Past Events
Ahead of World Press Freedom Day join the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), The George Washington University School of Media & Public Affairs and the Committee to Protect Journalists for a lunch conversation on challenges and new trends in international media freedom, access to information, and journalist safety.
Join the Wilson Center for a discussion with VOA Director Amanda Bennett on the role of government-funded media outlets.
Join CCLP for a discussion with Ambassador Alberto M. Fernandez, the president of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc. (MBN). In this role, he oversees MBN’s multimedia operations in the U.S. and across the Middle East, including its digital properties, Alhurra Television networks and Radio Sawa. You can read more about Ambassador Fernandez here.
A discussion on the Kremlin’s evolving disinformation toolkit and effective ways in which U.S. international media can counter fake news and offer fact-based alternatives to Moscow’s global propaganda.
Join RFE/RL and Open Society Foundation for a discussion on April 17, with Jeffrey B. Lilley, author of Have the Mountains Fallen? Two Journeys of Loss and Redemption in the Cold War.
Join CSIS and RFE/RL for a timely conversation with Venera Djumataeva, Director of RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service and CSIS' Jeffrey Mankoff on the current Kyrgyz government, and Kyrgyzstan's political future.
A growing number of women around the globe are jumping headfirst into politics. They are volunteering, organizing, rallying, participating and running for office to bring about what they see as much-needed change in an increasingly divisive world.
Fake news, information warfare, terrorist recruitment, Russian interference in U.S. elections - never have the challenges been greater facing the Public Diplomacy institutions of the U.S. government, charged with conducting "the war of ideas."
“This plan is a comprehensive roadmap for moving the Agency forward in the next five years, including significantly increasing our audience reach,” Lansing told the Board. “While we are an independent agency, we have chosen to align the plan with the Administration’s National Security Strategy, and it supports President Trump’s management priorities of effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability.”