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International broadcasters

  • Voice of AmericaVoice of America went dark in March 2025 for the first time since 1942. More than 1,300 staff were placed on leave.
  • France 24France 24 nearly launched under a name managers couldn't pronounce. The working title CFII was awkward to say in French.
  • Al Jazeera EnglishEgyptian forces arrested three Al Jazeera English journalists in a Cairo hotel in December 2013.
  • Radio France InternationaleTogo's president phoned the Elysee Palace to stop a Radio France Internationale interview.
  • RT (TV network)RT launched in December 2005 as Russia Today, with 300 journalists and a goal of showing a different Russia.
  • Deutsche WelleRussia shut down Deutsche Welle's Moscow bureau on the 3rd of February 2022. DW then moved its Moscow work to Riga.
  • EuronewsEuronews began as Europe's answer to CNN's Persian Gulf War coverage. It first went on air from Lyon on January 1, 1993.
  • Radio Free Europe/Radio LibertyIn 1958, Soviet leaders admitted jamming Radio Free Europe cost more than all their own broadcasting.
  • UkrinformUkraine's national news agency began in 1918 under Dmytro Dontsov. It still publishes in eight languages.
  • Sputnik (news agency)Sputnik's own White House reporter quit in 2017, saying editors wanted propagandists, not real journalists.

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