Employees of Voice of America have been placed on administrative leave following an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump, reports ABC News and the White House. On March 14, Trump ...

Voice of America director Michael Abramowitz wrote in a LinkedIn post that “virtually” his entire staff of 1,300 journalists, producers, and assistants had been put on administrative leave ...

More than 1,300 Voice of America employees were placed on leave on March 15 and funding for two US news services that broadcast to authoritarian regimes was terminated, one day after President ...

Widespread layoffs took place Friday at VOA and its parent agency, the US Agency for Global Media, or USAGM for short, which has led America’s efforts to broadcast information a ...

The errors in the layoff notices could have derailed President Trump’s effort to dismantle the news organization. The ...

Most of the staff of Voice of America, the federally funded news network, were put on administrative leave by the Trump administration in March. By Minho Kim and Chris Cameron Reporting from ...

Majority of staff axed at Voice of America. Some affected employees worked for the Persian- language service and were called back to work just last week in light of the Middle East conflict.

Voice of America to cut nearly all staff under Trump ... that encompasses the international broadcasters with 81 people after mid-August — a sliver of the 1,300 she first put on paid leave ...

Michael Abramowitz, Voice of America's director, said nearly his entire staff of 1,300 journalists, producers and assistants had been put on administrative leave, crippling a media broadcaster ...