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Tsering Dhundup
DHARAMSHALA, May 6: Radio Free Asia’s Tibetan Service, one of the few independent news sources available to Tibetans inside Tibet and in exile, will cease operations at the end of this month amid unprecedented budget cuts and legal battles between RFA and the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM). This closure follows the Voice of America’s Tibetan service halting operations in late March.
The closure comes as part of a massive restructuring announced on May 2, “By the end of May, half of RFA’s language services will no longer produce or publish new content: RFA Tibetan, Burmese, Uyghur – which is the world’s only independent Uyghur language news service – and Lao (which closed down this week already). Also, ceasing operations will be RFA English service and Asia Fact Check Lab” the statement read, affecting more than 280 staff members, approximately 90 per cent of RFA’s U.S.-based workforce.
“We are losing journalists w...
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