{"id":63314,"date":"2025-07-01T14:49:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63314"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:49:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:49:38","slug":"cjr-reports-voas-quiet-broadcast-to-north-korea-ends-without-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/cjr-reports-voas-quiet-broadcast-to-north-korea-ends-without-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"CJR Reports: VOA\u2019s Quiet Broadcast to North Korea Ends Without Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Columbia Journalism Review<\/i><\/a> investigates a little-known Voice of America television initiative that quietly broadcast into North Korea from South Korea\u2014until it was recently shut down. The article explores how this short-lived program, launched during the Biden administration, came to an abrupt end under new leadership at the U.S. Agency for Global Media. It raises questions about the shifting priorities in U.S. international broadcasting and how those changes may impact efforts to reach audiences in one of the world\u2019s most closed societies.<\/p>\n

Read the full story at CJR.org.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Columbia Journalism Review investigates a little-known Voice of America television initiative that quietly broadcast into North Korea from South Korea\u2014until it was recently shut down. The article explores how this short-lived program, launched during the Biden administration, came to an abrupt end under new leadership at the U.S. Agency for Global Media. It raises […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[960,3],"tags":[6995,1871,474,182],"class_list":["post-63314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","tag-columbia-journalism-review","tag-dprk","tag-north-korea","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gtc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3775,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/north-korea-is-testing-digital-shortwave-broadcasting-via-drm\/","url_meta":{"origin":63314,"position":0},"title":"North Korea is testing digital shortwave broadcasting via DRM","author":"Thomas","date":"June 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"As Vatican Radio pulls out of DRM, North Korea moves in. 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