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Back Issues of PDAA Today

Back issues of PDAA Today, PDAA’s quarterly print newsletter are now online and available for download.

2015 Awards Recognize Public Diplomacy in China, Poland, Afghanistan, West Africa

Molly Westrake photographs a Congressional visit to a safe Ebola burial site in Liberia. (Courtesy, Molly Westrake)

10 May 2015. The 2015 winners of the 18th annual PDAA awards for innovative and effective PD strategies clearly demonstrated creativity, courage and tenacity in addressing critical issues ranging from Ebola in Africa and women’s rights […]

New Novel Formed from Public Diplomat’s Life Experiences

(Author House)

31 January 2015. Retired foreign service officer Bruce Byers reached into his past to create a new novel, The Extraordinary Journey of Harry Forth, published by AuthorHouse in November 2014. The book tells of a fictional American teenager whose life is changed by a student exchange experience in Germany in the […]

Andrew Lack New Chief Exec at BBG

Andrew Lack (BBG.gov)

24 January 2015. Veteran media executive Andrew Lack was sworn-in this week as Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the federal agency that oversees the five networks and broadcasting operations of U.S. international media. Those networks include the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio […]

PD Advisory Committee Annual Report Issued

(U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy)

14 December 2014. U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (ACPD) issued its annual report for 2014 on 11 December, the first such report since its reauthorization last year. The group’s document aims to provide a benchmark for more analytical reports in the future.

According to the transmittal […]

First Volume of Public Diplomacy History Released

Reading Room of the Allies. Interior. Partial View. Note the American flags and War poster. Serious looking gentleman in shirt sleeves is the Manager. (U.S. Department of State)

7 December 2014. The State Department’s Office of the Historian released this week the first volume in its series of public diplomacy history, dealing with U.S. […]

Russia Cancels FLEX Youth Exchange Program

Lisa Choate, at February 4 PDAA lunch program (A. Kotok)

5 October 2014. Russia canceled its participation in an American high-school exchange program after a teenage Russian boy in Michigan sought political asylum claiming fear of persecution at home for being gay. The Future Leaders Exchange or FLEX program that sponsored the child’s […]