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BREAKING NEWS: VOA journalists file new lawsuit to protect agency’s journalism. | Read the statement.

Voice of America silenced for the first time in 83 years

Since President Donald Trump issued his March 14, 2025, executive order that effectively began dismantling the Voice of America, the federally-funded broadcaster has lost almost all of its more than 360 million weekly global audience. Before the order, VOA produced nearly 2,400 hours of content each week across radio, television and digital — in 49 languages. Now, a skeleton crew is producing minimal content in just six languages. The quantity and quality of the content is a shadow of what it was. Nearly all VOA journalists have either been fired or placed on administrative leave. Learn more

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 appearing on VOA's Persian broadcast.

Voice of America staffers sue, alleging Kari Lake put on propaganda

The plaintiffs contend Lake has trampled the network's editorial independence in violation of federal law and First Amendment principles. (NPR | March 23, 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)