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Voice of America, ProPublica among National Press Club Journalism Awards winners

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Wednesday, December 8, 2021

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Voice of America won a National Press Club Journalism Award for coverage of the Trump administration's attempts to redirect and censor VOA coverage.

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  • WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Voice of America won a National Press Club Journalism Award for coverage of the Trump administration's attempts to redirect and censor VOA coverage.
  • ProPublica won awards for consumer news and political news.
  • Those news outlets were just two among a host of winners for outstanding coverage of events in 2020.
  • VOA won the Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism-broadcast award for its coverage of the pressure on itself - a difficult assignment.

Press Leaders Decry Assault on Global Media Agency

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Thursday, October 29, 2020

Michael Pack, the chief of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VoA, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and other news organizations, rescinded on Monday a rule that established a firewall between the agency's journalists and its managementa separation that is standard practice in the media.

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  • Michael Pack, the chief of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VoA, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and other news organizations, rescinded on Monday a rule that established a firewall between the agency's journalists and its managementa separation that is standard practice in the media.
  • "The attack on the U.S. Agency for Global Media tarnishes news outlets that have for many years independently published news without fear or favor," said Angela Greiling Keane, president of the National Press Club Journalism Institute, the Club's non-profit affiliate.
  • The U.S. Agency for Global Media's bipartisan board of directors had approved the rule in June.
  • PRESS CONTACT: Lindsay Underwood for the National Press Club; [email protected] , (202) 662-7561
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