Meet the New U.S. Agency for Global Media

Government Executive: Nineteen years after its creation, the Broadcasting Board of Governors last week announced its new name: The U.S. Agency for Global Media.

The reason, according to CEO and Director John Lansing in an Aug. 23 statement, is that the agency in 2018 is a “modern media organization, operating far beyond the traditional broadcast mediums of television and radio to include digital and mobile platforms. The term ‘broadcasting’ does not accurately describe what we do,” he said.

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