Kim Andrew Elliott
News about international broadcasting.
Retired VOA audience research/media news broadcaster.
Gradually migrating from eponymous account on X.
See also:
mediafreedomusa.bsky.social
swradiogram.bsky.social
- "To complement the existing BBC News Persian video and digital services, the radio programme will be available on mediumwave and shortwave across Iran to increase the population’s access to news and information." www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
- There will be more local news in the Safeway Weekly Flyer ...
- Well, then, maybe Sony can make shortwave radios again ... newatlas.com/home-enterta...
- Former RFE/RL CEO writes: "The United Kingdom, France, Germany, and other Western nations have international broadcasting services, but they fall well short of the 60-plus language services the United States offered." harriman.columbia.edu/pulling-the-...
- The actions of the Iranian regime are appropriately described as "malign behavior," but not by a reporter writing a news story. Was it the State Department official who said "malign behavior"? If so, use his entire sentence containing "malign behavior," in quotes. tinyurl.com/2bfho3r2
- (1/3) VOA Editorial: "The regime persecutes and tortures political opponents, denies free speech and press, profits corruptly from the Cuban people’s misery, and incites chaos by spreading communist ideology across the region. editorials.voa.gov/a/addressing...
- (2/3) "These actions constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. national security and foreign policy, requiring immediate response to protect American citizens and interests." Ibid.
- (3/3 ["These actions" are not so unusual, but have been taking place since Cuba's communist era began in 1959. The difference might be that the Trump Administration is positioning for military action against Cuba, with this VOA Editorial as part of that effort.]
- (4/3) "In his first term, President Trump implemented a robust policy toward Cuba, reversing the Obama Administration’s one-sided deal that eased restrictions without securing meaningful reforms for the Cuban people." Ibid. [VOA Editorials now swipe at previous administrations.]
- From the former director of the VOA Eurasia Division ... x.com/EBiberaj/sta...
- "joined BBC World Service Arabic Radio in 1965 ... [spent] 31 years at the BBC, as well as more than two decades at Al Jazeera .. one of the longest-serving news anchors in the world. He also authored the latter's motto: 'The opinion, and the other opinion.'" www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...
- "the White House’s disdain for public media has left the US government-funded broadcaster Voice of America on its knees. By reporting on societies concealed by censorship and isolation, the World Service can be a global beacon of trust." inews.co.uk/opinion/only...
- "Tully’s name was synonymous with India to a degree that didn’t happen with colleagues serving in other posts around the world. He was the BBC’s Delhi bureau chief from 1972 to 1993, and its South Asia correspondent for another year after that." www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
