Voice of America’s International Journalists Won’t Have U.S. Visas Renewed

Foreign journalists at Voice of America, the government-funded international broadcaster, will not have their visas renewed when they expire, according to a report by NPR. The decision from Michael Pack, the new CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media that oversees VOA, affects the jobs of about 100 noncitizen journalists, who could face repercussions if forced to return to their home countries. Bay Fang, the former Radio Free Asia chief whom Pack had demoted in June, was also dismissed.

VOA airs in more than 40 languages, including Mandarin, Russian,...