{"id":65915,"date":"2026-04-30T05:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65915"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:35:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:35:27","slug":"kim-andrew-elliott-why-congress-should-fund-voa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/kim-andrew-elliott-why-congress-should-fund-voa\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Andrew Elliott: Why Congress Should Fund VOA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station in North Carolina<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Dennis Dura who shares this post from Kim Andrew Elliott<\/a> regarding the importance of continued congressional funding for the Voice of America (VOA). He argues that U.S. international broadcasting is still a vital form of soft power\u2014delivering credible news where press freedom is limited\u2014and warns that cutting funding would weaken a key source of trusted global journalism when it\u2019s needed most.<\/p>\n

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dennis Dura who shares this post from Kim Andrew Elliott regarding the importance of continued congressional funding for the Voice of America (VOA). He argues that U.S. international broadcasting is still a vital form of soft power\u2014delivering credible news where press freedom is limited\u2014and warns that cutting funding would […]<\/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":[960,3,43],"tags":[4111,989,182],"class_list":["post-65915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-international-broadcasting","tag-kim-andrew-elliott","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-h99","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10397,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/success-requires-independence-and-consolidation\/","url_meta":{"origin":65915,"position":0},"title":"“Success Requires Independence and Consolidation”","author":"Thomas","date":"July 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Regarding the passing of HR4490 in the US House, Jonathan Marks comments: \"[This] article by Kim Andrew Elliott is 2 years old, the arguments well over a decade. 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