Because of various threats against the BBG Watch website, BBGWatch.com, I have added their stories to TedLipien.com. Free Media Online, a media freedom NGO which I run, sponsors BBG Watch. The independent BBG Watch website is edited by former and current BBG employees and other media freedom and human rights volunteers.

Copies of samizdat are secretly passed among employees of the Prague-based Radio Free Europe – Radio Liberty who see themselves as victims of discrimination by the management of the American-run and publicly funded station. Alsou Taheri is the pseudonym of a journalist working at RFE/RL in Prague. Here are some highlights from the article, ‘Prague [...]

Almost all of the most popular posts on the BBGWatch.com website in the four months since its launch in September 2011 dealt with some aspect of mismanagement and waste at the Broadcasting Board of Governors. The site has had over 100,000 hits. BBG Watch is an independent website run by former and current BBG employees. [...]

The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees are both annoyed and amused by the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) Director Richard Lobo’s memo in which he justifies bonuses paid to BBG executives as being in line with awards received by executives employed by other federal agencies. As some employees point out, there is a problem with [...]

The American Federation of Government Employees Local 1812 (AFGE Local 1812) published a report on the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Victor Ashe’s recent visit to the Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station in Greenville, North Carolina, praising him for reaching out to BBG employees and openly discussing their concerns. It is highly unusual for [...]