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Shawn Powers, Acting Chief Strategy Officer of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM, formerly BBG), describes the agency's audience reach and impact evaluation methodology.
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The BBG has more than rebranded as USAGM; its audience measurement methodology has changed. A longtime audience research analyst questions some of the resulting numbers.
The Trump administration’s leading candidate to head the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a position that with recent changes would give the appointee unilateral power over the United States’ government messaging abroad reaching millions, is a conservative documentarian with ties to White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation.
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The Voice of America was never intended to do investigative reporting, nor should it.