Part ONE: Voice of America Struggles to Detect Violations of Journalistic Standards, Enforce Guidelines
Voice of America Deletes Tweets By A Key Correspondent USAGM Watch Commentary We’re going to bury the lead…
A “Martyr” for Free Press Who Blocked Journalists Exposing His Mistakes
OPINION By The Federalist In the latest U.S Agency for Global Media (USAGM) dust up, the VOA White…
Voice of America Reporter in NPR Story Blocked Watchdog Website Journalists in 2017
USAGM Watch Commentary National Public Radio (NPR) reported on October 4, 2020 that two political appointees at the…
Voice of America tweeted false accusations against Covington students but failed to report on CNN settlement
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded and U.S. government-managed Voice of America (VOA) English-language news website…
1 to 7 Likes on Facebook Posts from 912K VOA Extremism Followers — Only at USG Tax-Funded Voice of America
BBG – USAGM – Watch Commentary In January 2018 former U.S. Agency for Global Media…
False claim in Voice of America reporter’s tweet about a dead Kurdish girl
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Experts critical of Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyib Erdoğan have raised…
Secret Facebook Pages and Twitter Blockers at USAGM – Part I
BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Commentary Secret Facebook Pages and Twitter Blockers at USAGM By BBG –…
USAGM CEO Lansing still a Twitter follower of admitted felon, his ex-right hand man
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary In an affront to taxpayers and his U.S. government agency employees, John F.…
Voice of America ignores ‘The Donald’ pro-Trump art exhibition in Albania
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has ignored “The Donald” pro-President…
Did Voice of America federal reporter threaten Americans to silence pro-Trump free speech?
USAGM Watch Commentary On a Twitter account showing news from the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), a…
Voice of America US gov’t employee-reporter called for Covington students to be outed
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded (Annual budget: $234.7 million; Employees: 1,078) Voice of America (VOA), managed by the…
RFE/RL claims Iran clergy “remains firmly in place” as criticism of Radio Farda, VOA and USAGM goes viral
BBG Watch Commentary In a new video from U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which is managed…
Iranians curse USAGM’s RFE/RL Radio Farda for repeating regime propaganda
BBG Watch Commentary Iranians are enraged by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Radio Farda, as well as in…
Thanksgiving: Time to Be Grateful For “Cushy” Six-figure Jobs at USAGM
BBG Watch Guest Commentary As Americans observed Thanksgiving, employees of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) no…
TV Rain puts BBG media to shame in corrective Babchenko coverage
BBG Watch Commentary Coming back from the dead does not happen often. When Russian opposition journalist Arkady Babchenko…
Erotica Twitter Feed Had VOA Director, Her Deputy As Followers
BBG Watch Commentary An erotica Twitter feed linked to a Voice of America (VOA) broadcaster had VOA director…
White House denies McMaster firing rumor spread among others by Voice of America senior reporter’s tweets
BBG Watch Commentary In a tweet with 9:11 PM – 15 Mar 2018 time stamp, Steve Herman, White…
‘Deplorable’ VOA to Iran -The Hill op-ed
BBG Watch Commentary Two Iranian human rights activists, Mariam Memarsadeghi and Akbar Atri, say in an op-ed in…
U.S. Trump critics love porn star tabloid tweet from Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary Critics of President Trump in the United States seem delighted with a tweet by the…
Latest Omarosa gossip from Voice of America White House Bureau Chief
BBG Watch Commentary Stop the presses! We interrupt our regular BBG Watch holiday content preparation to bring you…
RFE/RL promotes nostalgia for communism with U.S. tax dollars
BBG Watch Commentary In the last few days U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) was…
RT reposts VOA White House correspondent’s tweet
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) White House bureau chief, Steve Herman, @W7VOA, had posted a…
Chinese whistleblower takes on Voice of America with a meme
BBG Watch Commentary Chinese maverick billionaire whistleblower Guo Wengui has taken on the Voice of America (VOA), still…
Senior VOA reporter quit updating Twitter since Trump’s victory
BBG Watch Commentary A source told us that a senior reporter working in the newsroom of the U.S.…
BBG management followed, legitimized fake VOA Iran Twitter feed for years
BBG Watch Commentary In a stunning display of chaos, mismanagement and lack of oversight, key management units within…
BBG admitted VOA buys Facebook ‘Likes’ with ads EXCLUSIVE
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE A Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Office of Public Affairs staffer admitted in emails dated…
Voice of America leagues behind BBC, RT on Twitter during Clinton-Trump debate
BBG Watch Commentary Our analysis of Voice of America retweets and tweet likes during the Clinton-Trump debate shows…
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…
Voice of America News asleep on Munich story for over 3 hours, 4 hours on Facebook and Twitter
BBG Watch Commentary As of early Saturday, July 23, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has not been…
When Exclusive is not Exclusive at Voice of America
BBG Watch OPINION When Exclusive is not Exclusive By Dan Robinson A headline on a…
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE: VOA Swears in Pulitzer Winner as New Director After Yearlong Vacancy
BBG Watch Media Government Executive reporter Charles Clark noted in a recent report the appointment of Amanda Bennett…
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…
Matt Armstrong calls Voice of America a ‘fundamental counter to propaganda’, exaggerates successes, ignores failures
BBG Watch Commentary A Republican member of the bipartisan Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the federal agency in…
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 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 VOA English news has 4 times fewer Twitter followers than Edward Snowden
BBG Watch Voice of America’s main VOA English News Twitter account with less than 300,000 followers is four…
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…
Voice of America has news and web issues
BBG Watch Early Wednesday afternoon, new Russsian military offensive in Ukraine was number two news story on BBC…
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…
Wilson Center Panel on Reform of BBG
BBG Watch The Woodrow Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy program sponsored a panel discussion on reforming U.S.…
Washington Post quote: ‘Ensor accomplished more…’
BBG Watch Media The Washington Post “In the Loop” column by Colby Itkowitz reports on the resignation of…
SPUTNIK, BBC leave Voice of America behind on S. Carolina shooting death charge
BBG Watch Media BBC, Russia’s international news agency SPUTNIK and multiple other foreign and U.S. media have been…
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…
Voice of America seeks help with finding positive news
BBG Watch Commentary Link to VOA Talk to America Video on YouTube U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice…
Voice of America Facebook still shows President Obama with a turkey 12 days after Thanksgiving
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America news, Facebook posts and Tweets are not the only ones…
Voice of America needed leaders and an editor for Obama immigration story
BBG Watch Commentary On such an important news story as President Obama’s speech Thursday evening on immigration…
Voice of America Information War Lost: Pants On Fire
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America Information War Lost: Pants On Fire By The Federalist We…
Voice of America report on Putin at G20 shows only pro-Putin readers’ comments
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) is either completely ineffective in audience engagement…