Advertisement Whisper of America? Alan L. Heil Jr., a former deputy director of VOA, author of “Voice of America: A History” and editor of Local Voices/Global Perspectives: Challenges Ahead for U.S. International Media, wrote...
This commentary by an anonymous Broadcasting Board of Governors’ journalist analyzes the BBG’s FY2013 budget proposal which calls for silencing Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcasts to Tibet as part of cutting America’s broadcasts...
In a Washington Times Op-Ed, a Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting member Ted Lipien warned about a pro-Putin bias in the Voice of America Russian programs. Lipien reported that a highly respected independent journalist...
BBG Watch Commentary Early last year, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a federal agency which manages the Voice of America (VOA), paid a highly respected independent journalist in Russia a few hundred dollars...
Republished from the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) website. In a guest post on the MountainRunner.us public diplomacy blog, the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting director Ted Lipien makes an argument in favor...
by The Federalist Voice of America (VOA) journalists are steamed over the circumstances surrounding an attempted interview with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg in the late summer of 2011. The story circulating through...
I disagree with Alex Belida’s suggestions, The Future of U.S. International Broadcasting: A Call for Debate on its Mission and Funding, although each has elements that could be merged into something new, purposeful and...
by The Federalist There seems to be a conflicted message coming out of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). On the one hand, in the January board meeting, it appears that Chairman Walter...
Republished from the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) website: In an article published in American Diplomacy, a quarterly electronic journal of commentary, analysis, and research on American foreign policy and its practice, the...
by The Federalist A considerable amount of howling has been coming from the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and their International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) bonus-mongers. The reason for the howling: reports by BBG Watch...
