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Farewell to Stefan Korboński in Washington (1989) — Recording and Memory

Curator — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:52:34 +0000

An archival audio cassette preserving a fragment of the funeral service for Stefan Korboński in Washington, D.C., in 1989, forms part of the documentary record of the Polish émigré community and its media institutions in the West. The recording presented here is one of the few surviving audio traces of the memorial Mass held on April 27, 1989, […]

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April 22, 1954: Howard Fast Accepts the Stalin Peace Prize in New York

Curator — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:05:17 +0000

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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A Free Voice at Christmas: RIAS Berlin, Edward R. Murrow, and the Sound of the Cold War (1961)

Curator — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 01:26:09 +0000

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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Why are US-funded USAGM journalists defending Russia, Iran over the Hamas massacre? – Ted Lipien Op-Ed in The Hill

Curator — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:57:22 +0000

My new op-ed in The Hill includes comments on the latest barbaric attacks by Hamas terrorists on Israeli civilians—defenseless Jewish women, children, and the elderly. I discuss the hard-to-understand and explain defense of propaganda and disinformation from Iran and Russia by U.S. government-managed and funded U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) journalists, including federal employees working for the Voice […]

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Office of War Information – Descriptions of Voice of America, OWI, and Office of Censorship Show Similarities to Disinformation Governance Board

Curator — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 23:25:33 +0000

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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Voice of America 1967 FDC by Ralph Dyer

Curator — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 01:03:35 +0000

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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Discrimination of Refugee Broadcasters by Voice of America Management Has Been Hidden for Decades

Curator — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:14:34 +0000

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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Stalin Prize-Winning Chief Writer of Voice of America News

Curator — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 04:07:13 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum On January 12, 1944, Howard Fast, best-selling author, a Communist Party USA activist, and a future recipient of the Stalin Peace Prize, resigned under pressure from his position as the Voice of America (VOA) chief news writer and editor, in effect, the job of VOA’s first news director, and left federal […]

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