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Russian broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and their coverage of Soviet Jewry.
Languages English, Russian
Based in: Austin, TX
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Contact mark.pomar@gmail.com
Biography
Mark G. Pomar has had a distinguished career in academia, US government, and the NGO/foundation sector. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas and teaches a graduate course on global broadcasting at the Moody School of Journalism (University of Texas, Austin). Mark is also writing a book about international broadcasting, focusing on the Russian broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Liberty. From 1975 to 1982, Mark taught Russian Studies at the University of Vermont and later was a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington) (1993-94_and an Adjunct Professor at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University (Washington campus) (2006-2007) From 1982 to 1986, Mark worked as Assistant Director of the Russian Service at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Munich) and as Director of the USSR Division at the Voice of America. He edited programs and was an on-air broadcaster. From 1986 to 1993 Mark was the Executive Director of the Board for International Broadcasting, a Federal agency that oversaw international broadcasting. In that capacity, he reviewed programming, negotiated international agreements for radio transmission (Portugal, Spain, Israel), and testified in Congress on policies, budgets and broadcasts of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. From 1994 to 2008, Pomar was a senior executive and President of IREX, a large US international nonprofit organization operating in 33 countries that administered programs in education, public policy, and media. He worked closely with the Department of State and USAID on projects in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Middle East. From 2008 to 2017, Mark was the founding CEO and President of the US - Russia Foundation (USRF), a private US foundation based in Moscow that ran programs in entrepreneurship, media, and the rule-of-law. Mark has a PhD in Russian Studies from Columbia University and a BA (summa cum laude) from Tufts University.
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