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New Leadership Is Exactly What Voice of America Needs Commentary By Helle C. Dale is the Heritage Foundations senior fellow in public diplomacy. Her work focuses on the U.S. government’s institutions and programs for strategic outreach to the public of foreign countries, as well as more traditional diplomacy. Read her research. Voice of America is under new leadership starting this week. Author and veteran broadcaster Robert Reilly became the new director of the U.S. government’s flagship b...

Radio Free Europe fires a prominent Russian journalist — and the Kremlin smirks Paul Farhi © Georgiy Alexandrov Timur Olevskiy in Moscow in 2019. To his Russian admirers, Timur Olevskiy is a kind of latter-day Walter Cronkite or Mike Wallace, a trusted journalist and fearless muckraker. In a country where the press is suppressed and many prying reporters have been killed, Olevskiy has been a rare independent voice, operating outside state controls as a star host for Radio...

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...

Margaret Sullivan: Restoring the Voice of America after a Trump wrecking ball wont be easy, but its worth saving Summary: Now the Voice of America is under siege, thanks to the efforts of Michael Pack, President Donald Trumps appointed chief of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA as well as Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia and others. Written By: Margaret Sullivan | × The Voice of America headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The global news organi...

The voice of which America? The voice of which America? Only the most naive imagine that the international broadcasting organization called Voice of America speaks for us all. (December 10, 2020 / JNS) Whether most Americans even know it, they are paying for an international broadcasting organization called Voice of America, or VOA. Yet only the most naive imagine that it speaks for us all. In reality, though its charter confidently promises to “represent America, not any single segment of Am...

Where wasn’t the presence of Phil Irwin felt in Rappahannock County? A constant of virtually all proceedings of the Rappahannock County community and government, cherished innkeeper of Caledonia Farm – 1812, founding member of the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection, regional director of the Virginia Farm Bureau, committee member for both Rappahannock County Farmland Preservation and the Agricultural Forestal District, Rappahannock tourism advisory member — for 25 years chief...

Thomas jefferson film. >> michael, what do you hope that people will take away then from watching this on pbs tonight? i presume it will be aired other times around the country. >> well, we do present hamilton just as you said, as the founder of democratic capitalism. but i hope that the complexity of his story comes out, the many layers, his own personal background as well as a good sense for his achievements beyond all those things. he -- really -- he was illegitimate, he came from a difficult...