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The Voice of America building in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (CN) — The head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media illegally funneled millions from his nonprofit to a for-profit film company, the attorney general for the District of Columbia claims in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. Michael Pack, appointed by President Donald Trump last year, formed the nonprofit Public Media Lab in 2007 and served as the organization’s president and chief executive officer until his nomination. Since 2008, according to the complaint, tax-exempt funds have flowed from PML to Manifold Productions, a film c...

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” ...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 20:15 UTC © RFE/RL Editors and section chiefs at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty have sent a letter to Congress claiming their agency head is threatening their journalistic autonomy and stellar reputation, both of which are dubious concepts at best. The actions of Michael Pack, head of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), are "intended to revoke RFE/RL's financial autonomy" and "embed" his appointees within the service's board of directors for two years, in an "unprecedented departure" from its tradition of working with changing administrations, says the letter dated W...

April 1, 2021 | 3:13 pm EDT by Scott R. Flick Few rules in the Code of Federal Regulations have as tortured a history as 47 CFR § 73.3555 — the broadcast multiple ownership rules. The subject of court decisions too numerous to count, a brief review of FCC decisions revising (or deciding not to revise) these rules reveals a twisted mass of logic and rationales where parties fiercely argue even as to the very reason for their existence. Today, the Supreme Court released a  unanimous decision reversing the Third Circuit’s ruling involving three ownership rules, noting simply that the FCC...