Robert R. Reilly
Former Director, Voice of America
Robert R. Reilly served as director of Voice of America from 2001 to 2002. Prior to that, he had served as a producer and program host with VOA for more than a decade. The following is excerpted from the April 6, 2011, House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing “Is America’s Overseas Broadcasting Undermining Our National Interest and Undermining the Fight Against Tyrannical Regimes?” Indulge me in an imaginative exercise: If we were setting up a broadcasting service for the U.S. Government from scratch today, we would probably want to focus on the 10 most important countries and languages groups in the…
