, the board voted the…
October 30, 2014 BBG Board Meeting VIDEO
BBG Watch Commentary The video of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) open board meeting on October 30,…
Different perspectives on U.S. help for Yazidi refugees in Iraq, Voice of America role
BBG Watch Commentary NBC News and Fox News provided remarkably different perspectives of the American Yazidi community views…
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…
Hillary Clinton bemoans decline of U.S. outreach abroad through Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary In a recent interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and in her latest book, Hard…
‘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…
CUSIB Calls for Matt Armstrong to Step Aside as Shortwave Chair
BBG Watch Commentary The independent NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) has called for the…
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…
Fixing U.S. International Broadcasting – At Last! – MULHAUPT and WIMBUSH
BBG Watch Commentary In one of the best reasoned and most coherent articles in favor of reforming the…
Radio listeners, Vietnamese shortwave jammers surprised and confused by U.S. agency cuts
BBG Watch Commentary Vietnamese radio jamming stations continued to jam Radio Free Asia (RFA) shortwave frequencies that had…
More evidence of delaying notice to Voice of America listeners about shortwave cuts
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has obtained further evidence from multiple sources that a top International Broadcasting Bureau…
‘Scrap this broken agency’: Audit finds Broadcasting Board of Governors wasted $5M
BBG Watch Commentary The Washington Times reports on Saturday, June 21, 2014: A new State Department Office of…
IBB – BBG Debacles – Anti-Reform Act folks by Jane Doe
BBG Watch Commentary One of BBG Watch contributors, Jane Doe, who because of her sensitive position within the…