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Question for IBB Director Lobo’s “Viewpoint” blog: what will you do about VOA request to deny UN press accreditation to American journalist?

Advertisement BBG Watch Commentary The International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) Director Richard Lobo has launched his own blog: “Viewpoint. Dick Lobo on international media. The funny thing about this blog by the presidentially-appointed administrator of...

Keeping Radio Liberty Russian Service director in Moscow will make the job of Putin’s secret police much easier

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has a new president and new senior managers, none of whom is a Russian scholar or a journalist with significant international reporting experience. Senior managers with this kind of...

Is Voice of America still a public institution respecting free speech?

BBG Watch Commentary In the United States the right to petition is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the federal constitution, which specifically prohibits Congress from abridging “the right of the people…to petition the...

Why independent reporter Matthew Russell Lee annoys Voice of America?

BBG Watch Commentary There is little doubt that United Nations officials find independent reporter Matthew Russell Lee highly annoying. His reports have uncovered fraud, waste, abuse and corruption at the UN. They can be...

Chen Guangcheng – Foreign broadcasters are wrong to stop broadcasting in shortwave to China

In an interview with Ian Johnson for The New York Review of Books, blind Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, who now lives in the United States, said that those who advocate for the...

US and British media report on Voice of America attempt to ban investigative journalist from the U.N.

BBG Watch Commentary “There is a disturbing new wrinkle in the troubling effort to oust Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press from the United Nations Correspondents Association, Brett D. Schaefer reports in National...

Helle Dale – The BBG’s Culture of Secrecy

In a post on the Heritage Foundation blog The Foundry, the foundation’s senior public diplomacy analyst Dr. Helle Dale reported that the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) “has started to exhibit a level of...

Broadcasting Board of Governors threatens employees with punishment for revealing non-public information

In a controversial move for a U.S. government international broadcasting agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) published a resolution threatening its employees with punishment and disciplinary measures for unauthorized disclosure of official non-public...

Secretive BBG staff fails to carry out directives and advise the Board, helps draft gag resolution

BBG Watch Commentary At the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) board meeting, held last week at the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in Prague, Czech Republic, some board members and senior staffers tried to...

CUSIB Congratulates Two Board Members Who Have Been Honored with the Visual Artists Guild Spirit of Tiananmen Awards

CUSIB Board Members, Jing Zhang and Jianglin Li at the Visual Artists Guild New York Chapter Tiananmen Square Commemoration Event Saturday, June 9, 2012. Jing Zhang was honored at this event for her work....

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