Voice of America
Voice of America
Budget
$201.6 million in FY 2014
Budget
$201.6 million in FY 2014
Employees
1,115 employees
Employees
1,115 employees
Mobile Apps
Mobile Apps
With the international community backing regional efforts to defeat al-Shabaab, more than half of Somalis each week get their news from VOA. The weekly VOA Somali television show Qubanaha (Variety) airs on Universal TV and Somali National Television with a mix of U.S., international, and regional news as well as reports from journalists inside Somalia.
VOA continues to distinguish itself as a go-to source of news on Boko Haram and the regional implications of its campaign of violence.
VOA reporters traveled to the hardest-hit regions of West Africa to tell the stories of Ebola victims and joined with BBC in a groundbreaking partnership sharing content on the outbreak.
When the Thai military suspended radio and TV broadcasts as part of its May coup, VOA Thai launched a daily, live 30-minute satellite radio-on-TV and webcast while ramping-up social media outreach on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
VOA’s Burmese Service chief Than Lwin Htun traveled to Myanmar’s capital Naypyitaw in November and scored four exclusive interviews that made headlines inside and outside the country. Lwin’s interview with President Thein Sein about constitutional reforms and ethnic issues ran on MRTV, SkyNet, and Myanmar National TV. Other interviews included the speaker of parliament, Thura Shwe Mann, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and the first-ever media interview with Burma’s Military Chief of Staff, Sr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing. Three weeks after Lwin asked the president about greater media access, the government in Naypyitaw announced the start of weekly press briefings.
VOA News ranks first among measured non-Chinese news apps, and its Mandarin-language social media
platforms inside China are helping build new audiences, 75 percent of which are below the age of 35. Those larger audiences got important news they couldn’t get from official Chinese media, including comprehensive coverage of the protests that rocked Hong Kong in September and October. In the first three weeks of the protests, VOA Chinese produced 102 videos on YouTube, that got more than 851,000 views.
Denied program placement on Russian media, VOA’s Russian Service employed a digital-first strategy to connect with audiences across desktop, mobile and social platforms. VOA provided the Russian Business Channel (RBC), a Moscow-based business television station that reaches 11 percent of adults every week, with daily financial reports from the New York Stock Exchange on the global economy and the effects of President Putin’s financial and foreign policies.
Throughout 2014, VOA dramatically increased its programming to Ukraine, doubling its audience with new television affiliates and reporting from both sides of the conflict now reaching more than 18% of adults weekly.
When violence between Venezuelan protestors and security forces killed more than 40 people, President Nicolas Maduro clamped down on reporting of the violence, blaming the United States for plotting a fascist coup. VOA broke through that censorship with balanced reporting from Washington and Caracas on leading networks in Colombia, Nicaragua, Argentina, Ecuador and Peru—all of which are seen inside Venezuela–-and with Internet censorship circumvention tools to thwart online suppression of the news. VOA coverage of the crisis surrounding unaccompanied minors from Central America crossing the southern U.S. border included reports from the White House and Capitol Hill, correspondent interviews with regional affiliates, and reports from the region.
When Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who survived a Taliban assassination attempt, was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, more than 300 news organizations sought an interview. She granted only seven—including VOA Urdu. The seven-minute interview, conducted immediately before she went onstage to accept the Peace Prize, was distributed across Pakistan, including to the state-owned PTV, the Pakistan Television Corporation, and to VOA’s worldwide audience. At the award ceremony in Oslo, she requested a song written and performed by VOA Deewa Service poet Sardar Ali. “Bibi Shereena” or “Adorable Lady” salutes the importance of women’s education.
Broadcasting in 100+ Countries
Broadcasting in 100+ Countries
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