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Michael A. McCoy for NPR   Update your browser or Flash plugin One way to understand the capricious nature of life at Voice of America and its federal parent agency over the last seven months would have been to witness two men standing across a foosball table from each other, twisting knobs and shouting in the empty cubicles of the Spanish-language service. Every day last summer, a senior agency adviser, Dan Hanlon, and an aide spent hours playing in offices abandoned for the pandemic. Their new CEO, Michael Pack, had sidelined them almost immediately after his arrival in June, telling o...

Updated at 9:37 p.m. ET Michael Pack resigned Wednesday as the CEO of the federal agency over the Voice of America and other federally funded international

Michael Pack's record at the parent agency for the Voice of America includes charges of bias, firings, investigations and more. He called President Biden's request for him to resign a "partisan act."

Defined By Scandal At Voice of America, CEO Resigns At Biden's Request Wednesday, January 20, 2021 Trump appointee Michael Pack resigned as the head of the federal agency over the Voice of America and other broadcasters at President Biden's request. U.S. Agency for Global Media Updated at 9:37 p.m. ET Michael Pack resigned Wednesday as the CEO of the federal agency over the Voice of America and other federally funded international broadcasters after a turbulent seven-month tenure. He leaves the U.S. Agency for Global Media with a Trumpian legacy of ideological strife, lawsuits and scandal, h...

Voice of America reassigns White House reporter who tried to ask Mike Pompeo a question CNN 1/13/2021 By Nicole Gaouette, Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN © Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool/Getty Images US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo prepares to testify before a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on the State Departments 2021 budget in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. The Voice of America has effectively demoted a reporter who tried to ask questions of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after he delivered a speech praising American fre...