Tahir in MS NOW on the US Agency for Global Media

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Council Get involved Leadership & governance For media Subscribe by email Find job opportunities Donate On October 6, Muhammad Tahir, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, was published in MS NOW on the dangers of reducing the operations of the US Agency for Global Media. I spent years in those newsrooms. The hardest thing to build wasn’t a studio, a transmitter or a website. It was trust. Audiences in closed societies are not short of information. What is scarce is information they believe. Related Experts: Muhammad Tahir