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Voice of America ending contracts with Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France Presse

The U.S. Agency for Global Media , an independent U.S. Government agency with an 83-year history and a nearly billion-dollar budget, is ending its contracts with major international news agencies.
The USAGM, responsible for broadcasting news internationally, is cutting contracts with The Associated Press , Reuters, and Agence France-Presse .
Senior Trump administration advisor Kari Lake announced the move on social media, describing the contracts as expensive and unnecessary, worth tens of millions of dollars.
Lake stated that with a nearly billion-dollar budget, USAGM should be producing its own news content, questioning the need to pay outside news companies.
The decision to end these contracts aligns with the views of L. Brent Bozell III, a conservative media critic appointed as head of USAGM in January after President Trump took office, who has advocated for reshaping U.S. Government-funded news operations.

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