BBG Governors McCue and Meehan urge RFE/RL to work on returning fired journalists to Radio Liberty
BBG Watch Commentary “In particular, we have asked Acting RFE/RL President Kevin Klose and his team to continue…
Human rights activists call for reform of Radio Liberty programs to Kazakhstan
BBG Watch Commentary While the attention of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and Radio Free Europe /…
BBG Governors McCue and Meehan met in Moscow with Alexeeva and with fired Radio Liberty staffers
BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) members Susan McCue and Michael Meehan were in Moscow from…
Winds of change at Radio Liberty Moscow
BBG Watch Commentary Visiting Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) acting president and CEO Kevin Klose met…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Boston, Chechnya, Kazakhstan
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable – Boston, Chechnya, Kazakhstan by The Federalist …
Three BBG members to receive Champion of Free Speech Award
BBG Watch Commentary Three members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the federal agency in charge of…
Masha Gessen resigns from Radio Liberty in Russia
BBG Watch Commentary Controversial director of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Russian Service Masha Gessen has…
Polish TV to air film about Radio Free Europe and its contribution to freedom
Commentary by Ted Lipien Polish Television will air next weekend a five-part documentary film about the Polish Service…
Hushing America’s message in terrorism’s redoubt, Washington Times op-ed
In an op-ed in The Washington Times, former Voice of America manager Ted Lipien warns that bureaucratic infighting…
Radio Liberty in Exile fills gap in human rights coverage in Russia
BBG Watch Commentary Fired Radio Liberty journalists are providing multimedia human rights news coverage in Russia that the…
U.S. officials promoting media freedom abroad censor information for American public
BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. government’s International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB)–the administrative arm of the Broadcasting Board of Governors…
Michael Lynton misses another Broadcasting Board of Governors meeting, makes agency ungovernable
BBG Watch Commentary Sources at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) report that BBG’s Interim Presiding Governor Michael…
Waiting for Godot – BBG members hope AWOL Michael Lynton will participate in board meeting
BBG Watch Commentary The mystery continues whether the U.S. international broadcasting agency’s Interim Presiding Governor Michael Lynton will…
Russia Talking to Itself – journalists discuss media landscape and Radio Liberty
Kremlin control of the Russian media may not be absolute, though it comes pretty close, and the few…
Sonenshine to leave public diplomacy post at State, sources told BBG Watch
BBG Watch Exclusive News Report and Commentary BBG Watch has learned that the Under Secretary of State for…
Best expert analysis of Chechnya, Boston, jihadism connection comes from Radio Liberty in Exile
BBG Watch Commentary Fired Radio Liberty Russian journalists delivered some of the best in depth analysis of the…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional and Defunct – The FY2014 Budget
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional and Defunct – The FY2014 Budget by The Federalist On…
U.S. – Russia panel on Magnitsky may cover Chechnya, includes critics of Radio Liberty firings
BBG Watch Commentary Monday’s, April 22, the Hundson Institue panel in Washington, DC on U.S. – Russia relations,…
Top IBB officials are preventing hiring of an interim executive officer for BBG, undermine national security
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned from several reliable sources that top officials of the International Broadcasting…
Expert analysis from RFE/RL on Boston bombings and Chechnya enhanced by Radio Liberty in Exile
BBG Watch Commentary Last year, U.S. government bureaucrats in Washington wanted to eliminate Radio Free Europe / Radio…
Bureaucrats proposed cutting US broadcasts to North Caucasus, home of Boston bombing suspects
BBG Watch Commentary. U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) still broadcasts uncensored radio programs in…
Radio Liberty in Exile covers Navalny trial with videos, photos, interviews and news reports
In February 2012, the U.S. taxpayer funded Voice of America (VOA) Russian Service broadcast what turned out to…
Resignation of Dennis Mulhaupt from BBG was sudden, strange, unexplained
BBG Watch Commentary Sources tell BBG Watch that the resignation on Tuesday of Dennis Mulhaupt from the Broadcasting…
Dennis Mulhaupt leaves BBG, no quorum if Michael Lynton continues to be a no show at meetings
BBG Watch Commentary A Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Dennis Mulhaupt has informed the White House that…
Liberty Media Corporation should also honor fired Radio Liberty Russian journalists
BBG Watch Commentary Liberty Media Corporation, a for-profit group of American media industry investors, is giving its $50,000…
Digital Journal Op-Ed: America could learn from rappers' tribute to Radio Free Europe
Digital Journal Op-Ed: America could learn from rappers’ tribute to Radio Free Europe by Ted Lipien Truckee – Led…
Russian media report on departures of RFE/RL managers
BBG Watch Commentary The Russian investigative journalism magazine Sovershenno Sekretno is reporting on the departure of two Radio…
Two vice presidents departed Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
BBG Watch Commentary Dale Cohen, Vice President of Administration at Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) since…
Radio Liberty in Exile offers online election coverage in Russia
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Liberty in Exile journalists — those who were fired last September by Radio Free…
Kazakh political prisoner is unhappy with Radio Liberty programs
BBG Watch Commentary “By the way, it turns out that Azattyq (RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service) programs have drastically declined.…
Unilateral Disarmament: How the West Has Destroyed its Broadcasting to Russia
A significant and well-researched analysis of Western broadcasting in Russia, written by British-Russian journalist, translator, writer and former…
Under Gessen, Radio Liberty ceased to be frequently cited news source in Russia
BBG Watch Commentary Warning from fired Radio Liberty journalists, media experts, sociologists opposition politicians and human rights activists…
BBG executives and lawyers refuse to settle discrimination cases they know they will lose
BBG Watch Commentary The union representing the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees, AFGE Local 1812, has been…
Former president's top deputies leaving Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
BBG Watch Commentary In the last six months, dozens of Radio Liberty journalists in Russia were fired without…
As Russian authorities raid human rights NGOs, RFE/RL websites were out of commission, offered minimal coverage
BBG Watch Commentary Big changes may soon be announced at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), but for now…
CUSIB Marks 6-Month Anniversary of the Unjust Firing of Radio Liberty Journalists
Lyudmila Alexeeva, Photo for Radio Liberty in Exile by Yuri Timofeev. March 21, 2013 For…
Lyudmila Alexeeva: Saving Radio Liberty in Russia Should Have Been Done The Day Before Yesterday
BBG Watch Commentary Supporters of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), including a preeminent Russian human rights leader Lyudmila…
Masha Gessen gets award for journalism while dozens of fired Radio Liberty journalists are still unable to work at the station
BBG Watch Commentary Masha Gessen, the controversial director of the Russian Service at the U.S. taxpayer-funded media freedom…
Growing consensus that failed Broadcasting Board of Governors executives should leave
BBG Watch Commentary “That is why we call yet again on Congress to exercise its overview functions to…
OCB and IBB executives show contempt for employees and law, face criticism from Victor Ashe
BBG Watch Commentary Cheered on by the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) executive staff, the current administration of the…
When asked what Radio Liberty means to them, most fired journalists said it is their life
BBG Watch Commentary When asked what Radio Liberty means to them, most fired journalists said it is their…
Radio Liberty faces Die Hard moment, Russia's government website reports
BBG Watch Commentary Russia Beyond the Headlines English-language news website run by a leading Russian daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta,…
Fired Radio Liberty journalist writes about his Holocaust video project
BBG Watch Commentary In September 2012, the former Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) management team fired some of…
Is unexplained absence of Broadcasting Board of Governors interim chair due to alleged conflict of interest?
BBG Watch Commentary While the remaining members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) have been working hard…
RFE/RL's interim president expected to address Czech Helsinki Committee concerns with new personnel and policy decisions
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that newly-appointed Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) acting president Kevin Klose…
Vitaly Portnikov at Radio Liberty 60th anniversary event in Moscow voices support for fired journalists
The 60th anniversary event was organized in Moscow on March 1 by Radio Liberty in Exile, a group…
Sergei Kovalyov at Radio Liberty 60th anniversary event in Moscow
The gathering in Moscow on March 1 was organized by Radio Liberty in Exile, a group of fired…
60 Years of Radio Liberty (Svoboda): Coverage as Exercise in Propaganda
Commentary by Leon 60 Years of Radio Liberty (Svoboda): Coverage as Exercise in Propaganda By Leon…
What would George Orwell say about journalism at Radio Liberty?
BBG Watch Commentary “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.”…
Radio Liberty is joined by Lyudmila Alexeeva to celebrate 60 years of defending free speech
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has posted videos of the Radio Liberty 60th anniversary event…