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Tough Nut: BBC Plans a North Korean Service
Kim Andrew Elliott, uscpublicdiplomacy.orguncaptioned image from articleMar 2, 2016The BBC has confirmed its intention to create a radio service for North Korea, although, despite a recent report, a...
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Anthony Quinn's Freya: an engaging costume drama
Wynn Wheldon, Spectator.co.uk Image from article, with caption: The swinging sixtiesThis big, colourful novel, written by a film critic and set in Fifties bohemian London, is as addictive as a TV box...
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Nigeria: The State of Nigeria - Why Nigeria Needs to Invest in Building the...
Brigitte Sesu Tilley-Gyado, AllAfrica.comImage from, under the headline: Any Nigerian Publicity Is Good Publicity. Just Ask Social Media.Nigeria is in a state of crisis. The Nigerian brand has never...
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Smart Soft Power Needs Flexibility and Diversification
By Ted Lipien, BBG Watchuncaptioned image from articleDiversified Outreach of U.S. Media and Public Diplomacy During the Cold War – American Diplomats and Broadcasters Discuss Impact of Voice of...
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The American Corporations Advertising With a Racist Russian TV Channel
Mitchell Polman, thedailybeast.comuncaptioned image from articleFortune 500 companies are selling their products on pro-Kremlin channels that traffic in black stereotypes and...
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Lecture, book presentation with Crocker Snow Jr.
ipswich.wickedlocal.comSnow image from entryJournalist Crocker Snow Jr. will discuss Muskeget, an island that was named a national natural landmark. Ipswich resident and journalist Crocker Snow Jr....
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How Israel will win the public diplomacy war
Dov Lipman, jpost.comImage from article, with caption: A masked Palestinian boy wearing the headband of Hamas's armed wing takes part in a rally marking the 28th anniversary of Hamas' founding in Gaza...
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'Glitch': Months' Worth of Emails from Top Deputy Failed to Reach Hillary...
Aaron Klein, Breitbart Newsimage (not from article) fromTEL AVIV – An alarming exchange between Hillary Clinton and one of her top deputies reveals Clinton’s private email server may have had...
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Found on the Web: Concept For a Unified Presentation of the Czech Republic
mzv.cz [pardon the awkward margins]18.08.2005 / 11:43The Ministry of Foreign Affairs formulated a Concept for a Unified Presentation of the Czech Republic, which the government of the Czech Republic...
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New, strong and clear outreach
Nirupama Rao, The HinduImage from article, with caption: Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Madison Square Garden in New York, in 2014. Excerpt:India’s almost 30-million-strong population of persons of...
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Israel News Message in a bottle
Editorial, Jerusalem PostImage from article, with caption: A Palestinian employee works at the SodaStream factory Excerpt:Prospects for reaching a negotiated peace agreement with the Palestinians are...
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Public Diplomacy Website Connects the US with the Netherlands
the-netherlands.orgImage (not from article) fromThe Royal Netherlands Embassy has launched a public diplomacy website, NLintheUSA.com, to highlight industries in which the Dutch excel that have special...
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Quotable: Philip Breedlove on employing the informational element of power
publicdiplomacycouncil.orgWednesday, March 2nd 2016“Russia overwhelms the information space with a barrage of lies that must be addressed by the United States more aggressively in both public and...
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Why America Turned Off Al Jazeera - Expanded/updated entry (3/3/2016)
By Hussein Ibis, Feb 17, 2016, New York Times [see Professor Seib's 2011 article on the subject below, as well as a just-added recent report (Feb 29) on the US air base in Qatar]image fromWASHINGTON —...
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UN Foundation calls CPD "Global Influencer to Follow"
uscpublicdiplomacy.orgimage from entryMar 3, 2016In a recent entry on Global Connections, the United Nations Foundation blog, Aaron Sherinian included the USC Center on Public Diplomacy in his "ABCs of...
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Interview: Ambassador Gary Locke
Mercy A. Kuo and Angie O. Tang, thediplomat.comLocke image from entryU.S. presidential leadership and the future of U.S.-China relationsExcerpt:The Rebalance authors Mercy Kuo and Angie Tang regularly...
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Communist Party of China enters decisive phase
Lovemore Chikova, allafrica.comYu image fromExcerpt:Beijing — China [:] The Communist Party of China has said it has entered its decisive phase in building a truly prosperous society and declared 2016...
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Yemen's Hadi Gov Said UN Moves Iranian Equipment, Invites UNCA to Breakfast
Matthew Russell Lee, innercitypress.comimage (not froom entry) fromExcerpt:Dear Colleagues,UNCA [The United Nations Correspondents Association] is extending an invitation sent from the Permanent...
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The New EER Form [Performance Report Foreign Service Officer] and Drafting...
image of (presumably) old EER form fromvideo on this event:On Thursday, February 25, 2016 AFSA and the Public Diplomacy Council hosted a discussion on the new EER Form and Drafting Best Practices. The...
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Interview: Nigeria can learn from China's experience: media chief
by Bosun Awoniyi, Zhang baoping, shanghaidaily.comimage fromLAGOS, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria can learn from the experience China has gained in its economic reform and development, a media chief...
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