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Coates had been tapped to head the government-funded Middle East Broadcasting Networks under Trump.
“This is a shocking repudiation of President Biden’s call for unity and reconciliation just two days ago and a clear violation of MBN’s grant and my employment contracts,” Victoria Coates said in a statement. | Victoria Coates/MBN
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Victoria Coates, who was hired as the president of the government-funded Middle East Broadcasting Networks in the waning days of Donald Trump’s presidency, has been fired by the Biden administration, she told POLITICO.
Her deputy at the network, senior vice president Rob Greenway, got a call on Friday from his colleague Kelley Sullivan telling him that she had been notified in an email that she was acting head of MBN effective immediately and that his employment was terminated. U.S. Agency for Global Media is MBN’s parent organization.
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The Biden administration continued its swift sweep of the leadership at the Voice of America and its parent agency on Thursday. It pushed out VOA's
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