Opinion
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies1hOpinion
What the attempted dismantling of Voice of America means for press freedom in the US and the world
On March 15, the Trump administration began working to dismantle USAGM, which oversees editorially independent news outlets like Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, the ...
WBEZ2hOpinion
Now that Trump has silenced Voice of America, could U.S. public media outlets be next?
The president's decision to shutter the global news organization portends ever more troubling repression of independent ...
Anadolu Agency4hOpinion
OPINION - Shuttering VOA, Fulbright and USAID: America turns off the soft power
Trump administration failed to understand that successful communication requires credibility and that a broadcaster with ...
Trump’s decision to cut Radio Free Europe comes at a great cost to democracy
The U.S. Agency for Global Media terminated Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty's federal funding grant and placed the vast ...
US foreign assistance cuts are a sucker punch to Africa's media funding
Dismantling Voice of America is a bad sign for press freedom. But pro-democracy media programs across Africa first felt the ...
Longmont Times-Call2dOpinion
Views from the nation’s press
President Donald Trump’s silencing of the Voice of America serves him two ways: Attacking the press and doing a favor for ...
The Voice of America Falls Silent
American soft power will suffer with the Trump administration’s decision to silence Voice of America and Radio Free ...
Milwaukee Independent4dOpinion
The End of Truth: Trump accomplishes what foreign adversaries failed to do for decades by silencing VOA
“Unlike Soviet broadcasts, the Voice of America is not only committed to telling its country’s story, but also remains ...
The Christian Science Monitor4d
‘Connected to another world’: What Voice of America meant to Russians in Cold War
Voice of America was rejected by the Soviets and Vladimir Putin. But some in Moscow wax nostalgic about what the state-funded ...
Voice of America deserves criticism, but let’s fix it to tell America’s story
VOA has been struggling to fulfill its mission as a federal agency, with budget cuts, remote work, while also facing ...
AlterNet on MSN4d
From the Vatican to Latin America: Here's what the released JFK assassination files expose
The U.S. government this week released thousands more records on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, long a source of fascination and intrigue. This is the final batch of JFK files ...