Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

RFE/RL has an audience of 23.3 million people in 28 languages in 21 countries, including Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. RFE/RL journalists provide what many people cannot get locally—uncensored local and regional news, responsible discussion, and open debate. Headquartered in Prague with 19 bureaus across its broadcast region, RFE/RL’s proximity to its audiences facilitates audience engagement, real-time coverage and production of unique, relevant, and locally-oriented programming. RFE/RL is funded through, and operates under, a grant agreement with the BBG.

In March, Vice President of Finance John Giambalvo and Editor-in-Chief for Programming Nenad Pejic were appointed Interim Managers of RFE/RL following the resignation of RFE/RL President Kevin Klose. In a year when political turbulence, terrorism and popular demands for reform dominated headlines, RFE/RL’s surrogate media services brought the values of independent journalism to millions. RFE/RL offers its audiences the rich, immediate, and interactive content they seek, using the latest digital technologies and trusted broadcast radio to reach people in some of the most closed and also some of the least developed countries on earth.


Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

RFE/RL has an audience of 23.3 million people in 28 languages in 21 countries, including Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. RFE/RL journalists provide what many people cannot get locally—uncensored local and regional news, responsible discussion, and open debate. Headquartered in Prague with 19 bureaus across its broadcast region, RFE/RL’s proximity to its audiences facilitates audience engagement, real-time coverage and production of unique, relevant, and locally-oriented programming. RFE/RL is funded through, and operates under, a grant agreement with the BBG.

In March, Vice President of Finance John Giambalvo and Editor-in-Chief for Programming Nenad Pejic were appointed Interim Managers of RFE/RL following the resignation of RFE/RL President Kevin Klose. In a year when political turbulence, terrorism and popular demands for reform dominated headlines, RFE/RL’s surrogate media services brought the values of independent journalism to millions. RFE/RL offers its audiences the rich, immediate, and interactive content they seek, using the latest digital technologies and trusted broadcast radio to reach people in some of the most closed and also some of the least developed countries on earth.

Budget

$95.3 million in FY 2014

Budget

$95.3 million in FY 2014

Employees

503 employees

Employees

503 employees

Languages

28

Languages

28

Mobile Apps

available in 25 versions Apple iOS and Android

Mobile Apps

available in 25 versions Apple iOS and Android

Online

rferl.org
@rferl

Online

rferl.org
@rferl

Balkans

Visits to the RFE/RL Balkan Service’s website more than doubled in February, as a result of the coverage of violent protests in Bosnia and Kosovo. RFE/RL also served as a vital source for news about the floods that ravaged Bosnia and Serbia in May, with daily stories about the situation in the flood zone along with videos and photo galleries of the devastation.

Azerbaijan

On July 15, the Azerbaijani Service posted a joint investigation with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) into alleged links between two of President Ilham Aliyev’s daughters and two of Azerbaijan’s largest mobile phone providers, indicating that members of the president’s family may control nearly three-quarters of the country’s mobile market.

Russia

In January, RFE/RL’s Russian service collaborated with its Central Newsroom to publish a dramatic multimedia project, “Sochi 2014: Outside the Arena” that looked at the environmental, social and human costs associated with the Sochi Winter Games.

Moldova

In June, RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service partnered with public Radio Moldova to debut a new, monthly Russian-language roundtable show to counter Russian propaganda. Another program, The Weekend With Europa Libera, is also being broadcast twice each week by Moldovan Public Radio, once in Romanian, once in Russian. In November, RFE/RL launched a daily, 10-minute television program, Clear and Simple
(Pur si Simplu), in Romanian and in Russian.

Georgia

In April, the Georgian Service (Radio Tavisupleba) expanded its programming from eight to 18 hours daily on longtime FM affiliate Radio Green Wave. Content for the expanded stream is produced by RFE/RL’s Georgian, Russian, Armenian, and Azerbaijani Services, as well as VOA’s Georgian, Special English and Music Mix services.

Pakistan

A Radio Mashaal report convinced Pakistani authorities to begin repairs in January on a vital, but long-disused irrigation canal in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province along the border with South Waziristan. In September, Radio Mashaal reporting on the closure of schools in the Pakistani tribal areas spurred government action to reopen them and allow tens of thousands of children to continue their studies.

Iran

Radio Farda sent a correspondent to Vienna in February, May and November to provide exclusive, live, first-hand, and around-the-clock Persian-language coverage for its audience in Iran of the nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 countries.

Broadcasting in 21 Countries

Broadcasting in 21 Countries

Eurasia

Armenian azatutyun.am
Avar Аварradioerkenli.com
Azerbaijani Azərbaycanca azadliq.org
Bashkir azatliq.org
Belarusian Беларуская svaboda.org
Chechen Нохчийн radiomarsho.com
Circassian Адыгэ khutynygharadio.com
Crimean Tatar ktat.krymr.com
Georgian ქართული radiotavisupleba.ge
Russian Русский
– Россия svoboda.org
– Казахстан rus.azattyq.org
– Армения rus.azatutyun.am
– Азербайджан radioazadlyg.org
– Грузия ekhokavkaza.com
– Киргизия rus.azattyk.org
– Таджикистан rus.ozodi.org
– Крым ru.krymr.com
– Евразия www.currenttime.tv
Tatar Татар azatliq.org
Ukrainian
- Українська radiosvoboda.org
– Крым ua.krymr.com

 

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Background Image Captions

  1. RFE/RL Armenian Service correspondent Hovannes Movsisian covering clashes between nationalist opposition protesters and police in the Armenian capital of Yerevan, November, 2014. RFE/RL
  2. Sarajevo-based RFE/RL photographer Midhat Poturovic, covering the June 2014 floods in Bosnia.  Radio Slobodna Evropa
  3. Moldovan Service journalist Liliana Barbarosie, in RFE/RL’s Chisinau Bureau. RFE/RL
  4. Radio Mashaal correspondent Umar Daraz Wazir, reporting on the plight of displaced persons in the Pakistani tribal region from the Ghuriwala food distribution point, Bannu District, Pakistan October, 2014. RFE/RL

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