Project 25 state media plot may backfire While most programs are on the chopping block, Project 2025 authors take a keen interest in American state media Salon · Dec 10, 2024
Journalists Denied Credentials To Trump's Election Night Watch Event Multiple news organizations' journalists denied credentials to Trump's election night event in West Palm Beach, Florida. Top News · Nov 5, 2024
Spanish journalist or Russian spy? The mystery around Pablo González's double life Among the Russians freed in this week's historic exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West was a Russian-born freelance journalist from Spain who had been based in Poland since 2019 The Independent UK · Aug 4, 2024
Junta-led Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks Burkina Faso has suspended the BBC and Voice of America radio networks from broadcasting after they aired a rights report accusing the army of attacks on civilians in its battle against jihadists. International Business Times · Apr 26, 2024
Burkina Faso suspends BBC, Voice of America for reporting on army killings In a new report, Human Rights Watch said military forces ‘summarily executed’ 223 civilians in February. Al Jazeera · Apr 26, 2024
Foreign journalists in China face surveillance, harassment, and visa problems Foreign journalists reporting in China face obstacles, including visa problems, surveillance and harassment by police or other officials while on assignment, Voice of America (VOA) reported, citing the annual survey by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (FCCC). Read further on Dynamite News: Dynamite News · Apr 11, 2024
Commentary: DC Memorial to honor slain Capital Gazette journalists and US commitment to a free press In the 1980s, Ben Cardin and I went to Congress from very different places, both politically and geographically. I was a young Republican elected in 1980 from a suburban Los Angeles district as Ronald Reagan swept into the White House. Six years later, Ben was elected as a Baltimore Democrat… Tribune News Service · Jun 30, 2023
Federal inquiry details abuses of power by Trump's CEO over Voice of America Investigators found Trump's appointee at the U.S. Agency for Global Media repeatedly abused his power. "It just takes one's breath away," says David Seide, a lawyer who represented whistleblowers. WEKU · May 21, 2023
NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media' NPR's official Twitter feeds have gone silent. The news organization cites the social media platform's decision to question NPR's editorial independence through a series of inaccurate labels. WEKU · Apr 12, 2023
Elon Musk under fire for Twitter’s shifting rules on state media Disinformation scholars sound alarm amid growing prominence of Chinese and Russian state media accounts on platform. Al Jazeera · Apr 12, 2023
Ukraine Intel Chief Sees No Signs China Plans to Arm Russia Ukraine's head of military intelligence has brushed aside claims that China is considering furnishing arms to Russia, telling US media that he saw no "signs that such things are even being discussed". Senior US officials have said as recently as Sunday that they were "confident" China was considering providing lethal… Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 28, 2023
Senior EU official calls for a ‘Radio Free Russia’ to help exiled media Vĕra Jourová says the bloc has a moral duty and the project would not necessarily mean a new station The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2023
Ukraine defence minister says forces will train on German tanks in Poland - VOA Ukrainian forces will train on Leopard-2 battle tanks in Poland, Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov was quoted as saying on Friday, even though allies failed to reach an agreement to supply the German-made vehicles to Kyiv. Reuters · Jan 21, 2023
Thai student attacked on bus in San Francisco A 31-year-old Thai woman was attacked by a man on a public bus in San Francisco and sustained an ear injury, in what in the victim claimed was a racially motivated assault, the Thai service of Voice of America reported on Saturday. Bangkok Post · Dec 24, 2022
Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 18, 2022 Journalist Suspensions Widen Rift between Twitter and Media Elon Musk's abrupt suspension of several journalists who cover Twitter widens a growing rift between the social media site and media organizations that have used the platform to build their audiences. Individual reporters with The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and other news agencies saw…
The Independent UK · Dec 16, 2022 Twitter suspends journalists who wrote about owner Elon Musk Twitter suspended the accounts of several journalists who cover the social media platform, the latest battle over what can and cannot be said on the site since billionaire Elon Musk took control of it
Newslaundry · Dec 16, 2022 Free speech hypocrisy?: Elon Musk suspends multiple journalists from Twitter Elon Musk’s free speech project at Twitter is going well. The maverick billionaire has seemingly launched a wide-ranging content moderation, re-platforming and de-platforming regime at the social media platform that he acquired recently.
WEKU · Oct 3, 2022 Around the world, protesters take to the streets in solidarity with Iranian women The gatherings are an echo of the protests that have erupted in Iran since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been detained by the country's so-called morality police.
Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 3, 2022 US Denies Releasing Iranian Funds Held Abroad in Exchange for Setting Namazi Free The Biden administration has welcomed Iran allowing the US-Iranian dual national Bagher Namazi to leave the country after having banned him from travel for seven years but denied that the release was linked to unfreezing Iranian funds in South Korea. Namazi’s son, Siamak Namazi, was also granted a provisional release…
The Conversation · Sep 23, 2022 US and Russia engage in a digital battle for hearts and minds The battle over Ukraine extends across the world: Information warfare is quickly evolving as key nations seek to influence public opinion and gain political support.
WEKU · Aug 19, 2022 Trump's VOA chief paid 'extravagantly' to investigate critics: Watchdog A law firm received $1.6 million in taxpayer money to investigate officials at the U.S. Agency for Global Media. An inspector general has concluded that was a "gross waste" of federal resources.
Asharq Al-Awsat · Jul 1, 2022 Turkey Blocks Access to Deutsche Well and Voice of America Turkey’s media watchdog has banned access to the Turkish services of US public service broadcaster Voice of America and German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, prompting criticism of censorship. The Supreme Board of Radio and Television enforced a February decision requiring international media that air television content in Turkish online to apply…
Reuters · Jun 15, 2022 Exclusive-U.S. targets Russia with tech to evade censorship of Ukraine news The U.S. government has pushed new, increased funding into three technology companies since the start of the Ukraine conflict to help Russians sidestep censors and access Western media, according to five people familiar with the situation.
The Independent UK · Mar 22, 2022 US, Ukraine quietly try to pierce Putin's propaganda bubble The U.S. has been countering disinformation coming from the Kremlin on the violent conflict in Ukraine
Reuters · Mar 4, 2022 Russia restricts access to BBC and Voice of America - RIA Russia's state communications watchdog said on Friday it had blocked the BBC, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Deutsche Welle and other media outlets for spreading "fake" information, the RIA news agency reported.