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APR 18, 2011
How China reports the Arab world
China Media Project
In a post made to his Chinese-language weblog on April 15, Ezzat Shahrour, chief correspondent for al-Jazeera Arabic in Beijing, voiced his frustration with Chinese state media reporting on the upheaval in the Arab world this year.
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APR 18, 2011
New Director of VOA, Voice of America, is David Ensor
Radio-Info.com
Ensor spent 19 years with ABC News, covering the White House and then the national security beat. In 1999, he joined CNN, and he is currently working for the government in Kabul, Afghanistan, as the U.S. Embassy’s Director of Communications and Public Diplomacy in Kabul.
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APR 17, 2011
U.S. secretly backed Syrian opposition groups, cables released by WikiLeaks show
The Washington Post
The State Department has secretly financed Syrian political opposition groups and related projects, including a satellite TV channel that beams anti-government programming into the country, according to previously undisclosed diplomatic cables.
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APR 15, 2011
Save VOA Broadcasting to China
The Foundry (blog)
The decision to cut Voice of America (VOA) Broadcasting to China has attracted a good deal of congressional attention, as well it should. While China has launched a worldwide public diplomacy and media offensive, the United States is looking at a greatly reduced international media presence if the projected cuts go through.
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APR 14, 2011
Teenage Journalist Portrays ‘Normal’ Libya
Voice of America
Journalist Atem, who wants to keep her identity obscure, writes of Libyan life without Moammar Gadhafi. Atem is 17 years old. Before the uprising began, she was finishing her last year in high school and acting very much her age.
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APR 13, 2011
British MPs oppose BBC World Service cuts
Reuters
Britain should abandon its plan to cut funding for the BBC World Service or at least ring-fence some parts of it, including BBC Arabic, in the light of the upheaval in the region, parliamentarians said on Wednesday.
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APR 13, 2011
BBC World Service cuts must be reversed, say MPs
Guardian
An influential cross-party committee of MPs has called for the cuts to the BBC's World Service to be reversed to protect its global reputation. The Commons foreign affairs select committee said the 16% budget cut imposed on the service as part of the government's comprehensive spending review had "long-term ramifications"...
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APR 12, 2011
Uganda’s President to talk to Egyptians in Tahrir Square
Bikya Masr
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni spoke on the phone with Mustafa El Gendi, assistant chief of the Al Wafd Party, member of the People’s Parliament and coordinator of the Public Diplomacy delegation’s visit. El Gendi visited Uganda a few days ago and met with Museveni to discuss the Nile water.
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APR 12, 2011
Obama Circumvents State Department, Supports Plan to Give BBG $10 Million
The Heritage Foundation (Blog)
The Broadcasting Board of Governors will receive $10 million under the compromise spending deal reached last week. President Obama effectively sided with the BBG over his own State Department in a funding dispute involving Internet circumvention work.
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APR 11, 2011
In sixth year, Edward R. Murrow Forum brings prominent journalism issues to the forefront
Tufts Daily
When CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric addresses Tufts students and community members this afternoon as part of the sixth annual Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism, she will be joining a canon of prominent journalists who have been invited to the Hill to carry on the excitement for journalism to which the forum's namesake devoted himself.
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