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U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO Michael Pack. Credit: U.S. Agency for Global Media Voice of America CEO Accused Of Fraud, Misuse of Office All In One Week By at 3:38 pm NPR Fresh crises and fresh challenges confront the Trump-appointed CEO of the parent of Voice of America, even with less than two weeks left of the Trump presidency. To start, the Attorney General of the District of Columbia this week accused U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO Michael Pack of illegally funneling more than $4 million to his private documentary company through a not-for-profit t...

Pack has decided on the latter. The most consequential prerogative of the USAGM CEO is to name the heads of USAGM’s “entities”: the directors of its two agencies, Voice of America and Office of Cuba Broadcasting (Radio Martí) and the presidents of its three nonprofit corporations, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks (Alhurra and Radio Sawa).  ADVERTISEMENT In his choices, during what is likely the last weeks of his leadership, Pack deployed the equivalent of grenades to destroy the credibility of the U.S. international broadc...

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 Special Counsel determined in its ongoing investigation that there is a “substantial likelihood” ...

WASHINGTON — A former White House aide falsely accused of penning anonymous criticism of President Donald Trump has been named to head the U.S. government’s Arabic-language broadcasting outlets. Victoria Coates was appointed on Tuesday by Trump’s handpicked head of U.S.-funded international broadcasting to run the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. She had been suspected in some […]

Matthew Lee December 23, 2020 - 6:57 AM WASHINGTON - A former White House aide falsely accused of penning anonymous criticism of President Donald Trump has been named to head the U.S. government’s Arabic-language broadcasting outlets. Victoria Coates was appointed on Tuesday by Trump’s handpicked head of U.S.-funded international broadcasting to run the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. She had been suspected in some circles of being the inside administration critic who authored the book “Anonymous" but had strenuously denied it and vindicated when ...