1 Voice of America Parent Terminates over 600 more Staff In Likely

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WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - The parent company of Voice of America stated on Friday it had actually provided termination notifications to over 639 more staff, completing an 85% decrease in workers because March and effectively spelling completion of a broadcasting network founded to counter Nazi propaganda.
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Kari Lake, senior advisor to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, stated the personnel reduction meant 1,400 positions had actually been gotten rid of as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's agenda to cut staffing at the agency to a statutory minimum.

"Reduction in Force Termination Notices were sent out to 639 staff members at USAGM and Voice of America, part of a long-overdue effort to dismantle a bloated, unaccountable administration," Lake said in a statement.

She stated the firm had actually been "riddled with dysfunction, predisposition, and waste."

Lake stated the move indicated USAGM now operated near its statutory minimum of 81 workers. She said 250 would remain throughout USAGM, Voice of America, and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, which transmits news into communist-run Cuba. She said none of OCB's 33 employees had actually been ended.

The move likely marks an end to VOA, which was founded in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda, run in almost 50 languages and reached 360 million individuals a week, numerous living under authoritarian regimes.

In May, nearly 600 VOA contractors were dismissed.

Some Republicans have actually implicated VOA and other publicly funded media outlets of being prejudiced versus conservatives, and called for them to be shuttered as part of broader efforts to diminish the federal government.

Another USAGM station, Radio Free Asia, which has already been reduced to skeleton staffing, stated in a staff email on Friday that it was executing additional furloughs in its personnels, ordinance, journalist security, and research, training & assessment teams.

Various lawsuit remain in train versus the USAGM cuts. (Reporting by David Brunnstrom, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)