public diplomacy Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/tag/public-diplomacy/ Cold War Radio History Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:07:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-CWRM-Mic2022-32x32.jpg public diplomacy Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/tag/public-diplomacy/ 32 32 April 22, 1954: Howard Fast Accepts the Stalin Peace Prize in New York https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/april-22-1954-howard-fast-accepts-the-stalin-peace-prize-in-new-york/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/april-22-1954-howard-fast-accepts-the-stalin-peace-prize-in-new-york/#respond Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:05:17 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=25371 by Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum April 22 is not a date usually remembered in the history of the Voice of America (VOA). Yet it deserves to be. On this day in 1954, at the Hotel McAlpin in New York, Howard Fast — a former chief news writer and editor for Voice of […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/april-22-1954-howard-fast-accepts-the-stalin-peace-prize-in-new-york/feed/ 0 A Free Voice at Christmas: RIAS Berlin, Edward R. Murrow, and the Sound of the Cold War (1961) https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/a-free-voice-at-christmas-rias-berlin-edward-r-murrow-and-the-sound-of-the-cold-war-1961/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/a-free-voice-at-christmas-rias-berlin-edward-r-murrow-and-the-sound-of-the-cold-war-1961/#respond Mon, 29 Dec 2025 01:26:09 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=24021 Recovering a forgotten Voice of America / RIAS relay preserved on magnetic tape At a glance Jump to a section I. Introduction – Why This Tape Matters In December 1961 — just months after the Berlin Wall divided Berlin and reshaped Cold War realities — the Voice of America (VOA) presented a special World-Wide English […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/a-free-voice-at-christmas-rias-berlin-edward-r-murrow-and-the-sound-of-the-cold-war-1961/feed/ 0 United States Information Agency (USIA) Becomes Parent Agency For Voice of America https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/united-states-information-agency-usia-becomes-parent-agency-for-voice-of-america/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/united-states-information-agency-usia-becomes-parent-agency-for-voice-of-america/#respond Sun, 01 Aug 2021 20:55:00 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=14795 Cold War Radio Museum   The United States Information Agency (USIA) was created on August 1, 1953, by Executive Order 10477 issued by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. USIA served as the public diplomacy agency of the United States during most of the Cold War period and included the Voice of America (VOA) international radio broadcasting […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/united-states-information-agency-usia-becomes-parent-agency-for-voice-of-america/feed/ 0 JFK on VOA and RFE 1962 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/2018/03/24/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/2018/03/24/#respond Tue, 27 Mar 2018 06:33:51 +0000 http://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=1897 Cold War Radio Museum     Commentary by Ted Lipien In his February 26, 1962 speech to mark the 20th anniversary of the Voice of America (VOA), President Kennedy discussed the necessity of freedom of information and complete truthfulness of the press, but he also argued that the Voice of America is different from private […]

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