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[caption id="attachment_14832" align="alignleft" width="456" caption="Sign the Petition to Save Voice of America Spanish Broadcasts to Latin America - Click on the Image"][/caption] The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting

BBG Watch Commentary Ordered by the nine-member Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) executive staff reluctantly published a

The Broadcasting Board of Governors' (BBG) decision to end Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcasts to Tibet produced worldwide protests from independent journalists and human rights groups. In

As Gabriel Garcia Marquez once said:

La sabiduría nos llega cuando ya no nos sirve de nada. Wisdom comes to us when it’s already too late.

A Guest Commentary by Edite Lynch The role of the U.S. Congress must take precedence over any self-serving machinations by the executives of the BBG Quo Vadis couldn’t have

Annette Lantos, the wife of the late Congressman Tom Lantos, has joined efforts to oppose the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) proposals to cut Voice of America

THAT PESKY CONGRESS: THWARTING ATTEMPTS BY THE BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS AND ITS EXECUTIVE STAFF TO SHUT DOWN VOA by Quo Vadis   Year after fiscal year, members of Congress

RIF REDUX:  PURGING OF THE VOICE OF AMERICA BY THE BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS AND ITS EXECUTIVE STAFF  by Quo Vadis   The recent and most devastating Reduction-in-Force proposed by Broadcasting Board of

BBG Watch has learned that Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) executives were on Capitol Hill last week trying to convince Congressional staffers that Voice of America shortwave

[caption id="attachment_13929" align="alignleft" width="100" caption="CLICK on this image to send a letter to Congress to save VOA"][/caption] The International Campaign for Tibet NGO

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) has offered an amendment to "H.R. 1410: Vietnam Human Rights Act of 2011" designed to prevent the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) from

The independent, nongovernmental Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) has released an Open Letter to Members of House Appropriations Committee on silencing of America's broadcasts to Tibet,

BBG Watch News Commentary [caption id="attachment_13536" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Rep. Walter B. Jones"][/caption] Rep. Walter B. Jones (R-NC) is asking the Broadcasting

[caption id="attachment_13452" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Link to Washington Examiner op-ed by Ted Lipien."][/caption] Ted Lipien, a former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director, has been warning for some