Back إذاعة أوروبا الحرة Arabic اذاعه اوروبا الحره ARZ Azadlıq Radiosu Azerbaijani Азатлыҡ радиоһы Bashkir Liousas Euruopas radėjė BAT-SMG Радыё Свабодная Еўропа/Радыё Свабода Byelorussian Радыё Свабодная Эўропа/Радыё Свабода BE-X-OLD Радио „Свободна Европа“ Bulgarian Radio Free Europe Breton Radio Liberty Catalan
 RFE/RL official logo | |
| Abbreviation | RFE/RL |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1949 (Radio Free Europe), 1953 (Radio Liberty), 1976 (merger) |
| Type | 501(c)3 organization[1][2] |
| 52-1068522 | |
| Purpose | Broadcast Media |
| Headquarters | Prague Broadcast Center 50°4′44″N 14°28′43″E / 50.07889°N 14.47861°E |
| Location |
|
Official language | English Programs are also available in Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Bosnian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chechen, Crimean Tatar, Dari, Georgian, Hungarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Pashto, Persian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek In the past also Polish, Czech, Slovak, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian and various other languages; see this list |
| Owner | U.S. Agency for Global Media |
President | Stephen Capus[3] |
Vice President and Head of News | Nicola Careem[4] |
General Counsel/Secretary | Benjamin Herman[4] |
| Budget | $124,300,000[5] (Fiscal year 2021) |
| Staff | >1700[5] |
| Website |
|
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an American government-funded media organization broadcasting news and analyses in 27 languages to 23 countries[7] across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East. Headquartered in Prague since 1995, RFE/RL operates 21 local bureaus with over 500 core staff, 1,300 freelancers, and 680 employees at its corporate offices in Washington, D.C. Nicola Careem serves as the editor-in-chief.
Founded during the Cold War, RFE began in 1949 targeting Soviet satellite states,[8] while RL, established in 1951, focused on the Soviet Union. Initially funded covertly by the CIA until 1972,[9][10] the two merged in 1976. RFE/RL was headquartered in Munich from 1949 to 1995, with additional broadcasts from Portugal's Glória do Ribatejo until 1996. Soviet authorities jammed their signals, and communist regimes often infiltrated their operations.
Today, RFE/RL is a private 501(c)(3) corporation supervised by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees all government-supported international broadcasting. Since the Revolutions of 1989 and the Soviet Union's dissolution, the organization's European presence has been reduced.
- ^ "Inspection of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty" (PDF). Office of Inspector General (United States). United States Department of State. 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
- ^ "RFE/RL – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – Source description". European Country of Origin Information Network. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
- ^ "RFE/RL Senior Management". RFE/RL. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
- ^ a b "Management And Governance". RFE/RL. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
- ^ a b "About Us". RFE/RL.
- ^ Staff Writer. (1 August 2024). "How To Bypass Blocking". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. www.rferl.org. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "RFE/RL Language Services". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
- ^ Uttaro, Ralph A. (1982). "The voices of America in international radio propaganda". Law and Contemporary Problems. 45 (4): 103–122. doi:10.2307/1191297. JSTOR 1191297.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
:1was invoked but never defined (see the help page).