Today the Broadcasting Board of Governors hosted a visit from Brooke Loughrin, the first-ever US Youth Observer to the United Nations. Loughrin toured the Voice of America, and did an interview in English with the BBG Office of Policy as well as an interview in Read more »
Springfield, Va. — As Egypt faces a pivotal step on its road to democracy, Alhurra Television and Radio Sawa will provide comprehensive coverage of the constitutional referendum vote scheduled for Dec. 15th and 22nd. Alhurra Television and Radio Sawa’s correspondents are stationed across the country Read more »
The Broadcasting Board of Governors Strategy & Budget Committee is scheduled to hold a closed meeting Dec. 13 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at agency headquarters in Washington, D.C. The agenda includes discussion of strategies for Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Read more »
Washington, DC – Voice of America (VOA) journalists are sharing their experience and expertise with students at Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communication under a cooperative agreement with the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA Executive Producer Jerry Brown recently visited Hampton University Read more »
RANGOON, BURMA – Audiences in Burma will soon have a new way to watch Voice of America television programs following a breakthrough agreement between the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the U.S. government agency responsible for VOA, and Sky Net, a regional direct-to-home satellite provider. Read more »
The Broadcasting Board of Governors’ Governance Committee will meet on Thursday, December 13, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at BBG Headquarters in Washington. The Committee will discuss the proposed creation of CEO to oversee BBG activities, the status of the International Broadcasting Innovation Act, Read more »
Today the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) hosted Transparency International and the Transparency International USA chapter as they presented the findings of 2012 Corruption Perception Index. “After a year of focus on corruption, we expect governments to take a tougher stance against the abuse of Read more »
International Broadcasting Bureau Director Richard Lobo was honored with the Gold Circle Award by the Suncoast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for outstanding service to broadcasting over a career that has spanned more than fifty years. Lobo, who was appointed Read more »
The Broadcasting Board of Governors held a full board meeting on Dec. 14, 2012, at 1 p.m. at BBG Headquarters in Washington, D.C. PRESS RELEASE Documents Record of Decisions Minutes of the BBG Meeting of October 11, 2012 Preliminary Statement of Guidelines for Governors and Read more »
Access to the website of RFE/RL’s Tajik service, Radio Ozodi, has been blocked in Tajikistan since last night, only days after authorities blocked Facebook inside the country. Beg Zukhurov, the head of the State Communications Service, confirmed Radio Ozodi’s blockage in an interview with the news portal Asia Read more »
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