USAGM & Transition Team Work Plan and Requests EXCLUSIVE
USAGM Watch Commentary USAGM Watch has received a copy of “USAGM & Transition Work Plans and Request,” which…
USAGM – US Agency for Global Mayhem – Don’t Get Fooled – Again
OPINION – GUEST COMMENTARY US Agency for Global Mayhem Don’t Get Fooled – Again By The Federalist To…
ROBINSON and ELLIOTT on Reforming USAGM in Charge of Voice of America, Other USG Media
USAGM Watch Media Commentary The Biden Choice on USAGM: Business as Usual, or Major Change. By Dan Robinson,…
Lauded Adviser of Biden’s USAGM Transition Leader Richard Stengel Was Also Chief Aide of Ex BBG CEO Before Conviction for Theft
USAGM Watch Commentary President Obama’s Under a Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel…
Biden’s USAGM Transition Leader Richard Stengel Pushed Normalization with Castro’s Cuba for OCB and VOA EXCLUSIVE
USAGM Watch Commentary According to two individuals who attended closed meetings of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
Biden’s USAGM Transition Leader Richard Stengel Criticized for Advocating Restrictions on Free Speech
Richard Stengel’s October 29, 2019 op-ed in The Washington Post, “Why America needs a hate speech law,” has been…
Biden Named Richard Stengel Team Lead Transition Volunteer for US Agency for Global Media – USAGM
Former Time magazine editor Richard Stengel who as former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs represented…
Voice of America, RFE/RL ignore White House statement on genocide in Ukraine
BBG Watch Commentary Hillary Clinton when she was U.S. Secretary of State called the Broadcasting Board of Governors…
Not by accident, Richard Stengel had a better trip to Russia than BBG Chair Jeff Shell
BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Jeff Shell’s trip to Russia turned out to be…
BBG Channelling from Bad to Worse
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) newsroom is now slightly faster, if not vastly better, in…
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…
Panic News from Voice of America – Late – Not Quite Right
BBG Watch Commentary Everybody who checks and compares international news online knows by now that U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice…
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 opponents of ‘countering violent extremism’ not likely to be asked to do it
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) English newsroom reporters, some of whom make more than $150,000 per…
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.…
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,…
Senator Ted Cruz wants BBG to counteract ISIS propaganda, some Voice of America English news staffers don’t
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
75th Anniversary of Sumner Welles Declaration – U.S. Public Diplomacy from Success to Failure at BBG
BBG Watch Commentary This week marked the 75th anniversary of the Welles Declaration, one of the most powerful…
Broadcasting Board of Governors reform bill reintroduced
BBG Watch Broadcasting Board of Governors reform bill reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives with greater protection…
Ed Royce in WSJ on countering Putin’s information weapons of war
BBG Watch Commentary Wednesday, April 15, 2015, at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the…
‘Weaponization’ of Information House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing April 15
BBG Watch House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing April 15 “The agency charged with leading the effort – the…
Kerry tells Royce he’s 100 percent with him on BBG reform, asks for more money
BBG Watch Secretary of State John Kerry testifed before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the fiscal year…
CUSIB supports BBG’s Andy Lack in a row with Russia’s RT
BBG Watch The independent NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) issued a strong statement of…
Stengel on RT Disinformation Campaign
BBG Watch Media With RT and SPUTNIK falling all over themselves to claim an undeserved news organization status…
Voice of America Information War Lost – Words And Their Meanings
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America Information War Lost – Words And Their Meanings By The Federalist …
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…
Cuba and Paris – Radio and TV Marti, VOA, U.S. public diplomacy doing great or limping?
BBG Watch Commentary No well-meaning journalist who cares about bringing news to people living under government censorship and…
Sputnik, Putnik, Another RT
BBG Watch Commentary The name — SPUTNIK — for a news agency and international radio may sound silly…
BBG Names Andy Lack CEO – BBG Watch had it first
BBG Watch Commentary As predicted first and reported exclusively by BBG Watch last week, Andrew R. Lack, age…
Voice of America: social media or ‘old state broadcaster model’?
BBG Watch Commentary Will VOA embrace change with social media or ‘old state broadcaster model’ of censored program…
Under Secretary Stengel: U.S. needs to harden its ‘soft power’
BBG Watch Commentary How does the U.S. harden its “soft power”? According to a Voice of America (VOA)…
Russian TV with Voice of America: Obama – stupid, McCain – warmonger, journalists – fakes
BBG Watch Commentary If unable to see Part I of RBK-TV-VOA, Sept. 11, 2014 video, check: RBK-TV…
Russian RT paid more attention to American Jim Foley than Voice of America, obliterated VOA in social media
BBG Watch Commentary The Kremlin’s external media outlet RT (formerly Russia Today) once again beat U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice…
Voice of America obliterated by Russia’s RT on Ferguson coverage, social media outreach
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) was not only late in reporting online on the killing of…
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…
World holding its breath for VOA story on digital drive-in movies, Ferguson can wait
BBG Watch Commentary Sources told BBG Watch that while Voice of America (VOA) executives still haven’t managed to…
On Ferguson, Voice of America top brass shows Rick Stengel why Russia’s RT is better
BBG Watch Commentary At the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) open board meeting on August 13 in Washington,…
Were we channelling à la the Twilight Zone? – JANE DOE Op-Ed
Guest Commentary One of BBG Watch contributors, Jane Doe, who because of her sensitive position within the International…
Voice of America snubs White House aide Ben Rhodes speaking on VOA’s future, Russia’s RT had a report
BBG Commentary Whether it was a deliberate snub or yet another example of management and news reporting meltdown…
Human rights organizations write to BBG urging end to discrimination of RFE/RL foreign journalists
BBG Watch Commentary The latest human rights organization to send a letter to the Broadcasting Board of Governors…
OUR DYSFUNCTIONAL INTERNATIONAL RADIO/TV STATIONS – Guy W. Farmer Op-Ed
A Guest Commentary BBG Watch occasionally publishes guest commentaries. This one is from Guy W. Farmer who supervised…
Kerry’s representative to BBG writes about Egypt and media freedom, ignored by VOA
BBG Watch Commentary Richard Stengel, who serves as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs…
U.S. BBG pays for faulty, favoring Kremlin propaganda poll in Russia-annexed Crimea
BBG Watch Commentary Two top independent sociologists in Ukraine and Russia, as well as some American experts who…
Undersecretary Stengel Visits RFE/RL Kyiv Bureau — Importance of U.S.-funded Surrogate Media Acknowledged
BBG Watch Commentary It is good to see a high level U.S. State Department official, Under Secretary for…
U.S. Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy condemns Kremlin propaganda and ban on Voice of America in Russia, but VOA English News fails to report his comments
BBG Watch Commentary When propaganda poses as news, it creates real dangers. Setting the record straight about @RT_com…
Voice of America English news site ignores Kerry and Stengel, equates Obama with Putin
BBG Watch Commentary We found it interesting that Voice of America (VOA) English news website ignored the swearing-in…
Blame the IBB, not the BBG Board, for making U.S. media outreach dysfunctional, says former VOA and IBB executive
BBG Watch Commentary Journalist, writer and former Voice of America (VOA) and International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) executive, Ted…
Crimea no longer part of Ukraine on Voice of America map
BBG Watch Commentary A map posted on U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) news website no longer shows…
Russian Foreign Ministry retweets RT regularly, U.S. State Department almost never retweets Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ active and frequently updated Twitter account MFA-Russia has numerous retweets…
Susan Rice and Richard Stengel promote State Department’s response to Putin’s propaganda machine, offer little help so far to BBG
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. National Security Advisor to President Obama Susan Rice and U.S. Under Secretary of State…