80 Years of VOA: Different Names of the Voice of America
USAGM Watch Commentary 80 years ago today, on February 1, 1942, the first Voice of America (VOA) radio…
How Zofia Korbońska, Voice of America refugee journalist, campaigned against communism, resisted German-Nazi fascism
Zofia Korbońska, a Voice of America refugee journalist, was a remarkable Polish-American woman who fought against two of…
HISTORY First Voice of America Director of Halloween Fake Radio News Fame
USAGM Watch Halloween Commentary By Ted Lipien Happy Halloween! But don’t be fooled by fake radio news. Orson…
HISTORY Warsaw Uprising Betrayed by Pro-Stalin WWII Voice of America
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary August 1, 2020 marks the 76th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw…
Voice of America Ignored Katyń Anniversary and the Menendez Resolution
OPINION By Ted Lipien The Voice of America (VOA) had a particularly bad but still hidden history of…
Voice of America Doctor Who Brought AIDS Information to USSR and Saved Lives
By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum At one time during the Cold War, the taxpayer-funded, U.S.…
Kirk Douglas on Radio Free Europe and Voice of America
By Ted Lipien As Putin’s propagandists are again spreading lies around the world and trying to undermine American…
HISTORY Russian propaganda at WWII Voice of America
BBG – USAGM Watch History Russian propaganda influence in the United States is not new. “I established contact…
An ahistorical Voice of America is dangerous for the nation
BBG – USAGM Watch Media Commentary The Voice of America should be completely nonpartisan and objective as a…
HISTORY Voice of America? – Why The Question Mark from Congress in 1948?
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary In 1948, Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate charged that Voice of…
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,…
HISTORY | President Eisenhower condemned biased Voice of America officials and reporters
BBG Watch Commentary Cold War Radio Museum Voice of America Then and Now Historically, partisanship at the…
History for Voice of America: General Eisenhower accused WWII VOA of ‘insubordination’
OPINION By Ted Lipien Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett left out some critical information when she…
HISTORY: First VOA director was a communist sympathizer, State Dept. warned FDR White House, denied him U.S. passport
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) journalists who have learned about the history of their organization from…
HISTORY How a refugee journalist exposed Voice of America censorship of the Katyn Massacre
BBG Watch History Commentary This Cold War History Museum presentation shows how officials in charge of the Voice…
HISTORY Senator Taft’s early warning of Soviet propaganda in WWII Voice of America
HISTORY Cold War Radio Museum Could a foreign power such as Russia try to infiltrate the Voice of…
SOLZHENITSYN Target of KGB Propaganda and Censorship by Voice of America
OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn SOLZHENITSYN, Target of KGB Propaganda and Censorship…
China, Iran, Cuba, North Korea
OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn China, Iran, Cuba, North Korea…
Brief History of VOA’s Domestic Propaganda
OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn Brief History of VOA’s Domestic Propaganda…
Tax-funded Voice of America gives a plug for U.S. communist Angela Davis
BBG Watch Commentary In a Labor Day report about the iconic American labor and civil rights activist Dolores…
Voice of America and Warsaw Uprising: Collusion with Stalin
Commentary By Ted Lipien “With genuine horror we listened to what the Polish language programs of the Voice…
VOA had a brief AP report after Zbigniew Brzezinski’s death; RT posted a full obituary
BBG Watch Commentary One of the major American planners of the Cold War victory over the Soviet Union,…
Why WWII Voice of America ignored the Holocaust
“The Voice of America—the United States Government overseas radio broadcasting station founded in 1942—ignored the subject of the…
A Fearless Woman Journalist Should Replace First Director As VOA’s Key Historic Figure
Commentary A Fearless Woman Journalist Should Replace First Director As VOA’s Key Historic Figure By Ted Lipien…
Voice of America and Internment of Japanese Americans
Introduction With today’s 75th anniversary of the signing of the presidential executive order to imprison Japanese Americans during…
75th Anniversary of Voice of America – Propaganda Coordination with USSR
The World War II propaganda arm of the United States government, the Office of War Information (OWI), was…
1956 Hungarian Freedom Fighters – Scant VOA, RFE/RL 60th Anniversary Coverage
BBG Watch History Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and the Voice of America…
Are Voice of America and Radio Liberty obeying Russian court ruling on Nazi-Soviet anniversaries?
Guest Commentary Putin’s Judicial Intimidation Against Voice of America and Radio Liberty Seems To Be Working By Ted…
David Satter on reforming U.S. media outreach to Russia
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE In an exclusive interview with BBG Watch, U.S. journalist, author and Russia expert David Satter…
David Satter on U.S. international media reform
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE In an exclusive interview with BBG Watch, U.S. journalist, author and Russia expert David Satter…
Natan Sharansky mentions Voice of America in a 4th of July Story
BBG Watch History A Fourth of July Story Independence Day is doubly special for the legendary refusenik…
LIPIEN OP-ED: Robert E. Sherwood on avoiding election coverage bias at Voice of America
OPINION Robert E. Sherwood on avoiding election coverage bias at Voice of America By Ted Lipien I disagree…
Even when ‘Federal websites can spill over into propaganda’ – BBG is ignored
BBG Watch Media “Websites operate in broadcast fashion: We publish, you read. We’ll allow feedback at our discretion.…
Hidden history: U.S. Congress exposes Soviet propaganda at Voice of America
BBG Watch Historical Documents & Quotes Series BBG Watch begins today publishing historical documents, some of…
The Triumph of Propaganda – Voice of America and Katyn
BBG Watch History April 13 is observed in Poland as Katyn Memorial Day. It commemorates over 22,000 Poles…
How Kirk Douglas and Radio Free Europe countered Soviet propaganda
By Ted Lipien Despite gasps of indignation from the Kremlin and quite a few Western fellow travelers who…
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…
Robert Conquest, WSJ, VOA Russian, RFE/RL, Cat Fashion Show
BBG Watch Commentary The decline of the Voice of America (VOA) as a serious news organization could be…
Robert Conquest and Voice of America’s intellectual decline
BBG Watch Commentary Robert Conquest (left), who died on August 3, 2015, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom…
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,…
Beware of Central Bureaucracy for USIB
BBG Watch Commentary This BBG Watch commentary on the “21st Century Vision for U.S. Global Media” paper by…
Moral principles need to guide U.S. international broadcasting
by Ted Lipien I strongly urge the Broadcasting Board of Governors to reverse cuts to Voice of America…