SPJ 'Disturbed' by VOA Complaint
The Society of Professional Journalists is “disturbed” by an NPR report that political appointees at the U.S. Agency for Global Media issued a complaint of bias against Voice of America White House bureau chief Steve Herman, said a release Wednesday.…
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“Editorial independence is ‘enshrined’ in the parent agency’s enabling legislation,” said SPJ National President Matthew Hall in the release. “Bureaucrats bound by law and their better angels should not intrude on VOA’s journalism in any way.”