By Sam Magdy and Ellen Knickmeyer | Associated press
Cairo: The head of an online online television funded by the United States and an online communication medium that claims an audience of 30 million people in the Middle East and North Africa, most staff and reduced TV programming on Saturday, focusing Trump’s sponsorships or Hovpspons “reduced funds.
In notices to Hurra News employees about their layoffs, Chief Jeffrey Gedmin said he had resigned from the freezing of the US administration. UU. In the short term for the money approved by Congress for the Hurra and his sister orization of the funded Arab language.
Gedmin accused Kari Lake, appointment of President Donald Trump for the American government agency that supervises Al Hurra, Voice of America and other news programs financed by the United States abroad, or dodging his efforts to talk to him about the cut.
“I have to conclude that she is deliberate looking at the money we need to pay you, our dedicated and hardworking staff,” Gedmin said in the compensation letters obtained by Associated Press and the father of the hurd -transmission net.
The White House did not immediately respond to a comment request on Saturday.
Mohamed Al-Sabagh, an Egyptian journalist who works on the Hurra News website in Dubai, told AP that all website staff and television channel that receive emails that end their contracts.
Al-Hurra is the last media funded by the United States government, after the voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and others to cut personnel and services in the midst of what the media say is the movement of the Trump administration and the Department of Musk Governorate Assignments.
Lake, designated to supervise the United States media agency for global media, describes that its agency is consumed by a “giant rot” requesting the destruction and reconstruction of the agency.
News organizations backed by the United States were established from the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union. Its designated objective was to provide objective news about the United States and other issues abroad, or people under authoritarian governments without access to a free press.
The George W. Bush administration already created the Hurra in 2003, the same year that the invasion of its Iraq administration overthrew the leader of that country. Hurra journalists covered the occupation of the United States and the sectarian and extremist violence that followed, with some dying at work in the Arab spring of 2011 and other political changes in the Middle East of Acros.
Although Hurra over the years faced charges of both conservatives and liberals in the United States, it was one of the few points of sale in its region that provided space for the freedom of the press and speech.
In his employee note, Getmin said the organization would retain a couple of boxes and an online “presence” as the Court fights for cuts in the United States courts.
“It makes no sense,” Gedmin wrote, “silence the voice of the United States in the Middle East.”
Knickmeyer reported from Washington.
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