All posts tagged Internet

CPJ Blog: Chinese microblog regulates, suspends users–again

Pity those of us who monitor the ups and downs of China’s popular microblog platform, Sina Weibo. For every story its users spread in defiance of local censorship, there follows a clampdown .

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Who really speaks for China? Wei Jingsheng, Yu Jie, Fang Lizhi, Chen Guangcheng…

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): When dissident lawyer Chen Guang­cheng escaped ­extra-legal house arrest to make his way to the U.S. Embassy,

Empowering independent media: U.S. efforts to foster a free press and an open Internet

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Efforts to bolster independent media and an open Internet overseas are having significant impact, but face a

Broadcasting Board of Governors – BBG Strategy: We’re Abandoning Our Mission and We Don’t Care!

Broadcasting Board of Governors - BBG Strategy: We’re Abandoning Our Mission and We Don’t Care! by The Federalist Let’s get right down to the nitty-gritty: Against every major American rival

The role of the U.S. Congress must take precedence over any self-serving machinations by the executives of the BBG

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

Broadcasting Board of Governors misleads Congress on shortwave radio reception in China

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

Broadcasting Board of Governors – Forget Voice of America radio WHAM ( Winning Hearts and Minds )

CACOPHONY AT COHEN CONTINUUM: Dance of the Comedians by Quo Vadis  In November 2011, at a forum sponsored by the Public Diplomacy Council and reported on by Adam Clayton

Reaching hearts and minds used to be VOA’s mission

TV is the dinosaur: Back to the future with shortwave and Internet!" by Another Voice I have not seen the case for keeping shortwave alive made so succinctly and powerfully

Broadcasting Board of Governors – We Know Who The Enemy Is – Part I

by The Federalist It certainly isn’t BBG Watch. And it isn’t the Committee on US International Broadcasting (CUSIB). One would

Kazakhstan – Kazkhstan

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Read in Russian / читать по-русски Казахстан 2012 Kazakhstan, which considers itself a regional model after holding the rotating presidency of

Why America Has Trouble Reaching Iran: VOA’s Persian News Network in Dire Need of Reform by Helle Dale, Heritage Foundation

Helle C. Dale, a Senior Fellow for Public Diplomacy at The Heritage Foundation has written another in-depth analysis of management problems at the Broadcasting Board of Governors.

Broadcasting Board of Governors – The Eve of Destruction

by The Federalist On March 7, 2012 the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) plans to mark the 70th anniversary of the Voice of America (VOA) and its 70

Broadcasting Board of Governors – Behold! The Master Plan

[caption id="attachment_13247" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="BBG members with IBB Director Richard Lobo and Deputy Director Jeff Trimble"][/caption] by The Federalist   As we already know, as part of the administration’s FY2013

Broadcasting Board of Governors – Iran and the Art of the Deal

[caption id="attachment_10365" align="aligncenter" width="437" caption="Snapshot of Voice of America website under cyber attack by Iranian hackers."][/caption]by The Federalist Voice of America (VOA) Director David Ensor is taking on

Reporters Without Borders writes to Google about new Blogger terms of service

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders wrote to Eric Schmidt, Executive chairman of Google, on 8 February to express its concern about recent changes

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