US EditionRadio Free Asia lays off most of its staff amid funding battle with Trump
- Radio Free Asia laid off about 90 percent of its staff and shut down many language services on Friday due to funding cuts.
- This action came after President Trump issued a directive in March instructing the federal body responsible for funding U.S.-government-backed broadcasters to scale back its activities to the minimum necessary.
- Radio Free Asia broadcasts since 1996 in languages such as Burmese, Cambodian, and Mandarin, reaching around 60 million weekly listeners worldwide.
- Radio Free Asia CEO Bay Fang said on Friday, "We are in an unconscionable situation" because the administration withheld funds despite a federal judge’s ruling.
- The layoffs reflect significant cuts to U.S.-funded international broadcasting and raise concerns about unchecked propaganda in authoritarian regions amid ongoing legal battles.
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Radio Free Asia announces mass layoffs amid funding fight with Trump administration
Radio Free Asia is laying off about 90 percent of its staff and is shutting down many of its language services, citing its inability to continue paying employees after the Trump administration cut off its funding.“We are in an unconscionable situation,” Bay Fang, RFA’s president and CEO, said in a statement. “Because we can no longer rely on [the U.S. Agency for Global Media] to disburse our funds as Congress intended, we will have to begin mass…
Radio Free Asia shuts language services after Trump cuts, including Uyghur, Tibetan content
Radio Free Asia said Friday it will lay off almost all of its staff and close production in several languages, including a rare Uyghur service, after President Donald Trump cut off funding.
Radio Free Asia announces mass layoffs amid funding battle
Radio Free Asia (RFA), a U.S. government-funded news network that broadcasts in nine Asian languages, has virtually fired everyone in the staff because of the halting of government funding for the network under the Trump administration. The network has also discontinued a number of its news shows and digital streams. It closely follows the executive...
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