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The U.S. Agency for Global Media has dismissed Voice of America's Director Michael Abramowitz for failing to accept demotion, ...
Under the law, I can only be removed from my position as director of VOA with the approval of the International Broadcasting ...
The move comes a week after Michael Abramowitz said his lawyers were challenging a "plainly illegal' attempt to force him out ...
USAGM's Office of Cuba Broadcasting has been broadcasting news and information to Cubans since 1985. But in recent years, the Miami-based broadcaster has faced criticism about the journalistic ...
USAGM, with a current budget of about $800 million, is the umbrella organization for taxpayer-funded international broadcasting, including Voice of America.
The recent USAGM leadership hired Putinist propaganda media operatives. It fired journalists after pressure from Beijing. It censored the news in response to pressure from communist Vietnam.
War on Trump USAGM Pick Michael Pack Undermines U.S. Battle With China | Opinion Published Jul 13, 2020 at 7:30 AM EDT Updated Jul 13, 2020 at 10:38 AM EDT By Ben Weingarten ...
USAGM officials have a long history of hindering the volunteer work of USAGM Watch (known as BBG Watch before 2018). They registered the domain name USAGMWatch.com to prevent us from using it.
USAGM in a press release the next day described it as “Pack (effecting) a series of significant and long-overdue actions to keep assurances to restructure the agency, fully in accordance with ...
Chief Financial Officer Grant Turner, who had been USAGM's acting CEO and director before Pack's arrival, is the most senior official affected. He had returned to the role of the company's chief ...
In a letter Friday, four former USAGM board members, including two former ambassadors, urged to him “protect” the “critical U.S. asset” he inherited “by respecting the firewall ...
"USAGM paid for over 1,600 hours of McGuireWoods attorneys' time who billed at a rate in excess of $500 per hour," it stated.