President Trump’s nominee to oversee the parent agency of Voice of America, a government-funded news group that operates in countries with limited press freedoms, said on Thursday that if the Senate confirmed her, she would bring back many of the journalists who had been placed on paid leave since the early weeks of Mr. Trump’s second term.
The statement by the nominee, Sarah B. Rogers, during her confirmation hearing signaled a stark reversal of Mr. Trump’s earlier efforts to shutter Voice of America and other federally funded news groups. The turnaround came after lawmakers voiced for months a rare bipartisan opposition to the dramatic cuts to the newsrooms, which they believe are critical to counter misinformation and propaganda campaigns by American adversaries like Russia, China and Iran with factual reporting.
“I’m definitely going to bring back more of them,” Ms. Rogers said of the journalists while refraining from making exact commitments. “We do need to reform and modernize, but we should see people coming back to work.”
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