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Kim Andrew Elliott

@kaedotcom.bsky.social
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News about international broadcasting. Retired VOA audience research/media news broadcaster. See also: swradiogram.bsky.social X.com/kaedotcom

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Save VOA @savevoa.bsky.social · 5h
🧵 That feeling when the government’s own watchdog validates what you’ve been saying all along: you cannot dismantle U.S. international broadcasting without a plan! (1 of 3)
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Shortwave Radiogram @swradiogram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"What can HERMES send that a basic voice radio can’t? Bloom: HERMES is a software stack—it’s a set of different programs that all work together in order to be able to send data over HF." spectrum.ieee.org/hermes-short...
spectrum.ieee.org
How Hermes Uses the Ionosphere to Link Remote Communities
It sends encrypted signals with no satellites or relay towers required
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Save VOA @savevoa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The administration has robbed itself of a trusted voice the world listens to,” said Patsy Widakuswara who sued the administration. Read @nytimes.com report here 👇
nytimes.com
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SWL @weltempfaenger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
kurzwellenradio.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/r... On #shortwave? You bet! But on which frequencies?
kurzwellenradio.wordpress.com
Radio Taiwan’s 2026 Double-Ten Live Transmission on October 10
Online coverage on Youtube on Oct 10 Every year on October 10, Radio Taiwan International’s Mandarin department runs a live transmission, covering the day’s celebrations in the morning …
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
America.gov is not up-to-date regarding VOA broadcasts to Africa.
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Kari Lake’s nomination to become the next United States (US) ambassador to Jamaica ... has been stalled in the Senate. ... Prior to her nomination as ambassador to Jamaica, she was chosen by Trump to lead an agency that oversees Voice of America and [RFE/RL]." jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news...
jamaica-gleaner.com
LAKE IN LIMBO
As Kari Lake’s nomination to become the next United States (US) ambassador to Jamaica faces uncertainty, one of her predecessors, Don Tapia, has raised concerns about whether she can be trusted to han...
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Save VOA @savevoa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The reduction in operations diminished USAGM’s capacity to fulfill its core statutory mission of informing, engaging, and connecting people worldwide in support of freedom and democracy.“
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The State Department's watchdog finds laws were broken when Kari Lake and Elon Musk silenced the Voice of America, ignoring reliable data and that their mistakes "severely diminished the nation’s ability" to counter disinformation and support democracy abroad. www.stateoig.gov/report/aud-a...
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America.gov *was* the the U.S. government's chief public diplomacy portal, available in multiple languages, launched by the State Department's Bureau of International Information Programs in January 2007. It has since been replaced by share.america.gov
america.gov
America.gov
Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Voice of America and the US Agency for Global Media: Maimed. VOA, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Radio Martí, and other US-funded broadcasters have faced mass layoffs, canceled programming, and repeated attempts to shut down their parent agency" www.mediapost.com/publications...
mediapost.com
Trump's Brand Graveyard
If you don't think Trump can destroy America, look at what happened to the brands that carried his own name.
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Darin Leong, the festival’s producer, traces it back to a moment from his own childhood — 4 years old, living in Thailand with an American father and Thai mother, listening to Voice of America radio" www.islandssounder.com/2026/09/22/i...
islandssounder.com
Imagine Music & Arts Festival: Room for grief, room for joy, no questions asked - Islands' Sounder
At Doe Bay, ancient ritual, radical kindness and collective catharsis turn a weekend gathering into a laboratory for personal and communal transformation — though not everyone who shows up needs, or w...
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Policy Act (H.R. 6877, S. 288) would direct the U.S. Agency for Global Media to establish Voice of America Mongolian-language programming for speakers in Mongolia, the People's Republic of China, and Russia" legis1.com/news/us-mong...
legis1.com
Congress Flags U.S.-Mongolia Policy Tensions | Legis1
Congressional Research Service warns of U.S.-Mongolia strategy tensions. Discover how Washington's Indo-Pacific policy impacts this critical third neighbor.
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Immediately following Trump’s second inauguration, he fired six of the seven members of the International Broadcasting Advisory Board, established by Congress in 2020 in response to Trump’s failed first-term efforts to politicize the USAGM." slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com
Trump’s White House Press Ban, Other Attacks on Free Speech Are Impeachable
The speech, press, and assembly protections of the First Amendment are central pillars of our constitutional order.
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Other survivors from the old brigade of news hunters ... include ... Soja Page [sic, probably Sonja Pace] and Scott Bob of the Voice of America" realnewsmagazine.net/mark-doyle-a...
realnewsmagazine.net
Mark Doyle: Africa loses another friend and quintessential journalist - Realnews Magazine
By Paul Ejime BRITISH journalist Mark Doyle is on record as one of the outstanding, but very few, “engendered species” of foreign correspondents who reported on and in Africa, its people, and conflict...
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"A review of maritime data by Voice of America found that the Majestic X and Tifani were moving from waters near South America towards Galveston, Texas." [VOA reviewed *what*? VOA has no English, so maybe VOA Persian, if the writer has Persian.] www.marineinsight.com/three-seized...
marineinsight.com
Three Seized Iranian Oil Tankers Carrying 6 Million Barrels Of Oil Head Towards U.S.
Marine Insight - The maritime industry guide.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By the end of this year BBC will switch off all its remaining local medium wave (AM) radio stations. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/artic...
bbc.com
Why BBC Local Radio's remaining Medium Wave services are closing
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"[Yakov] Smirnoff, a Soviet-born comedian who became popular in the U.S. in the 1980s, described to Rogan how he and his father would secretly listen to Voice of America, a U.S. government-funded international news broadcaster, late at night" www.wfmd.com/2026/09/24/r...
wfmd.com
Rogan warns of youth support for communism as comic Yakov Smirnoff recalls escape from USSR
Joe Rogan slammed young Americans' growing push toward communism during a powerful conversation with Yakov Smirnoff about escaping the Soviet Union.
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Voice of America deputy director Chris Wallace, USAGM acting CEO Michael Rigas and RFE/RL acting president/CEO Lisa Curtis are quoted in support of the effort to free the journalists, who have worked for VOA and RFE/RL. www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/474...
washingtonexaminer.com
Blossoming US-Azerbaijani relationship collides with fate of imprisoned journalists
The continued detention of VOA reporter Ulviyya Guliyeva and RFE/RL reporter Farid Mehralizada has led to outrage from the U.S.
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Save VOA @savevoa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump “has also sought to kneecap or muzzle government-supported media with track records of honest reporting,” including VOA.
slate.com
Trump’s White House Press Ban, Other Attacks on Free Speech Are Impeachable
The speech, press, and assembly protections of the First Amendment are central pillars of our constitutional order.
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DW Deutsche Welle @deutschewelle.dw.com · 28/09/2026
🌍 DW is bringing international perspectives to this year's b°future festival, hosted by the Bonn Institute. From reporting under authoritarian regimes to tackling online censorship, our journalists and experts will share insights from working with audiences around the world.
Graphic showing the DW logo and the b’future festival logo separated by a large black “X” on a yellow background, indicating a collaboration or partnership between the two organizations.
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
swradiogram.bsky.social Results from the 2300-2330 UTC broadcast, 9455 kHz from WRMI Florida, received via SDR in Alberta.
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Gulchehra Hoja ... is a Uyghur-American journalist, who worked for Radio Free Asia for 25 years. Xi Jinping, the Chinese dictator, is in America this week. Gulchehra hopes that we will spare a thought for the Uyghurs." www.thenextmove.org/p/a-uyghur-f...
thenextmove.org
A Uyghur Family
Brave people under persecution by the Chinese government.
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The verbal altercation bordered on physical violence, as a Chinese official shoved off the hands of a White House aide seeking to move him into the appropriate position and started shouting at Secret Service agents" www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-h...
washingtonexaminer.com
Press corps chaos spills over during Chinese state visit
Behind the glamor of red carpets, military bands, and a state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping, the tension between press freedoms puncuated.
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"What became fascinating about Trump TV, in my 24 hours of nearly nonstop watching, was that it not only lacks the polish of news professionals ... but that it is also missing the pageantry of an authoritarian state-run news network." www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
washingtonpost.com
Column | I watched 24 hours of Trump TV. Buckle up.
What does the TV president look like without press corps footage?
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In news of domestic dissemination ... www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
cbsnews.com
New Trump-focused "Love Me" ad campaign paid for by taxpayers hits airwaves
Ads promoting President Trump and paid for by American taxpayers are now airing on network and national cable.
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The bill would authorize at least $10 million per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2032 to increase Ukrainian, Balkan, Russian, and Tatar-language programming through Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America." www.quiverquant.com/news/Represe...
quiverquant.com
Representative James R. Walkinshaw introduces H.R. 10473: Justice for Ukrainian Children Act | Stock News
We have received text from H.R. 10473: Justice for Ukrainian Children Act. This bill was received on
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Reza Valizadeh, 49, is a dual Iranian-American citizen and former journalist for Radio Farda, the Persian language news service housed under the U.S. Agency for Global Media. He ... is serving a 10-year prison sentence for “collaborating” with the U.S." thehill.com/policy/inter...
thehill.com
Bipartisan senators raised US journalist jailed in Iran ahead of Trump team meeting with Iranian delegation at UN
A bipartisan group of senators sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging action to secure the release of an American journalist unjustly imprisoned in Iran. The letter was sent one day…
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Distinguished guests will include the Acting CEO for the U.S. Agency for Global Media Michael Rigas." [Odd that the press release did not mention Rigas's main and permanent position: Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources] ambwashingtondc.esteri.it/en/news/dall...
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“ART AND LIFE IN IMPERIAL ROME. TRAJAN AND HIS TIMES” – EMBASSY OF ITALY IN WASHINGTON
Contemporary architecture and ancient art: this is the pairing chosen by the Embassy of Italy in Washington to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence. The exhibiti...
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"In foreign policy, Trump has seemed almost determined to disregard every lesson in Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, published in 1936." pressinsider.com/insight/twen...
pressinsider.com
Twenty months into Trump’s second term, the US faces a credibility test
Donald Trump’s UN speech, Iran policy, NATO tensions, strained ties with Canada and India raise questions about America’s global credibility.
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The new space requirement is a significant downsize from than the 350,000 square feet USAGM inked in 2024 at the EastBanc-owned 1875 Pennsylvania Ave. NW" www.bizjournals.com/washington/n...
bizjournals.com
Voice of America parent agency seeks new D.C. headquarters - Washington Business Journal
The agency that oversees Voice of America is back in the market for a new D.C. headquarters.
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SWL @weltempfaenger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
kurzwellenradio.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/r...
kurzwellenradio.wordpress.com
“Red Radiowaves never Fade”: War Preparedness Communications Museum opens in Sichuan
According to a Sichuan Daily report on September 22, the museum is the first of its kind in China. Its location is former Sichuan International Radio Station (四川国际电台) in Meishan, Sichuan Province. …
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The launch comes shortly after Trump announced he was banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House 'effective immediately' on Friday, Sept. 18. He also warned that further purges of media outlets he decried as “fake news” would follow." people.com/donald-trump...
people.com
Donald Trump Launches ‘Trump TV’ 3 Days After Banning Multiple News Outlets from the White House
Donald Trump has launched Trump TV days after he announced he was banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. The nation’s major TV news organizations announced a boycott of pool duties on ...
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DW Deutsche Welle @deutschewelle.dw.com · 22/09/2026
DW stands in solidarity with CNN, Politico and MS NOW, which have been denied access to the White House. Independent journalism requires free and equal access to public institutions. Restricting media access based on reporting sends a troubling signal for press freedom.
Empty White House press briefing room with rows of seats, a podium, and a U.S. flag. Overlaid text reads: “DW stands in solidarity with media outlets barred from the White House.”
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21/09/2026
There are roughly 35 journalists in the first cohort of the Freedom Media Innovation Lab, a program launched this year by American University’s Kogod School of Business to help former VOA staffers build sustainable media ventures of their own.
washingtonpost.com
After losing their Voice of America jobs, journalists pitch their second acts
American University set up a program to help VOA staffers. Now they’re set on becoming entrepreneurs.
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Save VOA @savevoa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“It’s hard to overstate the impact on individuals,” said VOA director Michael Abramowitz, who helped set up the program. “These are people who worked for the government for years and they were dumped out into a job market that frankly is just terrible.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
washingtonpost.com
After losing their Voice of America jobs, journalists pitch their second acts
American University set up a program to help VOA staffers. Now they’re set on becoming entrepreneurs.
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Save VOA @savevoa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Balkans are back in Washington’s spotlight, but VOA’s Balkan services have been silent since March 2025. The region needs independent coverage of elections, corruption, and foreign interference. Tell your representative to restore the services. #SaveVOA #SerbianService
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Peter Max has died. The US Information Agency (then the parent agency of VOA) commissioned him in 1970 to design a recruiting poster. Decades later I found and purchased a signed copy and donated it to the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting in Ohio. apnews.com/article/peter-max-...
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
LRT: Lithuania CT: Czech Republic RTVE: Spain
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“For whatever reason, the land at Vint Hill is what’s known as a ‘natural receiver,’ meaning it can pick up shortwave radio signals from across the globe.“ wtop.com/matt-about-t...
wtop.com
How this small Virginia farm town became a massive part of the World War II D-Day invasion – WTOP News
The land on which a Fauquier County winery in Virginia stands now used to be a top-secret military installation outside of D.C.
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NewsLab @thenewslab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
NYT - President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...
nytimes.com
How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech (Gift Article)
President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
swradiogram.bsky.social Results from the 2300-2330 UTC broadcast, 9455 kHz from WRMI Florida, received via SDR in Alberta. Text and images (MFSK32 and MFKS64) from shortwave broadcast transmitters usually used for voice of music.
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"fulfill its legally mandated duty"
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Recollections of when I went live in the VOA News Now studio on September 11, 2001 ... swradiogram.net/post/8274119...
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Shortwave Radiogram, 10-17 September 2026 (program 466): I was a footnote to 9/11 journalism
There is, understandably, much media attention to the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I had a small journalistic role on that day.  My editor and boss at the Voice of America entered....
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Recollections of when I went live in the VOA News Now studio on September 11, 2001 ... swradiogram.net/post/8274119...
swradiogram.net
Shortwave Radiogram, 10-17 September 2026 (program 466): I was a footnote to 9/11 journalism
There is, understandably, much media attention to the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I had a small journalistic role on that day.  My editor and boss at the Voice of America entered....
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Launched in partnership with Radio For Peace International (RFPI), this shortwave service allows the Iranian population to access reliable information" rsf.org/en/rsf-radio...
rsf.org
RSF radio frequency jammed in Iran, another attack on the right to inform
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the jamming of the radio frequency 15.5 MHz, which is used to broadcast independent news content in Persian to Iran. Launched in partnership with Radio For Pea...
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"In ... Project 2025, the Trump Administration put into action a strategy to overhaul public media in the United States. This plan ... focused on two key agencies: the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)." fullertonobserver.com/2026/09/07/t...
fullertonobserver.com
The Future of Public Media: Funding Cuts and Challenges in the Wake of Project 2025 - Fullerton Observer
Since the CPB has ceased operations, the most direct way to support public broadcasting now is to donate directly to NPR, PBS, or an individual local station.
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has appointed Haruna Ibrahim Kakangi as the editor of BBC Hausa Service on a one-year attachment, following two rounds of interviews." [VOA Hausa, with one of VOA's largest audiences, has been closed since March 2025.] dailytrust.com/bbc-hausa-ge...
dailytrust.com
BBC Hausa gets new editor
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has appointed Haruna Ibrahim Kakangi as the editor of BBC Hausa Service on a one-year attachment, following two...
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
BBC World Service now on New Hampshire Public Radio HD3 in five locations. www.nhpr.org/inside-nhpr/...
nhpr.org
NHPR adds Planet Money, How I Built This to weekend lineup & BBC 24/7 live stream
Starting Saturday, Sept. 5, NHPR is updating our lineup to bring you fresh shows and expanded digital listening options.
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/star...
niemanlab.org
Stars and Stripes shows how government‑funded journalism can work — if it’s free to report the truth
"Credibility comes from readers believing that when something goes wrong, somebody will tell them."
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Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"the Trump administration has also sought to eliminate or drastically reduce U.S. global broadcasting, which has long been an additional way in which the United States promotes democratic values abroad." carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
carnegieendowment.org
America Walks Away from Global Democracy
By abandoning past U.S. pro-democracy policies and adopting several lines of pro-autocratic action, the Trump administration has fundamentally repositioned the United States vis-à-vis democracy in the...
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