BBG Watch Commentary Yet another prestigious journalism award went to former Radio Liberty Russian reporters who either resigned in protest or were fired last September by the American management of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty...
Elena Vlasenko, a young journalist who resigned in protest from the Moscow bureau of Radio Liberty (Radio Svoboda) after dozens of her colleagues were fired by the American management, is one of the finalists...
This article by fired Radio Liberty human rights reporter Kristina Gorelik is reposted with permission from the openDemocracy online journal. Read the original here. Radio Liberty making waves: have no lessons from the past...
BBG Watch Commentary As the Kremlin orders USAID to pull out of Russia, accusing the U.S. government agency of giving support to anti-Putin groups, and the Russian Parliament tentatively approves a new law expanding...
FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog Commentary by Ted Lipien, December 16, 2008, San Francisco – In The Huffington Post article, “Alhurra TV: Uncle Sam’s Boondoggle“ Dr. Nancy Snow has pointed out a number of serious problems with...
FreeMediaOnline.org and Free Media Online Blog October 3, 2008, San Francisco – As journalists, their organisations, and human rights and press freedom groups are preparing to commemorate the second anniversary of the killing of investigative reporter...
FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog September 15, 2006, San Francisco — A top aide to Senator Biden has sent a message to Mr. Putin that politics can be placed ahead of human rights and media freedom if there is...
FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog, September 11, 2006, San Francisco — FreeMediaOnline.org has learned that several members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors refused to take a vote Thursday to restore Voice of America...
FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog, September 11, 2006, San Francisco — Sources at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) have told FreeMediaOnline.org, a media freedom nonprofit, that at least one of the Board members, most likely Blanquita...
FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog, Commentary by Ted Lipien, September 8, 2008, San Francisco — A country like Russia either needs surrogate broadcasting or it doesn’t. Many countries, however, need balanced and objective news...
