January 08, 2013 Washington DC 5:28 PM


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  • Smith-Mundt

    New Law Allows Domestic Use of VOA Reports

    Voice of America will soon be able to make its programs available to the U.S. public following passage of new legislation that eliminates the longstanding ban on domestic distribution of VOA programs.

  • Music Alley

    New Shows Build on VOA Music Legacy

    Grammy winners and pop legends headline two exciting new VOA television programs that showcase the best of American music, and carry on a Voice of America tradition that is credited with helping popularize jazz around the world.

  • Radio Farda and VOA's Persian radio show start the day on new VOA satellite TV feed.

    Audiences in Iran Get New Breakfast Shows on VOA Satellite

    Iranians can begin their day with a new, two hour block of live television programming from RFE/RL's Radio Farda and VOA Persian Television, through a groundbreaking collaboration between the two international broadcasters.

  • VOA Director David Ensor (center right) along with Myint Myint Win (center left), Managing Director of Sky Net, sign the agreement to broadcast VOA content to Burma. US Ambassador Derek Mitchell (right) looks on.

    Agreement Signed to Put VOA Programs on Sky Net Satellite TV to Burma

    Audiences in Burma will soon have a new way to watch Voice of America television programs following a breakthrough agreement signed with Sky Net, a regional direct-to-home satellite provider.


​​​​David Ensor condemns attack in Mali.​​

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  • Covering the developments of the M23 rebel movement in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, VOA journalist Gabe Jaselow reports from the town of Sake, just outside of Goma.
  • VOA Persian Service journalist Setareh Sieg visits the Syrian Jordanian border and interviews young girls at the Zaatari refugee camp. These girls are among many children whose fathers have disappeared or are currently fighting against the Syrian government. (October 2012)
  • VOA reporter Luis Ramirez interviews Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta during his visit to Siem Reap, Cambodia, Nov 16, 2012. DoD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
  • VOA's Russian Service reporter Fatima Tlisova testifies before the Lantos Human Rights Commission on the situation of the North Caucasus region of Russia, November 15, 2012.  VOA photo by Lisa Ferdinando
  • Amongst the debris in Aleppo, reporter Scott Bobb gathers information regarding the bloody battle for control of Syria's second largest city. (October 19th, 2012)
  • VOA Spanish election team: Ramon Taylor (L), Carmen Centro (C), and Gilberto Cabrera (R) pose at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL. The Spanish Service is providing live reports to affiliate stations throughout Latin America.
  • VOA’s Philip Alexiou talks to Planetary geologist Dr. Ross Irwin III at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Center for Earth and Planetary Studies about the complexities of the recent Mars mission and Irwin’s involvement.
  • Henry Ridgwell reports outside the Ceylanpinar refugee camp in Turkey, near the Syrian border, where Syrians are fleeing to escape the intensified fighting between government and rebel forces in their country, August 2, 2012.
  • VOA Pentagon reporter Luis Ramirez (right) records comments from U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta (center) on Syria and Israel-Iran nuclear, en route to Tunis, the first stop of a five-day Middle East tour. July 29, 2012.
  • VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Jim Brooke appears with a panel of guests on Echo Moskvi Radio to discuss the Olympics and gun control in the United States.
  • VOA Correspondent Al Pessin interviews a wounded Free Syrian Army fighter in Wadi Khaled Lebanon. July 22, 2012.
  • VOA Korean Service reporter, Sungwon Baik, attends a press conference by North Korean space officials in Pyongyang. April 10, 2012.
  • Children flash the peace sign to VOA reporter Scott Bobb during an anti-Assad demo in Marae on the Syrian Turkish border on August 17th, 2012.
  • VOA Burmese Service Correspondent Kyaw Kyaw Thein reports from Aung San Suu Kyi's victory speech at NLD headquarters in Ragoon on April 2, 2012.
  • VOA reporter Suzanne Presto interviews former astronaut and US Senator John Glenn about the arrival of the space shuttle Discovery at its new home at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.
  • VOA religion reporter Jerome Socolovsky on the streets of Havana covering the visit by the Pope.

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A Syrian Kurdish child at a protest rally holds a poster thanking Voice of America’s Kurdish Service for its coverage of the uprising in Syria. VOA recently began broadcasting its radio programs on direct to home satellite TV.

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