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WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - The parent agency of Voice of America said on Friday it had actually released termination notices to over 639 more personnel, completing an 85% decline in workers since March and efficiently spelling the end of a broadcasting network established to counter Nazi propaganda.
Kari Lake, senior advisor to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, stated the personnel reduction implied 1,400 positions had been gotten rid of as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's program to cut staffing at the company to a statutory minimum.
"Reduction in Force Termination Notices were sent to 639 workers at USAGM and Voice of America, part of a long-overdue effort to dismantle a bloated, unaccountable administration," Lake stated in a declaration.
She stated the firm had been "riddled with dysfunction, bias, and waste."
Lake stated the move suggested USAGM now ran near its statutory minimum of 81 employees. She stated 250 staff members would stay throughout USAGM, Voice of America, and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, which transmits news into communist-run Cuba. She stated none of OCB's 33 had actually been ended.
The relocation likely marks an end to VOA, which was established in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda, run in nearly 50 languages and reached 360 million individuals a week, many living under authoritarian routines.
In May, nearly 600 VOA contractors were dismissed.
Some Republicans have actually accused VOA and other publicly moneyed media outlets of being prejudiced versus conservatives, and required them to be shuttered as part of wider efforts to shrink the government.
Another USAGM station, Radio Free Asia, which has already been reduced to skeleton staffing, said in a personnel email on Friday that it was carrying out extra furloughs in its personnels, ordinance, journalist security, and research, training & evaluation teams.
Various lawsuit are in train against the USAGM cuts. (Reporting by David Brunnstrom, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)
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