VOA Media Watch: Drop Everything!

26 August 2008

Drop Everything!

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2 comments:

Wise Warren said...: CREDO just e-mailed me that
"Award winning journalist and host of 'Democracy Now' Amy Goodman was arrested by St. Paul police while covering a protest outside the Republican National Convention. Though clearly identified as press, Goodman was charged with 'obstruction of a legal process and interference with a "peace officer."' Two of her producers were arrested for 'suspicion of felony riot.'" Will VOA cover the arrests of journalists at the convention?; 03 September, 2008 01:22
Alex Belida said...: VOA has carried several reports on the protests outside the Republican convention, including at least one that referred to the journalist arrests:
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-09-03-voa5.cfm?rss=u.s.%20politics; 03 September, 2008 15:26

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VOA Media Watch

The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government. VOA broadcasts more than 1,000 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 125 million people. Programs are produced in 45 languages.

The VOA Media Watch, formerly called the VOA News Blog, discusses the editorial integrity and quality of VOA content and responds to inquiries, comments and complaints from the general public and others related to that content. The Media Watch thus serves as a public source of information, explanation and analysis regarding VOA's journalistic standards and practices. General media issues are also discussed.

Alex Belida is the chief writer for the VOA Media Watch. He has been in international broadcasting since 1971. He served as Managing Editor of VOA News from 2004 to 2007. Before that he was a correspondent in Europe and in Africa. He has also served as VOA’s Senior White House Correspondent and as Pentagon Correspondent. Before joining VOA, he worked for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in both New York and Munich. He has a BA from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., and a MS in Journalism from Columbia University in New York. He is a recipient of the prestigious Alumni Achievement Award from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. He currently serves as a Senior Advisor to the Director of VOA.