All posts tagged Public Diplomacy

Buenos Dias or Buenos Noches for Voice of America Spanish Broadcasts

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. ​​​​APPEAL TO THE CONGRESS SAVE VOICE OF AMERICA SPANISH BROADCASTS TO LATIN AMERICA In …

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At Broadcasting Board of Governors, public diplomacy starts at how its executives treat their most vulnerable foreign employees

How an employer treats his employees determines how loyal they are, how well they perform and how an organization they work for is perceived by the public. Public

U.S. public diplomacy chief Tara Sonenshine to visit the disappearing Voice of America

[caption id="attachment_14296" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Tara Sonenshine"][/caption] The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) executives who have embarrassed the Obama Administration by their decision to

Something rotten in the state of the BBG

A guest commentary by Edite Lynch The continued flow of information from people in the know concerning the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and concurrently the International Broadcasting

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

Confused IBB and BBG bureaucracy grows at the expense of strategy, national interests and public diplomacy

Of late, a lot of confusion at the BBG, IBB and all of U.S. international broadcasting. Confusion about the actual VOA mission codified in the VOA Charter

Linguistic Peking Duck Soup at Broadcasting Board of Governors

The Broadcasting Board of Governors has unveiled its budget proposal for FY2013 which calls for eliminating Voice of America radio, television and Internet programs in Cantonese, ending

BBG insider's comments on MountainRunner.us

Matt Armstrong's post on his public diplomacy blog MountainRunner.us, "Discussing the BBG’s (dys)function," generated a comment from a VOA/BBG insider. There

Broadcasting Board of Governors member lashes out against domestic critics, calling them 'cowards'

BBG Watch Commentary We have just heard that the chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors Walter Isaacson is stepping down from his post at the BBG. He is

'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

BBG Watch launches Public Diplomacy section, warns against diminished public oversight of U.S. international broadcasting

With the unfortunate demise of the United States Diplomacy Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, citizen input into how

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

Declinism redux? — NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): We’ve heard about the new authoritarianism, the rise of the rest, the reputed appeal of the China model,

BBG Watch comments on VOA in China in IC therefore IM AU blog

BBG Watch has published comments on the IC therefore IM American University blog article A New Take on Public

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Heritage Foundation Panel Discusses Radio Silence in China: VOA Abandons the Airwaves

Participants in a panel discussion organized this week in Washington by the Heritage Foundation criticized the Broadcasting Board of Governors's (BBG) plan to end Voice of America (VOA)

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