Newsmax executive named as Voice of America’s deputy

Voice of America’s parent agency on Wednesday named Christopher Wallace, a news director at the pro-Trump Newsmax network and a former Fox News producer, as the next deputy director of the international broadcaster, according to an internal email obtained by The New York Times.

The appointment came a day after a federal judge nullified nearly all actions that the Trump administration had taken to shutter Voice of America, a government-funded news group, and ordered more than 1,000 journalists and support staff members to return to work. President Trump had pushed to dismantle Voice of America, which was founded in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda, calling it “Voice of radical America.”

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