Kari Lake is the new special adviser to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which supervises Radio Free Asia, and who cut the ...
Several full-time employees and contractors at the Martí stations were immediately placed on administrative leave.
Advocates for the government-funded networks, including lawmakers in both the United States and Europe, say the cutbacks will undermine press freedoms and hurt America’s standing in the world.
Federal officials placed 1,300 employees at Voice of America on indefinite paid leave, while severing contracts with Radio Free Asia and other U.S.-funded networks.