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BREAKING NEWS: Trump nominates Sarah Rogers, the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, to lead USAGM after a judge ordered the government to provide a succession plan for the agency. | Explore the timeline.

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

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.

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Headlines

Screenshot of Sarah Rogers, the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Trump taps Kari Lake replacement to oversee VOA parent after court rebuke

Sarah Rogers, the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, will need Senate confirmation to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, while Trump has tapped Michael Rigas as acting CEO. (The Washington Post | March 12, 2026)

Trump nominates State Department official to lead Voice of America’s parent agency (The Wrap - March 12, 2026)
DOJ says Voice of America parent has no succession plan after Kari Lake ruling (The Wrap - March 11, 2026)
As Kari Lake sought to shutter Voice of America, parent agency rebuffed auditors (The New York Times - March 9, 2026)
US Judge says Kari Lake broke law in overseeing Voice of America (NPR - March 8, 2026)
Judge rules Kari Lake unlawfully ran US media agency, voiding layoffs (The Washington Post - March 7, 2026)
Judge voids mass layoffs at Voice of America (The New York Times - March 7, 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.”

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