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The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Acting CEO Kelu Chao today to discuss the vital role that free and independent media play in the preservation and promotion of democratic principles worldwide.  Secretary Blinken expressed his strong support for USAGM-affiliated networks around the world, including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia (RFA), the Voice of America (VOA), the Middle East Broadcasting Network (MBN), and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB). The editorially ...

share Print WASHINGTON -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has expressed his support for U.S. international media amid concerns over Russian efforts to shut down and muzzle RFE/RL under its controversial “foreign agent” law. Blinken met on April 6 with the acting head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), Kelu Chao, “to discuss the vital role that free and independent media play in the preservation and promotion of democratic principles worldwide,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement. Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor has hit RFE/RL’s Russian-lan...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Sunday installed new heads of three federally funded international broadcasters after abruptly firing Donald Trump-appointees at the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

The acting chief of the U.S. Agency for Global Media has fired the leaders of multiple federally funded news outlets as part of the Biden administrations sweeping effort to clear the agency of allies of former President Donald Trump. The acting chief, Kelu Chao, fired the heads of Radio

Biden is firing some top Trump holdovers, but in some cases, his hands may be tied Lisa Rein, Anne Gearan Replay Video UP NEXT President Biden is trying to shake a Trump hangover in the federal government by acting to remove some holdovers and install his own appointees, but a quiet push to salt federal agencies with Trump loyalists is complicating the new president’s effort to turn the page. The Biden team, showing a willingness to cut tenures short, moved quickly last week to dump several of high-profile, Senate-confirmed Trump appointees whose terms extended beyond ...