Journalists fight Trump ‘attacks’ on media as Beijing ramps up state-run radio

When Patsy Widakuswara first saw news that a pro-Trump network would provide content to Voice of America (VOA), she was hunkered down in a bomb shelter in Kyiv. The threat of a Russian attack came during the VOA White House Bureau chief’s trip to Ukraine in May, when she attended a security forum and spoke on a panel about freedom of the media. VOA, set up and funded by the US government in 1942 to counter propaganda, was largely silenced in March when the Trump administration slashed its funding. The government agency that housed VOA, the US Agency for Global…