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April 29, 2013 · No comments

Hushing America’s message in terrorism’s redoubt, Washington Times op-ed

In an op-ed in The Washington Times, former Voice of America manager Ted Lipien warns that bureaucratic infighting mustn’t curtail U.S. news and information outreach to Chechnya and other nations where anti-Americanism and jihadist ideology threaten America’s safety. Lipien, who …

U.S. officials promoting media freedom abroad censor information for American public

April 29, 2013 · No comments

BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. government's International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB)--the administrative arm of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) media agency for informing and influencing foreign audiences--censors selection

Russia Talking to Itself – journalists discuss media landscape and Radio Liberty

April 23, 2013 · No comments

[caption id="attachment_16699" align="alignleft" width="100" caption="Z. Dzieciolowski"][/caption] Kremlin control of the Russian media may not be absolute, though it comes pretty close, and the few independent media have to

Sequestration Prompts Attempt to Silence U.S. Radio Broadcasting

April 8, 2013 · No comments

[caption id="attachment_11460" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Helle Dale"][/caption] "Again, the BBG has demonstrated why it is a broken institution, unfit to handle the U.S. government’s most important public diplomacy tool:

Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost: Dysfunctional and Defunct, Same As It Ever Was

April 4, 2013 · No comments

Broadcasting Board of Governors - Information War Lost: Dysfunctional and Defunct, Same As It Ever Was By The Federalist We have borrowed a refrain from a Talking Heads song,

BBG Interim Presiding Governor Michael Lynton is not confirming participation in April board meeting

April 1, 2013 · No comments

BBG Watch Commentary [caption id="attachment_13087" align="alignleft" width="140" caption="BBG Interim Presiding Governor Michael Lynton has been absent from BBG meetings in recent months."][/caption] Sources told BBG Watch that the Broadcasting

Unilateral Disarmament: How the West Has Destroyed its Broadcasting to Russia

March 27, 2013 · No comments

A significant and well-researched analysis of Western broadcasting in

US stands to lose ability to connect with citizens in closed societies if bureaucrats have their way

February 25, 2013 · No comments

BBG Watch Commentary [caption id="attachment_20188" align="alignnone" width="642" caption="Broadcasting Board of Governors FY 2013 Budget Request"][/caption] The Washington bureaucrats in charge of U.S. international broadcasting (USIB) have not increased their

Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Tuning Out and Gone

February 22, 2013 · No comments

[caption id="attachment_20184" align="alignnone" width="591" caption="Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2012."][/caption]

Broadcasting Board of Governors - Information War Lost - Tuning Out

Unique Role of U.S.-Funded Surrogate Broadcasters

February 13, 2013 · 1 Comment

BBG Watch Commentary

Unique Role of U.S.-Funded Surrogate Broadcasters

by Ted Lipien U.S. Government-funded surrogate broadcasting, which started with the formation of Radio Free Europe in the early 1950s, was

Public Diplomacy and Online Platforms: Radio Liberty’s Case, analysis by American Security Project blogger

February 10, 2013 · Comments Off

BBG Watch Commentary Lívia Pontes Fialho, a policy researcher intern at the American Security Project, analyzes in the ASP FLASHPOINT BLOG recent changes in distribution and content of

Union accuses IBB bureaucracy of 'a great pretend game'

February 8, 2013 · Comments Off

The employee union at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1812, has published another commentary on the International Broadcasting Bureau

In defense of Broadcasting Board of Governors

February 6, 2013 · Comments Off

BBG Watch Commentary The Bureaucracy at the Broadcasting Board of Governors, centered largely within the BBG's International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), but also within the higher echelons of the

Kevin Klose offers vision of journalism that empowers, remains silent on plans to reform RFE/RL

February 5, 2013 · Comments Off

BBG Watch Commentary [caption id="attachment_19379" align="alignleft" width="122" caption="Kevin Klose"][/caption] "Fact-based, quality, reliable, independent, verifiable journalism -- that's what we're about," recently appointed Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) acting president