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BREAKING NEWS: Federal judge rules attempt to bring VOA and USAGM to the “statutory minimum” was unlawful, orders employees on administrative leave back to work. | Explore the timeline.

Update from Widakuswara v. Lake

Plaintiffs eager to rebuild VOA following judge’s return-to-work order

This is a monumental decision, and we are deeply grateful. We are eager to begin repairing the damage Kari Lake has inflicted on our agency and our colleagues, to return to our congressional mandate, and to rebuild the trust of the global audience we have been unable to serve for the past year. We know the road to restoring VOA’s operations and reputation will be long and difficult. We hope the American people will continue to support our mission to produce journalism, not propaganda.

— Patsy Widakuswara, Jessica Jerreat and Kate Neeper (March 17, 2026)

Global reach

Prior to March 2025, VOA was reaching over 360 million people around the world each week in more than 100 countries. Explore a selection of the regions where the loss of VOA has been felt.

VOA’s English newsroom upheld editorial standards for the global news agency

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Since last March, nearly all of the Central Newsroom’s journalists have been fired or placed on administrative leave, eliminating all coverage in English and crippling Voice of America’s ability to fulfill the VOA Charter. Read the story.

Regional highlights

Photo of a VOA journalist reporting from outside of a hospital.

Latin America • VOA spent decades building an enviable media network in Latin America. It was silenced overnight
Photo of a VOA journalist wearing a helmet and flak jacket while reporting.

Africa • China and Russia capitalize on VOA's exit from Africa

Explore more regions.

Featured stories

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Press Freedom

In authoritarian countries, the silencing of VOA is deafening

President Trump’s executive order succeeded in doing what authoritarian leaders had tried to do for decades: silence VOA.

Measuring the loss of VOA around the world

A look at how VOA’s output has declined since the Trump administration shut down most of the organization.

Fact Check

Lake’s attack on Voice of America

Read an annotated fact check of Kari Lake’s prepared remarks to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Voices

Headlines

Screenshot of Kari Lake holding up a photo of VOA's Central Newsroom during her congressional testimony.

How Kari Lake’s dismantling of Voice of America unraveled in court

A judge handed VOA employees a long-awaited victory, calling over a thousand back from administrative leave. Now, they aim to rebuild trust and make up for lost time. (The Washington Post | March 19, 2026)

Editorials and analysis

As US bombs Iran, a judge rules on the battle for hearts and minds (Columbia Journalism Review)China is expanding its state-run propaganda with 16 new Tibetan-language radio programmes (Reporters Without Borders (RSF))

“To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.”

Portrait of Edward R. Murrow.

Edward R. Murrow Director of the U.S. Information Agency (1961-1964)