The Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program is pleased to announce the publication of an Occasional Paper, “ A 21st Century Vision for US Global Media,” by Wilson Center Senior Scholar A. Ross Johnson and R. Eugene Parta. The authors apply lessons from successful US international broadcasting during the Cold War to today’s transformed geopolitical, media, and technological world. They suggest a restatement of mission and corresponding organizational changes to ensure that international broadcasting remains an effective instrument of US soft power – one supporting freedom and democracy abroad in the national interest.
About the Authors
A. Ross Johnson
Senior Adviser, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; former Director, Radio Free Europe
R. Eugene Parta
History and Public Policy Program
The History and Public Policy Program makes public the primary source record of 20th and 21st century international history from repositories around the world, facilitates scholarship based on those records, and uses these materials to provide context for classroom, public, and policy debates on global affairs. Read more
