VOA News Center
With bureaus and reporters around the world producing original content for web, radio, television, mobile apps and social media, VOA’s News Center serves as the agency’s 24/7 news hub, supplying more than 45 language services with the core of their programming. It also offers its own programming roster, including weekly television programs such as “The Inside Story," top-of-the-hour radio newscasts updated around the clock, daily and weekly podcasts “Flashpoint Global Crises” and “Flashpoint Ukraine,” and award-winning documentaries on topics rarely covered elsewhere. Combined with comprehensive coverage of major news events, enlightening investigations, detailed fact checking, balanced analysis and extensive beat coverage, the output of VOA’s News Center results in a wide-ranging catalogue of trustworthy journalism brought to global audiences estimated to exceed 354 million viewers, listeners and readers.
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Programs
The Inside Story: The Inside Story is a 25-minute weekly television program produced by the Voice of America News Center and hosted by a rotating group of VOA reporters. Each week, The Inside Story provides a wide and deep examination of one issue in the news, using VOA’s worldwide reporting strength.
Flashpoint Global Crises: A 25-minute podcast airing on weekdays that examines the most recent developments in current crisis ranging from the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East to the latest flare-ups in Africa, Asia and elsewhere, while featuring the stories of those most affected. Hosts speak with experts from around the world to deliver in-depth analysis.
Flashpoint Ukraine: VOA's Flashpoint Ukraine podcast goes beyond the headlines to look at the most recent developments in the Russia-Ukraine war. We bring you the most recent news and analysis from the front lines, as well as human stories from those affected by the conflict.
International Edition: A 25-minute news program airing on weekdays that delivers insight into world news through eye-witnesses, correspondent reports and analysis from experts and newsmakers.
Issues in the News: A 25-minute weekly audio program that focuses on the biggest news stories of the week. The program’s in-depth analysis provides the inside story on both domestic and international news.
Top-of-the-hour 5-minute English radio newscasts
Bureaus
Washington:
The White House, State Department, Pentagon, Congress
The United Nations Headquarters
Domestic:
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver
International:
-Africa: Nairobi
-Asia: Bangkok, Beijing, Islamabad, Seoul
-Europe: London, Warsaw, Moscow, Istanbul
Coverage Beats
National Security, U.S. Politics, Economics, Diplomacy, Education, Health, Science, Lifestyle, Immigration and Diaspora, Investigations and Fact-Checking, Women’s Issues, Native American Affairs, Uyghur Affairs, Technology, Press Freedom, Courts and Law Enforcement.
The News Center oversees “Special Events” programming and coordination and is responsible for agency-wide news coverage planning.