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USAGM
Record audience growth for independent reporting aided by demand in China, Iran and Russia
USAGM released annual impact numbers indicating its programming is reaching larger audiences than ever despite increasingly challenging media environments. The measured weekly audience grew to 345 million people in FY 2018, from 278 million people in FY 2017, an unprecedented increase of 67 million.
New programming, MBN transformation the focus of USAGM Board of Governors’ meeting
USAGM carries exclusive coverage of UNGA to its global audience
Modernization and transformation the focus of first board meeting under new agency name
Public diplomacy expert Shawn Powers joins BBG as Senior Advisor
VOA
VOA begins broadcasting in Lingala language
VOA becomes the first international broadcaster to air content in Lingala, the language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central Africa Republic and Angola.
RFE/RL
ECHR Extends Ban On Ukrainian Government Access To RFE/RL Journalist’s Data
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) welcomed a European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decision to extend its order banning public authorities in Ukraine from accessing cell phone data belonging to RFE/RL Ukrainian Service journalist Natalia Sedletska.
RFE/RL President ends tenure with high marks for innovation and impact
RFE/RL names leadership for Romania and Bulgaria news services
RFE/RL Welcomes European Court Ruling On Ukrainian Journalist’s Cellphone Data
RFE/RL outraged at data disclosure order targeting Ukrainian investigative journalist
OCB
BBG names Tomás P. Regalado to lead Office of Cuba Broadcasting
BBG appoints veteran journalist Tomás P. Regalado as Director of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB).
RFA
Radio Free Asia launches documentary on former Uyghur detainees
A Radio Free Asia (RFA) documentary, Behind the Walls: Three Uyghurs Detail their Experience in China's Secret 'Re-education' Camps, interviews former Uyghur inmates of the notorious “political re-education camps” in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
MBN
Alhurra opens the door to free speech and freedom of expression
Alhurra Television enhances its roster of programs that encourage critical thinking, honest dialogue and analytic debate with two new shows, Islam Hurr (Arabic for “Free Islam”) and Forbidden.
