Voice of America’s International Journalists Won’t Have U.S. Visas Renewed

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Employees fear that the move could jeopardize critical non-English language programs.

Foreign journalists at Voice of America, the government-funded international broadcaster, will not have their visas renewed when they expire, according to. The decision from Michael Pack, the new CEO of the U.S.

Agency for Global Media that oversees VOA, affects the jobs of about 100 noncitizen journalists, who could face repercussions if forced to return to their home countries. Bay Fang, the former Radio Free Asia chief whom Pack had demoted in

 

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The complete xenophobic fud-duckery never ends.

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