Innovation Expo

BBG Holds Digital Innovation Expo

Paper USBs, translation tools, and mobile crisis intervention projects were just a few of the innovations on display at the BBG’s “Innovating at the Speed of News” event in Washington, D.C. on June 13. More

Ladies in White

Cuban Activists, Ladies in White, Visit the Martís

Three members of the human rights activist group known as the Ladies in White visited the Martí studios to meet the staff and to appear as guests on Radio and TV Martí programs. Read More

Newseum Memorial Honors VOA Reporter killed in Pakistan

Newseum Memorial Honors VOA Reporter Killed in Pakistan

Slain VOA reporter Mukarram Khan Aatif-one of 82 journalists from around the world who lost their lives in 2012-was honored in Washington as the Newseum added new names to its memorial for fallen journalists. Read More

Govs in Russia

Governors Seek to Expand U.S. International Media Efforts in Russia

Governors Meehan and McCue traveled with Acting RFE/RL President Kevin Klose to Moscow to consider matters relevant to U.S. international media in Russia.   More

Board Continues Strategic Review

January 10, 2011

The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the Agency that oversees U.S. international broadcasting, continues its strategic review with the first in a series of regional assessments. This month’s regional review will focus on Africa and will engage internal and external experts in discussions to be Read more »

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Alhurra Interviews Rep. Payne on Sudan

January 7, 2011

Alhurra’s Congressional Correspondent Rana Abtar conducted an interview with Congressman Donald M. Payne (D-NJ), Chairman of House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health regarding Sudan’s upcoming referendum vote.  Rep. Payne said that the government of Sudan should respect the outcome of the referendum Read more »

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U.S. International Broadcasting Provides Comprehensive Coverage of Historic Sudan Referendum

January 7, 2011

The U.S. International broadcasting networks of the Voice of America (VOA), Alhurra TV, Radio Sawa, and Afia Darfur, will provide extensive coverage in English and Arabic, of the historic independence referendum that begins Jan. 9 in southern Sudan.  The referendum will give residents from southern Read more »

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Cuban Blogger Tells VOA Alternative Information Networks are Growing in Cuba

January 5, 2011

Well-known Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez tells Voice of America she hopes the growth of information networks in Cuba will lead to an end of the state’s information monopoly in 2011. In an interview with VOA’s Spanish Service, Sanchez said “the Cuban blogosphere had a gradual Read more »

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Broadcasting Board of Governors

January 5, 2011

Barry Zorthian, a veteran U.S. diplomat, media advisor during the Vietnam War, Time Inc. executive, and former Voice of America (VOA) Program Manager, died on December 30 at the age of 90.  The Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees all U.S. international broadcasting including VOA, Read more »

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PNN’s Parazit Featured in Washington Post

January 4, 2011

The Persian News Network’s increasingly popular Parazit show was the focus of a Washington Post feature article published Dec. 31. While it’s impossible to measure how many people watch Parazit, which has been likened to The Daily Show because of its satirical take on the Read more »

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Radio and TV Martí to Broadcast “Alo Ciudadano”

December 30, 2010

Globovision’s citizen call-in program about life in Venezuela, Alo Ciudadano (Hello Citizen), will now reach a Cuban audience via Radio and TV Martí. As part of expanded coverage of relevant international news, TV Martí began broadcasting Alo Ciudadano on Dec. 27 and Radio Martí will Read more »

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Citizen Journalists in Belarus Tell Election Story to VOA

December 22, 2010

A new breed of citizen journalist has emerged in Belarus, and dramatic first-hand accounts of the government’s post-election crackdown are being seen and heard because of a special Voice of America effort to harness the growing power of social media. Visits to the VOA Russian Read more »

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RFE Delivers 20,000 Solar-Powered Radios To Afghans

December 21, 2010

Thousands of Afghan schoolchildren, refugees, nomads, and people living in remote villages have better access to news and information today than they did three months ago. [PHOTOGALLERY] RFE’s Radio Azadi has completed its distribution of 20,000 solar-powered, hand-cranked radios throughout Afghanistan. The project, which began Read more »

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