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Voice of America will celebrate 70th anniversary of broadcasting to China with a reception on Capitol Hill

Voice of America (VOA) employees and their supporters will celebrate 70 years of VOA broadcasting to China with a Capitol Hill reception hosted by Congressman Dana Rohrabacher on Tuesday, December 6th at the Rayburn House Office Building, BBG Watch reported. …

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BBG executives close down Voice of America broadcasting services, pay themselves hefty bonuses

This report was prompted by the news of the Voice of America Croatian Service being forced off the air and the Internet on the orders of the

Deloitte BBG Grantee Consolidation Assessment

Deloitte Tells BBG to Move Quickly with Consolidation

"If VOA constitutes communications essential to national security, privatization may not be feasible," - Deloitte
"If VOA constitutes communications essential to national security, privatization may not be feasible,"

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

Vietnam – Two citizen journalists jailed for illegally broadcasting to China -RSF

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the sentencing today of two citizen radio journalists, Vu Duc Trung and his brother-in-law Le

Women and Their Families in China Who Are Victims of Human Rights Abuses Need Voice of America Radio

The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) issued a press release on CUSIB Executive Director Ann Noonan's speech in support of continuing Voice of America (VOA) radio

United States – Absurd charges brought against reporters covering Occupy Wall Street movement – RSF

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Sometimes they are arrested and then set free almost immediately. Sometimes they are arrested and, before being released, are charged with

BBG Strategic Plan, 2011

Strategic U.S. Broadcasting Plan from Absentee Board Raises Many Questions

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

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The “New” BBG Strategic Plan, Part Three: Thoughts on “Freedom and Democracy”

by The Federalist Let’s take a moment to review the VOA Charter: “The long-range interests of the United States are served by communicating directly with the peoples of the world

Russia – Government eager to use Net surveillance software currently in test phase — RSF

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders condemns plans by Roskomnadzor, Russia's federal supervisory agency for communications, information technology and mass media, to use search

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Putin goes after Radio Svoboda on Russian TV — CUSIB and BBG Watch

In a prime-time interview aired on October 17 with the heads of Russia's three largest television stations, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that during the Cold War,

Why Russia’s democrats need West’s support — NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Konstantin Fetisov was badly beaten for his campaign against the construction of an $8 billion Moscow-St. Petersburg

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Swedish journalists on trial in Ethiopia — Voice of America journalists already penalized — BBG Watch

BBG Watch -- As the trial of two Swedish journalists gets underway in Ethiopia, it is worth remembering that a Voice of America journalist David Arnold was dismissed

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