The Hill Op-ed Against Anti-Semitism in Media and Walter Durnaty-Style Journalism at USAGM’s Voice of America (VOA)
USAGM Watch Commentary In his latest op-ed in The Hill, former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director…
Why are US-funded USAGM journalists defending Russia, Iran over the Hamas massacre? – Ted Lipien Op-Ed in The Hill
USAGM Watch Commentary by Ted Lipien My new op-ed in The Hill includes comments on the latest barbaric attacks by Hamas terrorists…
HISTORY Flora Wovschin — Codename ZORA — Was The Most Active Soviet Spy But Not The Most Valuable Agent of Influence at WWII Voice of America
USAGM Watch Commentary By Ted Lipien Following reports that due to multiple security violations the Office of Personnel…
Mark Pomar Sees Opportunity for Radio Liberty to Stand Up to Putin After Being Kicked Out from Russia, Peter Gross Noted
USAGM Watch Commentary Peter Gross, Ph.D., professor emeritus and former Director of the University of Tennessee’s School of…
Boris Nemtsov Defended Radio Liberty Journalists
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary We can report with some satisfaction that Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty…
USAGM Holdover CEO Was Warned in 2017 About Anti-Semitism in His Agency’s Programs
BBG Watch Commentary United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Obama Administration holdover CEO John F. Lansing took…
Total Meltdown 5.0 for BBG in Russia with RFE/RL and VOA Current Time
OPINION RFE/RL, VOA – Total Meltdown 5.0 for BBG in Russia US Government International Media In Need…
Washingtonian: No worries for Putin from BBG’s “Current Time” RFE/RL and VOA TV channel
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is seen by Russia experts as a failure in…
The Obama ‘Reset’ with Russia
OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn The Obama “Reset” with Russia By…
Radio Liberty Fails on Russian Interference
OPINION Cold War Radio Museum October 31, 2017 How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn Radio Liberty Fails…
How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn
OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn Russian Propaganda and U.S. Politics Today By…
The BBG Saga: Leaving On A Jet Plane
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost The BBG Saga: Leaving On A Jet Plane …
Clueless U.S. agency invites Putin’s officials to RFE/RL party, they boot their chairman out of Russia instead
BBG Watch Commentary How clueless and mismanaged can the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) be? According to an…
BBG Chair Jeff Shell’s expulsion from Russia points to US bureaucratic failure
BBG Watch Commentary While all the facts are not yet in, one thing is certain: bureaucrats of the…
EXCLUSIVE Congressional sources call for abolishing the BBG after its bureaucracy bungled BBG Chair’s trip to Moscow
BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE Senior congressional staffers told BBG Watch that the expulsion of Broadcasting Board of Governors…
BBG in Moscow: Russia needs a new and reformed Radio Liberty, a journalist says
OPINION Introduction by BBG Watch According to unconfirmed reports, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) chairman Jeff Shell, BBG…
RFE/RL moves from goats playing ball to serious journalism under new president
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) employees are telling BBG Watch of improvements in…
Masters of bad timing: BBG to eliminate Radio Liberty’s shortwave broadcasts in Russian
OPINION Masters of bad timing By Ted Lipien The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG),…
Discarding imperial hubris could help some VOA and RFE/RL journalists
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has noticed tendency among some Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe…
Puzzling press release from RFE/RL about its Moscow bureau
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), a U.S. taxpayer-funded international media outlet based in…
BBC investigates corruption by Putin, where were Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America?
BBG Watch Commentary Rather than interviewing U.S. officials about corruption charges leveled against Vladimir Putin, Voice of America…
Official RFE/RL announcement of Russian Service leadership change
BBG Watch Commentary As BBG Watch reported in “Change in Radio Liberty Russian Service director post EXCLUSIVE,” Radio…
Radio Liberty Gave No Support To Investigative Reporters
BBG Watch Commentary INTRODUCTION: In Russia, journalists who run afoul of the Kremlin or the business mafia, end…
Life in Post-Soviet Russia of Former Radio Liberty Reporter
BBG Watch Commentary INTRODUCTION: A young and successful Russian investigative reporter Anastasia Kirilenko is one of many who…
No Particular Radio Liberty Support For Interview With Putin’s Accuser
BBG Watch Commentary INTRODUCTION: A young and successful Russian investigative reporter Anastasia Kirilenko is one of many who…
A Putin Corruption Reporter Too Radical For Radio Liberty
BBG Watch Commentary INTRODUCTION: In Russia, journalists and opposition leaders who run afoul of the Kremlin or the…
Russian investigative reporter mocks RFE/RL’s Radio Liberty management for censoring out her name
BBG Watch Commentary Anastasia Kirilenko, one of the most enterprising and fearless young Russian investigative reporters, has mocked…
Former RFE/RL President Kevin Klose Testimony on Options for Reforming U.S. Overseas Broadcasting
BBG Watch The following text is the written testimony of Kevin Klose, former Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty President,…
Radio Liberty broadcaster describes his firing by Russian Service management
BBG Watch Commentary A Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) broadcaster in Russia, Vladimir Abarbanel, described in…
Snubbed by Radio Liberty management, Paris-based journalist interviewed by Russian independent Rain TV (Dozhd)
BBG Watch Commentary After the terror attacks in Paris, a Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Russian…
Radio Liberty bans Paris terror report from its former Russian correspondent
BBG Watch Commentary A former Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) staffer and investigative reporter Anastasia Kirilenko…
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.…
Called ‘traitors’ and ‘Jews’ by Putin supporters, Radio Liberty journalists complain of mistreatment by U.S.-hired management
BBG Watch Commentary WARNING: This post contains a letter by an anonymous Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty…
Russian court rules against award-winning human rights reporter in employment dispute with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
BBG Watch Commentary Sources in Moscow told BBG Watch that a Russian judge took only about five minutes…
Russian human rights leader defends dismissed Radio Liberty human rights reporter
BBG Watch BBG Watch has learned that longtime Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Russian Service human…
Kudos to RFE/RL
BBG Watch Media A Digital Journal op-ed notes that Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is showing courage and practices…
Briefing Memo 3 for New BBG CEO – What Do IBB Executives Do? They Travel
BBG WATCH EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch has received from a source within the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) a…
Op-Ed: Disappearance of Putin is most likely a propaganda ploy
BBG Media Russian President Vladimir Putin may have staged his own disappearance to score propaganda points against gullible…
BBG FY 2013 – FY 2015 Budgets and Positions
BBG Watch NOTE: The International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) budget was split between IBB and the Office of Technology,…
VOA expecting riots in Russia? Or maybe Novorossiya? Taxpayers pay for anti-riot car and much more
BBG Watch Commentary The Washington Post “In the Loop” columnist Al Kamen is perhaps making fun of the…
BBG hears from the White House, CUSIB
BBG Watch Commentary In remarks to the Board of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Assistant to the…
Government Executive publishes new details about 2012 firing of Radio Liberty journalists in Russia
BBG Watch Commentary Government Executive reporter Charles S. Clark, who often writes about the Broadcasting Board of Governors…
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…
BBG Chairman Jeff Shell on threats to journalists
BBG Watch Commentary At the April 11 meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors in Washington, DC, BBG…
Ukraine bill calls for increased RFE/RL and VOA broadcasts
BBG Watch Commentary According to Washington Examiner and The Hill articles, bipartisan legislation to aid Ukraine and levy…
Biden threatened Yanukovych with sanctions in a call on Thursday, BBC, DW, RFE/RL reported – no report or updating of Ukraine news by Voice of America Thursday evening and Friday morning
BBG Watch Commentary 4:00 AM EST UPDATE: VOA English audio newscast accessed online at 4:00 AM EST Friday…
A Living Memorial In Honor of Former BBG Governor, Victor Ashe
BBG Watch Commentary “The American Linden tree planted through the efforts of AFGE Local 1812 will be a…
Return To The Russian Front
International Broadcasting Bureau – Dysfunctional and Defunct (The Agency’s Branding Label): Return To The Russian Front by The Federalist “I…
U.S. Media Condemn Attacks On Euromaidan Journalists – BBG Press Release
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch is re-posting a BBG press release, U.S. Media Condemn Attacks On Euromaidan Journalists.…
VOA Russian Service reports on White House – NSC statement on terror attacks in Russia – VOA English does not
BBG Watch Commentary UPDATE 3:00PM ET, Dec. 30: A brief reference to the NSC – White House statement…