HISTORY Stalin Prize-Winning Chief Writer of Voice of America News
BBG – USAGM Watch History March 12 is the anniversary of the death in 2003 of Howard Fast,…
Unknown history of Russia’s propaganda efforts targeting Americans
BBG Watch Commentary Recent media reports about Russian propaganda efforts to target African Americans expose a practice of…
USAGM outlets VOA and RFE/RL Radio Farda absent at Pompeo news conference on Iran sanctions
BBG Watch Commentary According to Iranian-American Mahtab Farid, neither the U.S. tax-funded and Federally-managed Voice of America (VOA)…
Anti-U.S. and Anti-Israel Images from Most Popular Voice of America News Videos
BBG Watch Commentary For a background on these images from videos posted online by U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of…
Voice of America shows torching of U.S. and Israeli flags in videos with no balance or American views
BBG Watch Commentary Russia’s propaganda media outlet RT was not the only one to fan flames of anti-Americanism…
A Fantasy of Success at Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary “‘It’s a whirlwind of positive change.’ Summing up the recent (February 26 [2016]) bimonthly public…
RFE/RL’s Brian Whitmore counters Kremlin propaganda, management plays it safe
BBG Watch Commentary Judging by often poor quality re-writes of wire service Russia news on Radio Free Europe…
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…
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…
Polemical Remarks About Radio Liberty Russian Service
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch Introduction to “Polemical Remarks About Radio Liberty Russian Service: A View From Russia”…
Misclassified: BBG faces $400mn lawsuit over contracting practices, report claims — RT USA reports
BBG Watch Commentary RT USA, the English language website of Russia’s overseas propaganda media outlet RT, is reporting…
Is this Russian RT, SPUTNIK or something else?
BBG Watch Commentary Was this Facebook item posted by Russian propaganda channel RT, Russian disinformation news agency SPUTNIK…
Voice of America homepage link to California shooting did not work as story developed
BBG Watch Commentary In yet another journalistic, digital and managerial embarrassment for U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA)…
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…
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War: Lost and Staying Lost
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War: Lost and Staying Lost By The Federalist …
Broadcasting Board of Governors claims a record audience despite dismal VOA social media stats
BBG Watch Commentary There is no shortage of good news from the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) despite…
Voice of America with minimal Paris terror coverage had dismal social media engagement compared to BBC, DW, and RT
BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) offered this weekend its international audiences minimal coverage…
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.…
Faire l’amour is top U.S. news today on Voice of America French
BBG Watch Commentary UPDATE: After BBG Watch posts were published and after the sex-before-jail report stayed on the…
Voice of America and the Russian Bear
BBG Watch Satire A bear broke into a shopping mall in Russia this week, apparently looking for food.…
Voice of America irrelevant on social media during Democratic presidential debate
BBG Watch Commentary America is calling, but is anyone looking at Voice of America news content on social…
Voice of America does better on Malala story compared to 2013, gets exclusive interview with Ukraine’s president
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice America did a much better job covering Malala Yousafzai’s visit to Washington…
U.S. Media Outreach to Russia Between Optimism and Despair
BBG Watch Commentary Two recent articles touched upon a little noticed debate over U.S. response to Vladimir Putin’s…
John Kerry Voice of America interview proved VOA’s irrelevance on social media
BBG Watch Commentary Seven and a half hours after a Voice of America (VOA) interview with U.S. Secretary…
U.S. taxpayers can’t afford Voice of America correspondent’s proposal
PHOTO: The power of Russia’s information machine is shown in a Voice of America map in which Crimea…
Voice of America late on Russia veto of UN Srebrenica resolution, appears to misinterpret US Ambassador’s comments
BBG Watch Commentary More than two hours after BBC, RT, RFE/RL and other international news organizations reported on…
OPINION Conundrums of Self-Promotion
Commentary BBG Watch offers a wide range of commentaries on current issues in U.S. international media outreach, public…
The Katyn Massacre Lie and U.S. International Broadcasting
BBG Watch Guest Commentary The Katyń Lie and U.S. International Broadcasting Why did the Voice of…
Voice of America asleep on Ukrainian fighting, gives more play to Peskov and Lavrov than Harf
BBG Watch In a show of incredible slowness, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) failed to make the…
OPINION The Departure of Voice of America Director David Ensor
Commentary BBG Watch offers a wide range of commentaries on current issues in U.S. international media outreach, public…
No rebuttal on Voice of America to ex-CIA official calling Seymour Hersh’s Osama bin Laden report ‘rubbish’
BBG Watch Commentary In an apparent violation of the VOA Charter and Journalistic Code, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of…
‘Coolest’ videos from Voice of America and RT – MUST SEE
BBG Watch Some say that the United States is losing the information war to Russia. What would be…
VOA and RFE/RL fail to report online in English on Putin’s defense of Nazi-Soviet Pact
BBG Watch Media During the Cold War, both Voice of America (VOA) and particularly Radio Free Europe /…
Op-Ed: Voice of America disappoints
BBG Watch Media “U.S. taxpayer funded Voice of America (VOA) has problems offering timely analysis of Kremlin propaganda,…
WATCH: Veteran VOA correspondents Jim Malone, Andre de Nesnera react to flyover
BBG Watch At the end of its today’s report, “US, Europe Mark 70th Anniversary of VE Day,” Voice…
Oops, Cameron not ousted as Voice of America speculated
BBG Watch Commentary British Prime Minister David Cameron was not ousted as Voice of America (VOA) speculated he…
Voice of America speculates Cameron could be ousted in UK vote, BBC and RT coverage more cautious
BBG Watch Media A Voice of America (VOA) news report speculates that British voters “could make a Scottish…
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…
Voice of America can’t get news of its own reform right
BBG Watch Media It is unlikely in the extreme that Voice of America (VOA) director David Ensor (who…
WAHL – POMERATSEV – DALE on Kremlin conspiracy theories propaganda
BBG Watch Media A congressional hearing, entitled “Confronting Russia’s Weaponization of Information,” was convened Wednesday in Washington by…
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…
Russian RT beats Voice of America 1,500 to 1 in Facebook ‘Likes’ on S. Carolina murder
BBG Watch Media Russia’s state media outlet RT beat U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), which departing VOA…
Times on resignation of Voice of America director David Ensor
BBG Watch Media The New York Times reported in an article by Ron Nixon that “David Ensor, who…
Dismal Voice of America social media stats on big Iran – U.S. news day
BBG Watch Commentary Members of the bipartisan Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) should hold top Voice of America…
BBC, RT, others report on NSA shooting, still nothing on Voice of America
BBG Watch Media As of 10:56 AM ET, Monday, March 30, 2015, U.S. taxpayer-funded international news media outlet…
Former BBG governor, former U.S. ambassador to Russia agree: U.S. losing information war
BBG Watch Commentary Reuters news agency and the Kremlin’s media outlet RT reported on a new study which…
Voice of America and RT – Will VOA Newsroom reform work?
BBG Watch Media RT, which used to be called Russia Today, is “Putin’s weapon of choice in the…
TIME v RT, plus Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Media TIME magazine has an article on Russia’s external media outlet RT, which was quickly countered with…
U.S. media agency BBG leagues behind BBC and RT in web traffic
BBG Watch Commentary The troubled U.S. media agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), released Tuesday its detailed…