About 1,400 Voice of America employees and contractors at its parent agency, the US Agency for Global Media, gained access to their email accounts and other systems on Saturday. But later in the day, an appeals court paused the earlier ruling that had prompted the return-to-work message.
Getting the Voice of America back online will be no small task.
“Bringing VOA out of a deep coma will require substantial time and a Herculean effort of our nearly 50 language services to try to reach some of our pre-shutdown total audience of 340 million,” VOA chief national correspondent Steve Herman told CNN.
Herman pointed out that VOA readers and listeners were never “given an explanation of why we were silenced.” https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/03/media/voice-of-america-return-trump-lake #WPFD2025 #SaveVOA
About 1,400 Voice of America employees and contractors at its parent agency, the US Agency for Global Media, gained access to their email accounts and other systems on Saturday. But later in the day, an appeals court paused the earlier ruling that had prompted the return-to-work message.
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