Employees of Voice of America have been placed on administrative leave following an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump, reports ABC News and the White House. On March 14, Trump ...

Voice of America director Michael Abramowitz wrote in a LinkedIn post that “virtually” his entire staff of 1,300 journalists, producers, and assistants had been put on administrative leave ...

More than 1,300 Voice of America employees were placed on leave on March 15 and funding for two US news services that broadcast to authoritarian regimes was terminated, one day after President ...

The errors in the layoff notices could have derailed President Trump’s effort to dismantle the news organization. The ...

Widespread layoffs took place Friday at VOA and its parent agency, the US Agency for Global Media, or USAGM for short, which has led America’s efforts to broadcast information a ...

Chinese state media has expanded its reach from Indonesia to Nigeria after President Trump’s March order to dismantle U.S.

Most of the staff of Voice of America, the federally funded news network, were put on administrative leave by the Trump administration in March. By Minho Kim and Chris Cameron Reporting from ...

Majority of staff axed at Voice of America. Some affected employees worked for the Persian- language service and were called back to work just last week in light of the Middle East conflict.

Voice of America Rehires Persian-Language Staff After Iran Strike. Employees of Voice of America’s Persian-language, who were on administrative leave, were recalled by The U.S. Agency for Global ...

Voice of America to cut nearly all staff under Trump ... that encompasses the international broadcasters with 81 people after mid-August — a sliver of the 1,300 she first put on paid leave ...