Read More 3 minute read Ransom demand for Foley: Voice of America not reporting, hours behind BBC, NYT, other mediaAugust 21, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary As of 1:45 PM EDT, Thursday, August 21, the Voice of America (VOA) English News…
Read More 2 minute read Rep. Ed Royce: The danger to Voice of America is maintaining the status quoJune 11, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has published a Letter…
Read More 7 minute read Taking The Washington Post To TaskJune 9, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Reform of US Government international broadcasting cannot and must not be held hostage by a…
Read More 1 minute read SCHULZ: At VOA, Ken Tomlinson ‘helped bring down the Evil Empire’ – WT – also NYT and WPMay 8, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Washington Times have articles about former…
Read More 5 minute read Between The LinesFebruary 26, 2014 International Broadcasting Bureau – Dysfunctional and Defunct Are Our Best Brands – Information War Lost: Between The Lines By The Federalist…
Read More 4 minute read VOA journalists: ‘Talk to us about failures of Voice of America website’ — RECOMMENDATIONS IIIFebruary 24, 2014 We continue posting morale improving recommendations sent to BBG Watch by a group of Voice of America reporters…
Read More 2 minute read Union says ‘Yadda, Yadda, Yadda…’ to Voice of America official claiming improvement of morale will take 3 to 5 yearsFebruary 23, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary The following editorial was published by American Federation of Government Employees, AFGE Local 1812, which…
Read More 1 minute read Russia should grant a visa to David Satter – Washington Post editorialJanuary 21, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary The Washington Post newspaper published an editorial, “Russia should grant a visa to David Satter,”…
Read More 5 minute read For U.S. reactions to news from Ukraine go to Wash. Post, not Voice of America English websiteJanuary 17, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary A news article in today’s Washington Post by Bill Englund, a Pulitzer Prize winner Washington…
Read More 4 minute read BBG Chairman Jeff Shell: Nurturing Internet freedom in ChinaDecember 14, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary In a well-written Letter to the Editor, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Jeff Shell…
BBG union president says Voice of America and surrogate broadcasters have different missionsMarch 14, 2013 In a letter to The Washington Post, Tim Shamble, president of the AFGE Local 1812 union representing the…
SHINING THE LIGHT ON AN OPAQUE BUREAUCRACYFebruary 8, 2013 The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employee union, American Federation of Government Employees Local 1812, commented in a…
Read More 6 minute read U.S. media on failing revenge of Washington bureaucracy at Broadcasting Board of GovernorsFebruary 6, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary When one hears of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comment that the Broadcasting Board…
Read More 2 minute read Static at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Jackson Diehl writes in The Washington PostFebruary 4, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Jackson Diehl, deputy editorial page editor of The Washington Post, whose extensive experience in reporting…
Former BBG member Wimbush joins attack on Ashe, was rejected for RFE/RL interim president positionJanuary 23, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that a former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Republican member S.…
Read More 4 minute read European public interest journalism expert calls for Ragona and Gessen to leave, return of fired Radio Liberty staffJanuary 5, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary European public interest journalism expert Zygmunt Dzieciolowski has called on the Broadcasting Board of Governors…
Steven Korn continues to defame Radio Liberty journalists in Washington Post interviewJanuary 3, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary In an interview with The Washington Post, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) President and CEO…
Are BBG/IBB officials out of step with Obama on employee privacy?June 22, 2012 The top lawyer for the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) said, wrongly, that reporting wrongdoing to the media…
BBG's shoddy FOIA record in line with its overall management recordMarch 16, 2012 Ed O’Keefe’s Washington Post column, Agencies poorly track FOIA requests, report says, points out that agencies, such as…
Read More 1 minute read Washington Post columnist: BBG consistently rated by OPM at the bottom of the barrel in governmentAugust 17, 2011 BBG stands for the Broadcasting Board of Governors. But it could just as well mean “bottom of the…