VOA Adapts to COVID-19 Challenges

VOA Korean reporter, Seeyoung Kim, turned a closet full of clothes into a soundproofed studio and makeshift recording booth in order to muffle background noise.

Arman Tarjimanyan, reporter for VOA’s Armenian service, improvised a green screen in his home with a $1 green, plastic tablecloth taped to the wall to record stand-up news segments

Transforming his living room into a self-isolation studio for live TV interviews to affiliate stations in Bosnia, VOA’s Bosnian service journalist, Dino Jahic, uses his ironing board to double as an anchor desk to set up an in-home camera on his laptop for live broadcasts.

Transforming his living room into a self-isolation studio for live TV interviews to affiliate stations in Bosnia, VOA’s Bosnian service journalist, Dino Jahic, uses his ironing board to double as an anchor desk to set up an in-home camera on his laptop for live broadcasts.

Broadcasting live to affiliates in Latin America, Celia Mendoza, a VOA Spanish service broadcaster, produces live remotes from her bathroom, turning the space into a television studio with a Washington, D.C.-themed shower curtain as a backdrop

Broadcasting live to affiliates in Latin America, Celia Mendoza, a VOA Spanish service broadcaster, produces live remotes from her bathroom, turning the space into a television studio with a Washington, D.C.-themed shower curtain as a backdrop

VOA Russia - COVID-19 coverage

Mehtap Yilmaz of VOA Turkish interviews Dr. Furkan Burak of Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

VOA Russian journalist reporting from home.

VOA Bangla journalist's home transforms into a studio.

VOA Latin America journalist reports from a rooftop studio.

A deserted VOA hallway.

A deserted VOA Afgan service.

VOA's Chet Rhodes hard at work.

VOA's Charleston Mock in the Intake Center.

VOA's AJ Wilder taking a break in the radio studios.

VOA's Austin Madert manning the audio controls.

VOA's Pat Kehs in the lighting studio.

VOA's Darrel Mitchell mans the controls in the camera studio.

VOA's Sonny Tang hard at work in studio.

VOA's Nelso Lopes in the intake center.