Information war – Russia 2 : Voice of America 0, experts agree
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Rick Stengel observed recently…
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…
Obama Baltics speech report quickly buried by Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) has removed from the VOA English News homepage and…
Voice of America fails to update news and headlines on important news day
BBG Watch Commentary While President Obama was visiting Estonia and declared that “borders cannot be…
Voice of America helped Russia score propaganda points with poor VOA performance in a TV project
BBG Watch Commentary All American and European media and information strategy experts consulted by BBG Watch agreed that…
Voice of America TOP STORY Headline: PUTIN ASKS RUSSIA TO STOP MILITARY OPERATIONS IN UKRAINE
BBG Watch Commentary PUTIN ASKS RUSSIA TO STOP MILITARY OPERATIONS IN UKRAINE TOP STORIES…
Russia’s RT has more on Obama statement on Ukraine than Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) devoted only 138 words on its English news website…
No update of VOA homepage, no separate report on Obama Ukraine statement
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America has not updated its main English news…
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…
Voice of America does not post a profile of slain U.S. journalist Jim Foley, RT of Russia does
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) did not post a profile of slain U.S. journalist Jim Foley;…
Voice of America ignores U.S. observances of Hitler – Stalin Pact anniversary
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America management ignores U.S. statements on Hitler – Stalin Pact 75th anniversary and…
Voice of America finally on the scene in Ferguson – No Comment
BBG Watch Commentary After more than ten days of reporting on the Ferguson protests from Washington, without any…
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,…
Russia’s RT reports: Obama to send Holder to Ferguson, Voice of America was late
BBG Watch Commentary As of 5:00 PM EDT, August 18, 2014 – UPDATE: At about 5:45PM…
Voice of America bosses and staff on vacation, no VOA reporter in Ferguson, Missouri
BBG Watch Commentary The same management of U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), which provided on-the-scene coverage of…
NBC interviews Voice of America journalist and Yazidi activist – BBG Media Highlights – August 18, 2014
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Media Highlights are compiled, posted and sent out to subscribers by the staff of…
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…
House Passes U.S. International Broadcasting Reform Bill
BBG Report and Commentary Saying the United States is “losing the information battle” with Russian President Vladimir Putin,…
Why the Broadcasting Board of Governors Is Nothing Like RT — BBG Chair Jeff Shell
BBG Watch Commentary In theory, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Jeff Shell is right in his Time…
Voice of America often fails to counter Russian propaganda and sometimes promotes it
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) often fails to counter Russian propaganda and sometimes even…
Voice of America ignored State Department comment on U.S.-Polish controversy
BBG Watch Commentary Badly managed, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) often misses U.S. news stories of importance…
Voice of America leaves it to Russian RT to report on US-Poland scandal
BBG Watch Commentary While international media has been full of reports for many days on leaked tapes of…
Voice of America did not send staff reporter from Washington with Biden to Ukraine, paid for Europe trip for VOA Director instead
BBG Watch Commentary UPDATE: Later in the day, VOA added the name of Gabe Joselow as a byline…
VOA shows thousands of pro-Kremlin troll comments and some RT retweets
BBG Watch Commentary With the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) management allowing posting on the VOA English…
RT hammers VOA in social media
RT report from earlier today, June 2, 2014, dealing with U.S. news, “Republicans criticize US swap with Taliban,…
Other than misspelled name of Poland’s President, finally a decent VOA report on Obama heading to Europe
BBG Watch Commentary While many U.S. and international media outlets were posting full length reports and news analyses…
How to spot a Russian Twitter troll, Ukraine@war
BBG Watch Commentary “In the style of war that Putin fights, influencing the public opinion plays a very…
The Opinion-Makers: How Russia Is Winning the Propaganda War, DER SPIEGEL
BBG Watch Commentary “With the help of news services like RT and Ruptly, the Kremlin is seeking to…
A Former VOA Correspondent on the Debate Over U.S. International Broadcasting
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch is providing a forum for discussion on the United States International Communications Reform Act of…
Deutsche Welle does Voice of America’s reporting job on Hunter Biden and Ukraine
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) English website did not have a news report on Hunter…
NYT with 11.8M Twitter followers worries, VOA News with 103K behind UN Peacekeeping with 119K
BBG Watch Commentary According to BuzzFeed article, “Exclusive: New York Times Internal Report Painted Dire…
Are comments on Voice of America websites subject to pro-Kremlin trolling? — They are.
BBG Watch Commentary Are comments on Voice of America (VOA) websites subject to pro-Kremlin trolling? There is absolutely…
Russia’s RT retweets on Voice of America website draw criticism from former BBG members
BBG Watch Commentary Two former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) members have criticized Voice of America (VOA) practice…
Voice of America posts tweets from Russia’s RT photographer who mocked Michelle Obama
BBG Watch Commentary In a clear violation of its congressionally-approved Charter, the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America reposts…
BBG can be proud of its journalists working under defunct bureaucracy
BBG Watch Commentary Not all is defunct at the Voice of America (VOA) and the Broadcasting Board of…
National Geographic article warning about RT tweets, sometimes used by Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary WARNING – The article quotes an obscenity. In an National Geographic article “The Twitter War: Social Media’s…
Voice of America posts tweets from Russia’s RT and ‘pro-Russia, Fuck the #US, German socialist ‘
BBG Watch Commentary WARNING: This commentary quotes an obscenity. Using U.S. taxpayers’ money, the Voice of America (VOA),…
A New Voice of America, Wall Street Journal Editorial
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch reported today that “in contrast to other Western broadcasters, such as BBC and…
Voice of America English headlines paint an image of unpopular and collapsing Ukraine government
BBG Watch Commentary In contrast to other Western broadcasters and its own Ukrainian and Russian services, Voice of…
Auschwitz, Obama, and Voice of America Charter — New Bill in Congress May Correct VOA’s News Failures
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) failed to report on President Obama’s statement on the…
Voice of America failed to report on Obama’s statement on canonization of John XXIII and John Paul II
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America failed to report Monday on President Obama’s statement on the Canonization…
Voice of America offered disappointing coverage of John XXIII and John Paul II canonization
BBG Watch Commentary The Catholic Church sainthood for Popes John XXIII and John Paul II…
RT and Voice of Russia have much more on U.S. troops going to Poland, Baltics, and Black Sea than Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary Russia’s Kremlin-run media outlets, RT and Voice of Russia, have done considerably more reporting on…
Propaganda, Disinformation, and Dirty Tricks: The Resurgence of Russian Political Warfare – Partial C-SPAN VIDEO
BBG Watch Commentary UPDATE: For full Heritage Foundation video and partial audio and transcripts, see: Is Voice of…
BBC World News has ten times more Facebook Fans than Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary VOA Facebook Page – 561k Likes BBC World News Facebook Page – 5.5m…
A Map, Malice and Mission Impossible
International Broadcasting Bureau – We Define Success By Being Dysfunctional and Defunct – Information War Lost: A Map, Malice and…
The War on Information, a view from union of journalists and other BBG employees
BBG Watch Commentary The American Federation of Government Employees, Local 1812, a union representing federal employees of the…