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• Chucho Valdés: Inspiration from VOA Jazz Hours

  
  The SWLing Post — Authority: 109
  (Source: Kim Elliott via the Hartford Courant ) 24 Jan 2012, Owen McNally: “Still very much an irrepressible life-force at 70, Chucho Valdés , the renowned Cuban pianist, composer and bandleader, is on a winter tour of the United States that sets down for high-energy maneuvers … at the cabaret series at the ...
  2 days ago

• The Voice of America turns 70

  
  The SWLing Post — Authority: 109
  (Source: Diplomatic Courier ) “The news may be good. The news may be bad. We shall tell you the truth.” – William Harlan Hale; February 1, 1942 Such began the first broadcast of a small team of dedicated men transmitting live from a claustrophobic New York City studio into Nazi Germany.  Their group had ...
  2 days ago

• All Quiet on the Western Front: a look at the Five-Year Strategic Plan for U.S. International Broadcasting

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 147
  By Alan L. Heil Jr. This article originally appeared at American Diplomacy. It is republished here, slightly modified, with permission of the author and American Diplomacy. As the Voice of America marks its 70th anniversary, what lies ahead for all of the world’s publicly-funded overseas networks in the year ...
  1 week ago

• VOA Reporter Killed In Pakistan, BBG Watch urges BBG to do more to take care of contract and overseas-based employees

  
  Free Media Online Blog — Authority: 113
  BBG Watch reporters and contributors, many of us former and current Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees, are shocked and saddened by the killing in Pakistan of Mukarram Khan Aatif, a reporter for Voice of America’s Deewa Radio. This tragedy shows what great sacrifices Voice of America overseas-based ...
  2 weeks ago

• BBG Plans Hit Major Rocks and Realities in VOA Central News – The Federalist

  
  Free Media Online Blog — Authority: 113
  The entities – all the entities – function better as self-contained units, serving their respective missions and intended audiences. — The Federalist We could not agree more with this statement from The Federalist, one of our regular and popular contributors See the article here: BBG Plans Hit Major Rocks and ...
  2 weeks ago

• CUSIB’s open letter to BBG urges greater public scrutiny of U.S. international broadcasting

  
  Free Media Online Blog — Authority: 113
  The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) has sent an open letter to members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) warning against a threat of diminished public control over U.S. overseas broadcasts under the BBG’s proposed reorganization plan. Go here to see the original: CUSIB’s open ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gunmen kill Pakistani journalist who reported on Taliban

  
  Free Media Online Blog — Authority: 113
  Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – New York, January 17, 2012–Unidentified gunmen killed broadcast journalist Mukarram Khan Aatif in a mosque north of Peshawar today, according to news reports. Aatif was a correspondent for private TV station Dunya News and also worked for Deewa Radio, a Pashto-language ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gunmen Kill VOA Reporter in Pakistan

  
  AIT News, Thailand news — Authority: 132
  Gunmen in northwest Pakistan shot and killed a reporter working for the Voice of America on Tuesday near his home in Shabqadar, roughly 35 kilometers from Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Mukarram Khan Aatif, who filed reports for VOA’s Deewa Radio, was in a mosque when two assailants on ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘Old white guys’ meet ‘cute young intern’ and First Amendment at the Broadcasting Board of Governors

  
  Free Media Online Blog — Authority: 113
  A commentary by BBG Watch Cute High School Intern Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) officials have gotten so used to running their small federal agency like their own private country club that they still frequently forget that at least some of their meetings can now be viewed online. While the video from the last ...
  2 weeks ago

• Isaacson compromises in battle over public control of U.S. international broadcasting

  
  Free Media Online Blog — Authority: 113
  The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) chairman Walter Isaacson has modified some of his positions on the reorganization of U.S. international broadcasting in response to criticism and pressure from individuals and groups opposed to limiting public ownership and control of U.S. Government’s journalistic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Architects of BBG’s failed China plan rewarded with new positions

  
  Free Media Online Blog — Authority: 113
  Two Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) officials described by BBG Watch sources as chief architects of the failed BBG plan to end Voice of America (VOA) radio and TV broadcasts to China have been rewarded with new positions. The International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) Director Richard Lobo named Bruce Sherman ...
  2 weeks ago

• Recognition of Voice of America broadcasts by BBG attributed to pressure from negative publicity

  
  Free Media Online Blog — Authority: 113
  The announcement by the Broadcasting Board of Governors that at the open meeting scheduled for January 13 the Board will honor the 70th anniversary of the Voice of America and recognize the anniversaries of particular BBG language services is seen by BBG Watch sources as an indication of a possible change of policy ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Voice of America logo is old but its return may be a good sign, perhaps

  
  Free Media Online Blog — Authority: 113
  There is little new about the new Voice of America logo. See the original post here: New Voice of America logo is old but its return may be a good sign, perhaps
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• Personnel Reshuffle at Voice of America may hasten the undoing of the place, BBG Watch commentator says

  
  Free Media Online Blog — Authority: 113
  A BBG Watch commentator described the announced personnel reshuffle at the Voice of America in the following terms: “This is going to have no material impact on anything except to perhaps hasten the undoing of the place.” The obvious conflict of interest stemming from the fact that John Lennon and his wife Marie ...
  2 weeks ago

• BBG seeks centralization of news output

  
  Free Media Online Blog — Authority: 113
  The BBG Chairman Walter Isaacson and his executives love centralization and central planning. (They developed a Five-Year Strategic Plan — five-year plans, does that sound familiar?) Never mind that the surrogate broadcasters like Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were established in West Germany in the 1950s as a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Some Voice of America contract employees not paid since November

  
  Free Media Online Blog — Authority: 113
  Forget about Christmas shopping and paying your mortgage. More here: Some Voice of America contract employees not paid since November
  2 weeks ago

• Free 2012 Voice of America calendar

  
  Freenology - Free Samples, Magazines, Stuff, Money, What? — Authority: 135
  http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/Request-a-2012-VOA-calendar-137025723.html †Thìs Free† §tuff †Times . C om feed should †only be read in feed readers, on the ©Freestuff Timesemail list, or the FST Google Gâdget. Any other use is copyright infrin ← gement and should be reported.© ©¥
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• Surprise at VOA’s tax proposals for next generation broadband

  
  Br0kenTeleph0n3 — Authority: 401
  Br0kenTeleph0n3′s attention has been drawn to the new Valuation Office Agency proposals on how to tax next generation networks. “It isn’t exactly what we thought it would be,” said the industry source, who has been closely involved in the discussions between the industry-led Broadband Stakeholders Group ...
  3 weeks ago

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