JDG completes search for USAGM’s Director, Voice of America
JDG and The U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) are pleased to announce Michael Abramowitz as the new Director of Voice of America (VOA). Per USAGM’s website, Abramowitz is an experienced and respected journalist who most recently comes from Freedom House where, as president, he oversees analysis, advocacy, and direct support to frontline defenders of freedom. He previously directed the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education, and led the museum’s genocide prevention efforts. He spent the first 24 years of his career at the Washington Post, where he rose to become national editor – one of the Post’s top leadership positions – and then White House correspondent. At the Post, he led a team which won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for its coverage of post-2001 efforts to capture Osama bin Laden.
A graduate of Harvard College, Michael is a board member of the National Security Archive, a member of the Advisory Council for the George W. Bush Institute, and a member of the Advisory Council of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was formerly a Marshall Memorial fellow at the German Marshall Fund and Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.
After wrapping up his current duties at Freedom House and fulfilling certain administrative requirements, Michael is expected to start his new position this summer.
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