Former USAGM CEO Paid $1 Million to Investigate Staff, Documents Show

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Former USAGM CEO Paid $1 Million to Investigate Staff, Documents Show

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Agency for Global Media has released financial documents showing the agency’s Trump-appointed CEO paid an outside law firm more than $1 million for work that included investigating its own staff. In a statement Friday, USAGM said it has proactively released the first set of contracts and decision-making documents and would add […]

Trump-Appointed Head of Global News Agency Won’t Extend Visas for Foreign Journalists

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Trump-Appointed Head of Global News Agency Won’t Extend Visas for Foreign Journalists

  “It is appalling that the VOA’s new boss could be so reckless about the safety of journalists,” said PEN America. Dozens of foreign journalists are expected to be sent back to their home countries from the U.S. following a decision on Thursday by the newly appointed head of the federal government’s global news agency to not […]