No substantive duplication between RFA and VOA: Radio Free Asia Releases English e-Book on North Korea’s Prison Camps
BBG Watch Commentary Illustration from Radio Free Asia North Korean Prison Camps E-Book Voice of America…
Throwing Good Money After Bad: BBG’s Desperate Struggle Against Reform
OPINION Throwing Good Money After Bad: BBG’s Desperate Struggle Against Reform Will Taxpayers Continue to Foot This…
VOA News days behind BBC, RT, DW, NYT on Cologne attacks
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America’s VOA English News (not counting VOA Learning English section which is not…
Voice of America Central News ignores sexual assaults on women in Cologne
BBG Watch Commentary It was not a big surprise to us that as of 1:30 AM EST, Wednesday,…
Voice of America or Voice of Castro?
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America or Voice of Castro? While surfing the web, we recently came across…
BBG employees ‘crippled’ by technical breakdowns ‘lose confidence’ in leaders
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has received an urgent message from a Voice of America (VOA) journalist intended…
Martial law Poland – Kirk Douglas and Voice of America
By Ted Lipien A few Voice of America English newsroom correspondents and some VOA managers who…
How Frank Sinatra and Voice of America countered communist propaganda
By Ted Lipien Today, December 12, 2015, is Frank Sinatra’s birthday. He would have been…
Voice of America misleads world with Donald Trump headline, endangers Americans
BBG Watch Commentary After trying to convince the world last week that Americans were in a “State…
Another yesterday’s news tomorrow weekend at Voice of America – still no Carter story
BBG Watch Assume you are someone in Africa who likes and is interested in former U.S. President Jimmy…
On the day of Obama’s terrorism address, Voice of America shows 21 hour old Tweet
BBG Watch On Saturday, President Obama made a radio address on domestic terrorism. The Voice of America had…
Voice of America news foul-ups — Point/Counterpoint
BBG Watch BBG Watch commentary: “Voice of America homepage link to California shooting did not work as story…
BBG and VOA managers too busy traveling and teaching journalism abroad to manage their own
BBG Watch Commentary Too much foreign travel not related to a core activity can make a government agency…
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…
Voice of America manager argues for keeping ‘hateful’ Facebook comments on U.S., France, and gays
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) Facebook pages get a dismally low number of comments from readers…
OPINION We’ve Lost For The French and Western Civilization
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: We’ve Lost For The French and Western Civilization By The Federalist…
Comment: Ashamed of My Voice of America Job After 15 Years
BBG Watch Commentary This comment by an anonymous writer who self-identifies as a Voice of America journalist was…
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…
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.…
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…
Voice of America French to Africa service removes sex story after BBG Watch post
BBG Watch Commentary New Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO John Lansing must be a reader of BBG…
Florida couple having sex while facing arrest number one U.S. news story on Voice of America French site for five days
BBG Watch Commentary UPDATE: After BBG Watch posts were published and after the sex-before-jail report stayed on the…
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…
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,…
Voice of America should not do away with some types of breaking news coverage, a listener abroad says
BBG Watch A Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) staffer provided this comment to BBG Watch regarding the issue…
Voice of America late and short on Boehner
BBG Watch Analysis By A Former Voice of America Correspondent BBC World beat VOA on the Boehner resignation,…
Ben Carson urges Voice of America to wage information warfare against ISIS
BBG Watch Media Leave it to Ben Carson, once way back in the pack among GOP presidential candidates,…
BBC enters Putin’s media war – POLITICO
BBG Watch Media James Panichi and Alex Spence report in Politico Europe Edition that “To counter Kremlin crackdown,…
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Defeated
Commentary BBG Watch offers a wide range of commentaries on current issues in U.S. international media outreach, public…
Journalist analyzes Matt Armstrong buzzwords
BBG Watch Commentary A former Voice of America senior correspondent has sent us an analysis of a recent…
Misplaced priorities of BBG Governor
BBG Watch Commentary We could not find any online trace of U.S.taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) paying any…
Does the World Service have a future?
BBG Watch Media The editor of BBC World Service News until earlier this year argues that the funding…
Are Voice of America news reports VOA Charter compliant and balanced?
BBG Watch Just Asking After Sohrab Ahmari, an editorial page writer for the Wall Street Journal Europe published a commentary…
Reactions vary to John Lansing as contender to lead U.S. BBG media outreach
BBG Watch Opinions BBG Watch has received a number of reactions to its exclusive report that U.S. cable…
RFE/RL video commentary on death of Robert Conquest, pedestrian VOA Russian coverage
BBG Watch Commentary As Voice of America (VOA) English News website completely ignored the recent death of British-American…
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…
OPINION Voice of America Information War Lost: A Day For Stifling Debate
Commentary BBG Watch offers a wide range of commentaries on current issues in U.S. international media outreach, public…
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)…
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…
News Censorship and Assault on Voice of America Charter
BBG Watch Commentary The American Federation of Government Employees, AFGE Local 1812, has revealed new shocking information about…
‘Crimea overwhelmingly happy to be part of Russia,’ Voice of America reported year ago citing faulty BBG poll
BBG Watch History U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) is now under new interim leadership after the recent…
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…
House Panel Advances Reforms of US International Media – Voice of America News
VOICE OF AMERICA COVERAGE OF HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE VOTE BBG Watch Commentary The VOA News report…
Policy heavyweights support Royce-Engel U.S. media reform bill
BBG Watch Commentary According to a new report released by the Aspen Institute, at the third annual Aspen…
DAVID JACKSON How to Save the Voice of America
BBG Watch Media Former Voice of America (VOA) director David S. Jackson has published an opinion article on…
Death for Tsarnaev – earlier speculative Voice of America headlines undermined credibility
BBG Watch Commentary Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death over the April…