CUSIB News Ann Noonan, Executive Director of the independent and non-partisan Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB –cusib.org) spoke at the memorial service in New York for Liu Xiaobo on Saturday, July 15. Liu Xiaobo Memorial Service New York July 15, 2017 ANN NOONAN, CUSIB: One behalf of the Committee for US International Broadcasting, Ted […]
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CUSIB Executive Director Ann Noonan calls for more funding for U.S. broadcasting to China and Tibet
CUSIB News August 7, 2016 Speaking at an event last week in Flushing, NY, sponsored by the Qi’s Cultural Foundation, Ann Noonan, Executive Director for the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB.org), stressed the need for the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to increase funding for Voice of America (VOA) radio and TV Chinese language […]
CUSIB calls on BBG to expand journalism and shrink agency's bureaucracy
The following CUSIB statement was presented by Joseph Noonan at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) open board meeting on October 8, 2015 in Washington, DC: CUSIB STATEMENT – VIDEO (as prepared for delivery) Good morning and thank you for welcoming me today. As a representative for the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting, I’m here […]
CUSIB’s Ann Noonan at Dec. 18, 2014 BBG meeting VIDEO
Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) Executive Director Ann Noonan, speaking at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) board meeting on December 18, 2014 in Washington, DC, addressed a number of issues. They included Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) Radio and TV Marti illegally RIFed journalists who have not yet been rehired and […]
CUSIB calls radio the best countermeasure to Internet censorship and spying on netizens in China
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 2, 2014 Ann Noonan, Executive Director of the independent NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) spoke Monday, September 1, at a press conference in New York’s Chinatown organized by U.S. supporters of democracy in Hong Kong and throughout the rest of China. Ann Noonan made a […]
CUSIB Condemns BBG Shortwave Committee Report for Targeting Vulnerable Radio Audiences for Cuts Rather Than Cutting Waste
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 1, 2014 The independent and nonpartisan Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) issued a statement condemning the the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Special Committee on the Future of Shortwave Broadcasting report, inappropriately titled “To Be Where the Audience Is,” for targeting poor and vulnerable radio audiences for cuts […]
CUSIB Calls for Matt Armstrong to Step Aside as Chair of the BBG's Special Committee on the Future of Shortwave Broadcasting
July 21, 2014 For Immediate Release CUSIB Calls for Matt Armstrong to Step Aside as Chair of the BBG’s Special Committee on the Future of Shortwave Broadcasting In response to the sudden and serious damage done to the Broadcasting Board of Governors short wave and medium wave radio services to countries without free media, Committee […]
CUSIB Supports Media Coverage for Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration
CUSIB Supports Media Coverage for Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration On Friday, November 15, 2013, the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting’s Advisory Board Member Jing Zhang and CUSIB Executive Director, Ann Noonan participated in a press conference about the upcoming 25th Commemoration of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. The press conference, held in Flushing, New York, was organized […]
CUSIB’s Ann Noonan in Radio World: U.S. international broadcasting needs new vision and better management
CUSIB’s Ann Noonan in Radio World: U.S. international broadcasting needs new vision and better management In an article, How We Sound to the World, published in the October International Edition of Radio World magazine, the Executive Director of the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org), Ann Noonan, calls for reforms of federally-funded media […]
China Dissident Zhang Lin’s Daughters Come to the US, Father and Supporters Still in Prison
For Immediate Release September 12, 2013 Ann Noonan, Executive Director of the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) published an article in which she mentions the role of U.S.-funded international broadcasters, Radio Free Asia (RFA) and Voice of America (VOA), in overcoming media censorship in China and focusing public attention on the plight […]