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 The CPD Blog is intended to stimulate dialogue among scholars, researchers, practitioners and professionals from around the world in the public diplomacy sphere.
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MAY 26, 2009
Posted by Alvin Snyder
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Permit me, if you please, to put on my hat as a former White House staffer and USIA manager to tell you what I read into Judith McHale’s becoming the next Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy. Ms. McHale brings with her an impressive record as former president of Discovery Communications, and it is true as has been noted that she has no public diplomacy experience. But neither did many of the now-storied USIA directors of yore, who are recalled fondly. The more important issue in my view is whether this White House has the State Department public diplomacy office…... Full Text
FEB 18, 2009
Posted by Alvin Snyder
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The Voice of America has one of the most popular Internet news websites in the world, and in the United States as well, based on website page turns and user reach. According to Alexa.com, which ranks websites according to their daily traffic volume, the VOA is ranked as the 53rd most popular website in the "news category" of almost 9,000 news websites on the day we looked, February 17, 2009. Of the top 100 news websites, the VOA is ranked ahead of the Guardian, the International Herald Tribune, Sky News, US News and World Report, Al Jazeera English, the Associated…... Full Text
FEB 10, 2009
Posted by Alvin Snyder
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In the battle of Internet websites to attract the most user traffic, the one site has emerged as the most popular in the entire world. At the other end of the spectrum, of course, is the inevitable loser, with the dubious honor of being ranked one millionth in website popularity. It could have been worse, as there are almost 110 million active websites, but only the top one-million are ranked in order of their daily traffic by Alexa.com. Bulging with stats, there is something for everyone in these website popularity rankings, open for interpretation as one may wish. Imagine what…... Full Text
JAN 27, 2009
Posted by Alvin Snyder
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It should come as no surprise that President Obama granted his first formal TV interview to the Middle East Arabic channel Al Arabiya. In the Middle East, the moderate news channel Al Arabiya drubs other Arabic news channels in popularity, including the controversial Al Jazeera and the U.S. government's Al Hurra,- the latter of which is getting better numbers than before, but nothing to match Al Arabiya's. According to exclusive TV audience ratings provided to me by the Middle East's Ipsos-Mena audience polling organization, President Obama's interview on Al Arabiya had an estimated total TV audience of almost 13,000,000 adult…... Full Text
JAN 7, 2009
Posted by Alvin Snyder
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The much maligned Alhurra, the U.S. government's Arabic TV service, is now a "go-to" news channel in Iraq, one of the largest TV markets in the Middle East of more than 28 million population. Because of its growing number of viewers in Iraq, Alhurra can now lay claim to its legitimate connection with the mythical "Arab Street,' a term which writer Amir Hamzaway says elites use "in the absence of independent public opinion surveys, in representing their own quite ideological views as those of the Iraqi majority and as those of Arabs generally." The latest TV ratings from the commercial…... Full Text
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