#VOA80 Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/tag/voa80-2/ Cold War Radio History Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:00:43 +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 #VOA80 Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/tag/voa80-2/ 32 32 Office of War Information – Descriptions of Voice of America, OWI, and Office of Censorship Show Similarities to Disinformation Governance Board https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/office-of-war-information-descriptions-of-voice-of-america-owi-and-office-of-censorship-show-similarities-to-disinformation-governance-board/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/office-of-war-information-descriptions-of-voice-of-america-owi-and-office-of-censorship-show-similarities-to-disinformation-governance-board/#respond Fri, 17 Jun 2022 23:25:33 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=13574 The Office of War Information (OWI) and the Voice of America (VOA) during the Second World War would have been the closest model for comparison to the Disinformation Governance Board (DGB), an advisory board of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), announced on April 27, 2022, to protect national security by disseminating guidance on combating disinformation but later paused […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/office-of-war-information-descriptions-of-voice-of-america-owi-and-office-of-censorship-show-similarities-to-disinformation-governance-board/feed/ 0 Voice of America 1967 FDC by Ralph Dyer https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/voice-of-america-1967-fdc-by-ralph-dyer/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/voice-of-america-1967-fdc-by-ralph-dyer/#respond Sun, 05 Dec 2021 01:03:35 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=13067 The hand-painted First Day Cover (FDC) by philatelic artist Ralph Dyar for the 1967 Voice of America stamp is displayed in the Cold War Radio online virtual museum. Ralph Dyar was born in Mexico in 1889 and died in 2000 in San Diego, California. A gifted artist, he produced hundreds of U.S. FDCs and some […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/voice-of-america-1967-fdc-by-ralph-dyer/feed/ 0 A 1949 Letter to Voice of America from Italy https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/writing-to-voice-of-america-from-italy-in-1949/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/writing-to-voice-of-america-from-italy-in-1949/#respond Wed, 23 Jun 2021 14:55:50 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=12943 In April 1949, someone mailed a letter from Ravenna, Italy to the Voice of America (VOA) office in Rome at Via Vittorio Veneto 62. The envelope was addressed to “LA VOCE DELL ‘ AMERICA” (THE VOICE OF AMERICA). It had no return address. It was stamped by the Italian Post Office in Ravenna on April […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/writing-to-voice-of-america-from-italy-in-1949/feed/ 0 Discrimination of Refugee Broadcasters by Voice of America Management Has Been Hidden for Decades https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/discrimination-of-refugee-broadcasters-by-voice-of-america-management-has-been-hidden-for-decades/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/discrimination-of-refugee-broadcasters-by-voice-of-america-management-has-been-hidden-for-decades/#respond Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:14:34 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=12925 Treated for decades as second-class citizens and denied direct access to wire services by U.S.-born, mostly white, mostly left-leaning, and mostly male Voice of America (VOA) managers and reporters, these VOA immigrant broadcasters, some of them outstanding women journalists who spent time in communist prisons, did their best to win the propaganda war with the […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/discrimination-of-refugee-broadcasters-by-voice-of-america-management-has-been-hidden-for-decades/feed/ 0 Letters from Australia to the Voice of America in New York in the late 1940s https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/letters-from-australia-to-the-voice-of-america-in-new-york-in-the-late-1940s/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/letters-from-australia-to-the-voice-of-america-in-new-york-in-the-late-1940s/#respond Wed, 16 Jun 2021 05:25:36 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=12917 As the Voice of America (VOA), the United States government radio station for international audiences, observes its eightieth anniversary, it may surprise Americans who know about its existence that in its first years during the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), the U.S. taxpayer-funded broadcaster had a long period of intense fascination with Soviet […]

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