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Voice of America English website still ignoring VOA Navalny 'alleged interview' controversy

The Voice of America English website has not reported yet on the controversy involving the posting of an interview with a Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, which he called “100% fake.” The alleged interview was posted on the VOA Russian …

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Broadcasting Board of Governor's policies blamed for fake Voice of America interview

[caption id="attachment_10408" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Snapshot of a VOA Russian Service blog under porn attack."][/caption] One can make a very good argument that going all web and eliminating Voice

Twitter and internet freedom: distinguish democracies from dictatorships

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Reports that Twitter is planning to ‘censor’ the content of certain tweets has caused alarm amongst pro-democracy bloggers

United States – Reporters Without Borders to close its English-language site for 24 hours in protest against SOPA and…

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - In an unprecedented move, Reporters Without Borders will shut down its English-language website for 24 hours from 8 a.m. EST tomorrow,

'Old white guys' meet 'cute young intern' and First Amendment at the Broadcasting Board of Governors

A commentary by BBG Watch Cute High School Intern Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) officials have gotten so used to running their small federal agency like their own

Iran – Death sentences and national Internet – escalating repression in Iran

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - The Iranian government's constant repressive policies towards journalists and netizens are being steadily ratcheted up as part of a generalized increase

Chinese writer-dissident given nine years for online posts – CPJ

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) -

New York, December 23, 2011 --- The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns China's harsh sentencing of online journalist and activist Chen

CUSIB's Reggie Littlejohn welcomes attempt by Christian Bale to visit Chen Guangcheng

The president of Women's Rights Without Frontiers Reggie Littlejohn, who is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB), said

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Human rights advocate Reggie Littlejohn welcomes attempt by Christian Bale to visit Chen Guangcheng

The president of Women's Rights Without Frontiers Reggie Littlejohn, who is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB), said

Russia – Vkontakte social network targeted by security services – RSF

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Pavel Durov, the founder and director general of the Russian online social network Vkontakte, was summoned to the Saint Petersburg prosecutor's

Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting members to testify in Congress – CUSIB

Harry Wu, Executive Director of the Laogai Research Foundation and Laogai Museum, and Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women's Rights Without Frontiers, will appear as panel witnesses

US International Broadcasting and the BBG: The Numbers Game

The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has announced that its own surveys (These are not completely independent surveys. They are produced by a contractor, InterMedia, for whom

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US International Broadcasting and the BBG: The Numbers Game

The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has announced that its own surveys (These are not completely independent surveys. They are produced by a contractor, InterMedia, for whom the

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C-Span on interview with Voice of America Director: VOA gradually ending broadcasts to China – BBG Watch

Appearing on the C-Span's program The Communicators, the Voice of America (VOA) newly-appointed Director, David Ensor, discussed how the U.S. government-funded broadcasting service and "national and international news

Strategic U.S. Broadcasting Plan from Absentee Board Raises Many Questions — Free Media Online

FreeMediaOnline.org Washington, D.C - Truckee, CA, November 1, 2011 -- Free Media Online Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has released

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