{"id":11362,"date":"2014-11-11T09:52:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T13:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11362"},"modified":"2014-11-11T09:52:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T13:52:40","slug":"while-ofcom-threatens-rt-voice-of-russia-launches-as-sputnik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/while-ofcom-threatens-rt-voice-of-russia-launches-as-sputnik\/","title":{"rendered":"While Ofcom threatens RT, Voice of Russia launches as “Sputnik”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sputnik\"

(November 11, 2014 Screen capture from Sputnik news agency and radio)<\/p><\/div>\n

As some attentive\u00a0SWLing Post<\/em> readers have noted,\u00a0the Voice of Russia has found a new identity\u2013<\/em>Sputnik News Agency and Radio\u2013<\/em>with\u00a0a new website\/news portal<\/a>\u00a0to match.\u00a0Here’s the message the (former)\u00a0Voice of Russia<\/a>\u00a0posted on their website today:<\/p>\n

“Dear readers, we are excited to announce that the Voice of Russia is changing its name and moving over to a new website. We will now be known as Sputnik news agency and radio. You can find all the latest stories from our London bureau here: http:\/\/uk.sputniknews.com<\/a>. Please update your bookmarks and stay with us!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile,\u00a0The Guardian<\/em> is reporting that Russia Today<\/em> has been found guilty<\/a> of breaching UK broadcasting regulations in their coverage of the Ukraine crisis:<\/p>\n

Russia Today, or RT, was summoned to a meeting with Ofcom after it was found guilty of breaching the code governing UK broadcasters in a ruling published on Monday.<\/p>\n

The regulator flagged up four separate reports, all broadcast in March this year, all dealing with the situation in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Ofcom said it recognised that RT, which is funded by the Russian government and launched a UK version last month, would \u201cwant to present the news from a Russian perspective\u201d.<\/p>\n

But it said all news must be presented with \u201cdue impartiality \u2026 in particular, when reporting on matters of major political controversy\u201d.<\/p>\n

[Read the full article at The Guardian online…<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As some attentive\u00a0SWLing Post readers have noted,\u00a0the Voice of Russia has found a new identity\u2013Sputnik News Agency and Radio\u2013with\u00a0a new website\/news portal\u00a0to match.\u00a0Here’s the message the (former)\u00a0Voice of Russia\u00a0posted on their website today: “Dear readers, we are excited to announce that the Voice of Russia is changing its name and moving over to a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3],"tags":[2181,682,3401,787,408],"class_list":["post-11362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","tag-ofcom","tag-russia-today","tag-sputnik-news-agency-and-radio","tag-the-guardian","tag-voice-of-russia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Xg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12845,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/cri-rfa-sputnik-and-the-bbc-an-information-battle\/","url_meta":{"origin":11362,"position":0},"title":"CRI, RFA, Sputnik, and the BBC: an “information battle?”","author":"Thomas","date":"March 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Cuff, for sharing this article from The National: Radio wars: information battle heats up as Russia and China muscle in For about 70 years it was the base of the BBC World Service. 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