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Ransom demand for Foley: Voice of America not reporting, hours behind BBC, NYT, other media
BBG Watch Commentary As of 1:45 PM EDT, Thursday, August 21, the Voice of America (VOA) English News website still has no report that Jihadists who were holding U.S. journalist James Foley and murdered him wanted a $132m ransom for…
Rep. Ed Royce: The danger to Voice of America is maintaining the status quo
BBG Watch Commentary Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has published a Letter to the Editor in response to a recent Washington Post editorial about the bipartisan Royce – Engel U.S. International Broadcasting Reform Legislation….
Taking The Washington Post To Task
BBG Watch Commentary Reform of US Government international broadcasting cannot and must not be held hostage by a group of individuals motivated by self-interest intent upon preserving a dysfunctional and defunct Federal agency. The latest incident at the Voice of…
SCHULZ: At VOA, Ken Tomlinson 'helped bring down the Evil Empire' – WT – also NYT and WP
BBG Watch Commentary The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Washington Times have articles about former Voice of America (VOA) Director and former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Ken Tomlinson who died last week in Virginia. He…
International Broadcasting Bureau – Dysfunctional and Defunct Are Our Best Brands – Information War Lost: Between The Lines By The Federalist We are taking another look at the article by Joe Davidson in the Washington Post ("Agency tries to improve its low…
VOA journalists: 'Talk to us about failures of Voice of America website' — RECOMMENDATIONS III
We continue posting morale improving recommendations sent to BBG Watch by a group of Voice of America reporters and other employees. VOA Website Performance Immediately begin discussions with correspondents (DC bureaus, domestic and foreign bureaus) and the English web operation…
Union says 'Yadda, Yadda, Yadda…' to Voice of America official claiming improvement of morale will take 3 to 5 years
BBG Watch Commentary The following editorial was published by American Federation of Government Employees, AFGE Local 1812, which represents the workforce of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), including Voice of America (VOA) employees. Yadda, Yadda, Yadda… By American Federation…
Russia should grant a visa to David Satter – Washington Post editorial
BBG Watch Commentary The Washington Post newspaper published an editorial, "Russia should grant a visa to David Satter," in which the Editorial Board wrote: "In today's world, in the digital age, Russia has no borders when it comes to ideas…
For U.S. reactions to news from Ukraine go to Wash. Post, not Voice of America English website
BBG Watch Commentary A news article in today's Washington Post by Bill Englund, a Pulitzer Prize winner Washington Post correspondent in Moscow: "Harsh anti-protest laws in Ukraine spur anger," includes reporting on various U.S. reactions to recent events in Ukraine…
BBG Chairman Jeff Shell: Nurturing Internet freedom in China
BBG Watch Commentary In a well-written Letter to the Editor, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Jeff Shell responded to a Washington Post editorial which urged the BBG to do more to counter Internet censorship by China. Mr. Shell pointed…
BBG union president says Voice of America and surrogate broadcasters have different missions
In a letter to The Washington Post, Tim Shamble, president of the AFGE Local 1812 union representing the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees, argued that the Voice of America (VOA) and BBG-funded surrogate broadcasters have different missions and questioned…
SHINING THE LIGHT ON AN OPAQUE BUREAUCRACY
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employee union, American Federation of Government Employees Local 1812, commented in a recent article posted on its website on the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) bureaucracy's attempts to take over the control of the agency…
U.S. media on failing revenge of Washington bureaucracy at Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary When one hears of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's comment that the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is "defunct" or the State Department's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report that the BBG is "dysfunctional," it…
Static at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Jackson Diehl writes in The Washington Post
BBG Watch Commentary Jackson Diehl, deputy editorial page editor of The Washington Post, whose extensive experience in reporting on foreign affairs includes work as the paper's correspondent in Poland during Solidarity's struggle for democracy, concluded in today's op-ed article that…
Former BBG member Wimbush joins attack on Ashe, was rejected for RFE/RL interim president position
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that a former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Republican member S. Enders Wimbush, who criticized a current BBG Republican member, Ambassador Victor Ashe, was recently rejected by the BBG as one of the…
European public interest journalism expert calls for Ragona and Gessen to leave, return of fired Radio Liberty staff
BBG Watch Commentary European public interest journalism expert Zygmunt Dzieciolowski has called on the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the federal agency in charge of U.S. international broadcasting, to apologize to the fired Radio Liberty Russian journalists and to offer…
Royce Report – USAGM Illegally Targeting Americans with Facebook Ads
December 2018 Oversight Investigation: Report by Chairman Edward R. Royce U.S. International Broadcasting in the Digital Age Getting Advertising Right
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