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Voice of America (Q228389) (Category:Voice of America) is a multimedia agency, which is part of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM). It is funded by the US Congress.

Copyright

All text, audio and video material produced exclusively by the Voice of America is in the public domain. Credit for any use of VOA material should be given to voanews.com, Voice of America, or VOA. This material is compatible with Commons licensing and may be uploaded. The copyright tag is {{PD-USGov-VOA}} (shorthands: {{VOA}} or {{voa}}). Append {{LicenseReview}} for license review if necessary.

However, VOA content may also contain text, video, audio, images, graphics, and other material copyrighted by third parties, e.g. Agence France-Presse, Associated Press and Reuters. This material is not in the public domain and may not be uploaded without the express permission of the copyright owner.

Audiovisual

VOA operates many YouTube channels, but most if not all original copies of videos and audio recordings are available in mp4 and mp3 on VOA websites. URLs of the files are usually found right below the multimedia player. Fetching files directly from VOA may help to avoid quality loss which may or may not result from conversion to and from YouTube.

Photos

VOA photos are downsized and watermarked, but it is possible to acquire the better original copies.

With reference to File:Jevons Au 201905.jpg. On the source webpage, the best version available seems to be

https://gdb.voanews.com/865DCA74-F7B6-4D85-B769-2BA18BBB018B_w1597_n_r1_st.jpg

However, removing any attributes in the file name will get the actual copy intact with EXIF. That is,

https://gdb.voanews.com/865DCA74-F7B6-4D85-B769-2BA18BBB018B.jpg

Links

This is an incomplete list, sorted alphabetically by English names of the languages. Feel free to add missing websites or edit labels. See https://www.voacantonese.com/navigation/allsites for reference.

Languages	Websites	YouTube channels	Twitter
English	https://www.voanews.com	https://www.youtube.com/user/VOAvideo	https://twitter.com/VOANews
Albanian	https://www.zeriamerikes.com
Burmese	https://burmese.voanews.com
Cantonese 粵語	https://www.voacantonese.com	https://www.youtube.com/user/voacantonese	https://twitter.com/voacantonese https://twitter.com/VOAHK
Chinese 中文	https://www.voachinese.com	https://www.youtube.com/user/VOAchina	https://twitter.com/VOAChinese
Farsi	https://ir.voanews.com
French Français (to Africa)	https://www.voaafrique.com
Indonesian	https://www.voaindonesia.com
Khmer	https://khmer.voanews.com https://www.voacambodia.com		https://twitter.com/voakhmer
Korean 한국어	https://www.voakorea.com		https://twitter.com/VOA_Korean
Kurdish (Kurmanji) Kurdî	https://www.dengeamerika.com	https://www.youtube.com/VOAKurdi	https://twitter.com/VOAKurdi
Kurdish (Sorani) كوردی	https://www.dengiamerika.com	https://www.youtube.com/user/VOAinKurdish	https://twitter.com/VOA_Kurdish
Lao	https://lao.voanews.com
Russian Русский	https://www.golos-ameriki.ru
Serbian	https://www.glasamerike.net
Somali	https://www.voasomali.com
Spanish Español (to Latin America)	https://www.voanoticias.com
Swahili	https://www.voaswahili.com
Thai	https://www.voathai.com
Tibetan	https://www.voatibetan.com	https://www.youtube.com/VOATibetan	https://twitter.com/VOATibetan
Turkish	https://www.amerikaninsesi.com
Ukrainian	https://ukrainian.voanews.com
Urdu	https://www.urduvoa.com
Uzbek	https://www.amerikaovozi.com
Vietnamese	https://www.voatiengviet.com	https://www.youtube.com/user/VOATiengVietVideo	https://twitter.com/VOATiengViet

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