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Government Executive email Michael Pack dismissed the previous ones shortly after coming into office in June. The leader of the global media agency recently brought on new heads of its broadcasting networks after removing the previous ones upon coming into office last June.  Besides dismissing the network heads, Michael Pack, CEO of the U.S. Global Media Agency, has been making other controversial management and editorial changes over the last seven months. Last month, the Office of S...

U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO Michael Pack is seeking to retain control over networks such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty even after the incoming Biden administration replaces him. Credit: U.S. Agency for Global Media Trump Appointee Seeks Lasting Control Over Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia By at 8:01 pm NPR Michael Packs stormy tenure over the federal agency that oversees government-funded broadcasters abroad - including the Voice of America - app...

U.S. Agency for Global Media hide caption toggle caption U.S. Agency for Global Media U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO Michael Pack is seeking to retain control over networks such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty even after the incoming Biden administration replaces him. U.S. Agency for Global Media Michael Packs stormy tenure over the federal agency that oversees government-funded broadcasters abroad — including Voice of America — appears to be com...

Building the (Fire) Wall: Internet Censorship in the United States and China 28.Dec.2020 9:00 AM . 9 min read In a time of ever-increasing wealth of information on the internet, China has become notorious for having the most stringent internet censorship policies and surveillance systems in the world. Search engines and social media platforms that are ubiquitous in the United States and much of the world—like Google, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter—are blocked from China’s inte...

Radio Waves:  Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Because I keep my ear to the waves, as well as receive many tips from others who do the same, I find myself privy to radio-related stories that might interest  SWLing Post readers.  To that end:  Welcome to the  SWLing Post’s Enjoy! Many thanks to  SWLing Post contributors Ted Lipien, Josh Shepperd, Ronnie Smith, and Gary Butterworth,  for the following tips: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Michael Pack, CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global M...

He contended that bureaucratic opposition from within and from Capitol Hill to needed reforms — including major personnel security problems and bias within VOA’s Chinese and South Asian services — reflected the politicization and bias of mainstream media outlets that reached a crescendo during the Trump administration. “The culture in the VOA newsroom and a lot of the journalists working here is not that dissimilar to the culture of journalists working in the mainstream media more gener...

President-elect Joe Biden has announced that he intends to hold a “Summit for Democracy” in his first year in office. His emphasis on the United States’ democratic allies and partners is a welcome change from President Donald Trump’s bromances with autocrats. On its face, the summit’s agenda—to “strengthen our democratic institutions, honestly confront the challenge of nations that are backsliding, and forge a common agenda to address threats to our common values”—seems straig...

Eight steps to a stronger US Public Diplomacy Donald M. Bishop, opinion contributor © Getty Images Eight steps to a stronger US Public Diplomacy The foreign policy community has come alive with papers, studies and advice for President-elect Biden and his foreign affairs team. Let me add something simple - a short to-do list for Americas Public Diplomacy. Energizing it need not wait for new money, and it can begin right away, even before a full team is confirmed by the Senate....

Broadcasting board of gofr nor -- governors, which underwrote -- >> you also accused the clinton campaign of human rights abuses, going after you because youre a man and a catholic. >> look, it is well founded, and again, its their lawyers that have admitted to this. they were paying for this dodgy dossier. that came out last october. so a lot of the allegations, things we were talking about last march when we were having our conversation, a lot keeps being proven true. it only gets worse. >> it...

Sort of move the message during the campaign? >> the funny thing i found out about that is the january 6th, 2012017 intel report from mr. clapper was saying its r.t., spu sputnik, very big organizations. whats interesting about the new case, its really chump change invested. >> a million dollars, i think. >> in terms of facebook adds, a couple hundred dollars here or there. compare that to the broadcasting board of governs, a u.s. federal agency, funding radio free europe, putting out these defa...