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Nicaragua withdraws from UNESCO in protest over press freedom award to Nicaraguan newspaper, La Prensa (LINK) 4 May 2025.

Voice of America could be back on air next week: the broadcaster fell silent in March after an executive order by US President Donald Trump (LINK) 3 May 2025.

US federal court halts ruling ordering Voice of America to allow employees back to work and restore funding for Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks (LINK).

— The appeals court in a 2-1 decision suggested earlier judge lacked jurisdiction to order the employees to return to work and to require the restoration of $15 million in grants for Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks.

Radio Free Asia announces mass layoffs amid funding fight with Trump administration: about 90 percent of staff, and shutting down many of its language services (LINK) 2 May 2025.

— Since 1996, RFA has broadcast in languages like Burmese, Cambodian and Mandarin to a weekly audience of around 60 million listeners.

President Trump orders Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for NPR and PBS (LINK) 1 May 2025.

whitehouse.gov: "Ending Taxpayer Subsidization Of Biased Media" (LINK) — 1 May 2025.

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