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The United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), known until 2018 as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), is an independent agency of the United States government that broadcasts news and information.^[1]

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Alberto J. Mora

Alberto José Mora (born April 11, 1952) is a former General Counsel of the Navy.

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Alhurra

Alhurra (الحرة,The pronunciation differs depending on the variety of Arabic, for example,. "the Free One") is a U.S. government-owned Arabic-language satellite TV channel that broadcasts news and current affairs programming to audiences in the Middle East and North Africa. U.S. Agency for Global Media and Alhurra are United States government propaganda organizations.

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Amanda Bennett

Amanda Bennett (born July 9, 1952) is an American journalist and author.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Bette Bao Lord

Bette Bao Lord (Chinese: 包柏漪, Pinyin: Bāo Bóyì; born November 3, 1938) is a Chinese-born American writer and civic activist for human rights and democracy.

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Boko Haram

Boko Haram, officially known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād (lit), is an Islamist jihadist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, which is also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali.

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Carl Spielvogel

Carl Spielvogel (December 27, 1928 – April 21, 2021) was an American marketing executive and diplomat.

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Cheryl Halpern

Cheryl Feldman Halpern was the chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) from 2005 to 2007.

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Current Time TV

Current Time TV is a Russian-language television channel with editorial office in Prague, created by the US organisations Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America. U.S. Agency for Global Media and Current Time TV are democracy promotion and public broadcasting in the United States.

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Dana Perino

Dana Marie Perino (born May 9, 1972) is an American political commentator and author who was the 26th White House Press Secretary, under President George W. Bush from September 14, 2007, to January 20, 2009.

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David W. Burke

David Warren Burke (April 3, 1936 – April 18, 2014) was an American news executive and political administrator.

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Ex officio member

An ex officio member is a member of a body (notably a board, committee, or council) who is part of it by virtue of holding another office.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Federal Register

The Federal Register (FR or sometimes Fed. Reg.) is the official journal of the federal government of the United States that contains government agency rules, proposed rules, and public notices.

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Fiscal year

A fiscal year (also known as a financial year, or sometimes budget year) is used in government accounting, which varies between countries, and for budget purposes.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy is an American news publication founded in 1970 focused on global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy.

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Foreign policy of the United States

The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States of America, including all the bureaus and offices in the United States Department of State, as mentioned in the Foreign Policy Agenda of the Department of State, are "to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community".

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Gizmodo

Gizmodo is a design, technology, science, and science fiction website.

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Government Accountability Office

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent, nonpartisan government agency within the legislative branch that provides auditing, evaluative, and investigative services for the United States Congress.

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Government Accountability Project

The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a nonprofit whistleblower protection and advocacy organization in the United States.

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Independent agencies of the United States government

In the United States government, independent agencies are agencies that exist outside the federal executive departments (those headed by a Cabinet secretary) and the Executive Office of the President.

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Inspector General of the Department of State

The inspector general of the Department of State heads the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of State and is responsible for detecting and investigating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the United States Department of State.

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International Broadcasting Act

Signed in law in 1994 by U.S. President Bill Clinton, this act was meant to streamline the U.S. international broadcasting and provide a cost-effective way to continue Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, Voice of America, and Radio Marti.

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Islamic State

The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group and an unrecognised quasi-state.

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Jeff Shell

Jeff Shell is an American media executive who served as the CEO for NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast, from 2019 to 2023.

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Jen Psaki

Jennifer Rene Psaki (born December 1, 1978) is an American television political analyst and former government official.

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Jim DeMint

James Warren DeMint (born September 2, 1951) is an American businessman, author, and retired politician who served as a United States Senator from South Carolina and as president of The Heritage Foundation.

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Joe Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.

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Kelu Chao

Kelu Chao is a Taiwanese American journalist.

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Kenneth Tomlinson

Kenneth Y. Tomlinson (August 3, 1944 – May 1, 2014) was an editor at Reader's Digest and American government official.

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Marc B. Nathanson

Marc B. Nathanson (born May 12, 1945) is an American entrepreneur who served as the United States ambassador to Norway from 2022 to 2024.

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McGuireWoods

McGuireWoods LLP is a US-based international law firm.

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Michael Lynton

Michael Mark Lynton (born January 1, 1960) is a businessman and current chairman of Snap Inc.

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Michael P. Meehan

Michael P. Meehan was appointed to the Broadcasting Board of Governors by Barack Obama.

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Michael Pack

Michael L. Pack is an American documentary filmmaker who was CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) from June 2020 to January 2021.

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Middle East Broadcasting Networks

The Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN) is a U.S.-government-funded American Arabic-language non-profit media organization broadcasting news and information across the Middle East and North Africa region. U.S. Agency for Global Media and Middle East Broadcasting Networks are United States government propaganda organizations.

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Mitch McConnell

Addison Mitchell McConnell III (born February 20, 1942) is an American politician and retired attorney who has been serving as senate minority leader since 2021 and the senior United States senator from Kentucky since 1985, the longest serving senator in his state's history.

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Multisourcing

Multisourcing is the concept of working with multiple suppliers who are also competitors.

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The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (NDAA 2017) is a United States federal law specifying the budget and expenditures of the United States Department of Defense (DOD) for Fiscal Year 2017.

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Norm Pattiz

Norman Joel Pattiz (January 18, 1943 – December 4, 2022) was an American broadcasting entrepreneur who founded radio network Westwood One.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Open Technology Fund

The Open Technology Fund (OTF) is an American nonprofit corporation that aims to support global Internet freedom technologies.

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Radio Farda

Radio Farda (lit, Radio Farda) is the Iranian branch of the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) external broadcast service for providing "factual, objective and professional journalism" to its audiences.

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Radio Free Asia

Radio Free Asia (RFA) is an American government-funded non-profit corporation operating a news service that broadcasts radio programs and publishes online news, information, and commentary for its audiences in Asia. U.S. Agency for Global Media and radio Free Asia are democracy promotion and United States government propaganda organizations.

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an American government-funded international media organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analyses to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East. U.S. Agency for Global Media and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty are democracy promotion and United States government propaganda organizations.

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Radio jamming

Radio jamming is the deliberate blocking of or interference with wireless communications.

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Radio Sawa

Radio Sawa (راديو سوا) is a U.S. government-funded radio station broadcasting in the Arab world from March 23, 2002.

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Radio y Televisión Martí

Radio Televisión Martí is an American state-run radio and television international broadcaster based in Miami, Florida, financed by the federal government of the United States through the U.S. Agency for Global Media (formerly Broadcasting Board of Governors, BBG). U.S. Agency for Global Media and radio y Televisión Martí are United States government propaganda organizations.

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RT (TV network)

RT (formerly Russia Today or Rossiya Segodnya; Россия Сегодня) is a Russian state-controlled international news television network funded by the Russian government.

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Secretary of state

The title secretary of state or state's secretary is commonly used for senior or mid-level posts in governments around the world.

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Smith–Mundt Act

The U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (Public Law 80-402), popularly called the Smith–Mundt Act, was first introduced by Congressman Karl E. Mundt (R-SD) in January 1945 in the 79th Congress.

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Springer Nature

Springer Nature or the Springer Nature Group is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education.

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Susan McCue

Susan McCue was appointed to the Broadcasting Board of Governors on July 2, 2010, to a term expiring on August 13, 2011, and continued serving until May 22, 2014.

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Ted Kaufman

Edward Emmett Kaufman (born March 15, 1939) is a retired American politician and businessman who served as a United States senator from Delaware from 2009 to 2010.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New Republic

The New Republic is an American publisher focused on domestic politics, news, culture, and the arts, with ten magazines a year and a daily online platform.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Title 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations

CFR Title 22 – Foreign Relations is one of fifty titles comprising the United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), containing the principal set of rules and regulations issued by federal agencies regarding foreign relations.

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Tom C. Korologos

Tom Chris Korologos (April 6, 1933 – July 26, 2024) was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Belgium.

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Tom Coburn

Thomas Allen Coburn (March 14, 1948 – March 28, 2020) was an American politician and physician who served as a United States senator from Oklahoma from 2005 to 2015.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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United States Information Agency

The United States Information Agency (USIA) was a United States government agency devoted to the practice of public diplomacy which operated from 1953 to 1999. U.S. Agency for Global Media and United States Information Agency are United States government propaganda organizations.

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United States National Security Council

The United States National Security Council (NSC) is the principal forum used by the president of the United States for consideration of national security, military, and foreign policy matters.

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United States Office of Special Counsel

The United States Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is a permanent independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency whose basic legislative authority comes from four federal statutes: the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, the Hatch Act, and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA).

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United States Secretary of State

The United States secretary of state (SecState) is a member of the executive branch of the federal government and the head of the Department of State.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.

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United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations is a standing committee of the U.S. Senate charged with leading foreign-policy legislation and debate in the Senate.

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USA.gov

USA.gov is the official web portal of the United States federal government.

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USAspending.gov

is a database of spending by the United States federal government.

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Victor Ashe

Victor Henderson Ashe II (born January 1, 1945) is an American former diplomat and politician who served as United States Ambassador to Poland.

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Voice of America

Voice of America (VOA or VoA) is an international radio broadcasting state media agency owned by the United States of America. U.S. Agency for Global Media and Voice of America are democracy promotion and United States government propaganda organizations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Agency_for_Global_Media

Also known as Broadcasting Board of Governors, International Broadcasting Advisory Board, US Agency for Global Media, USAGM, United States Agency for Global Media.

, Secretary of state, Smith–Mundt Act, Springer Nature, Susan McCue, Ted Kaufman, The Guardian, The New Republic, The New York Times, Title 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Tom C. Korologos, Tom Coburn, Twitter, United States Information Agency, United States National Security Council, United States Office of Special Counsel, United States Secretary of State, United States Senate, United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, USA.gov, USAspending.gov, Victor Ashe, Voice of America, Walter Isaacson, Washington, D.C., Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, William Harlan Hale, World War II, 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, 2020 Hong Kong national security law.

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See also

Public broadcasting in the United States

United States government propaganda organizations

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