Steve Silverwood wrote in message et...
My short list of excellent news sources on shortwave:

BBC
Voice of America
Radio Netherlands
Deutsche Welle
Radio Taiwan
NHK Radio Japan
Radio Canada International
Radio Australia
Radio New Zealand International
Voice of Russia

Those all give pretty straightforward news reports. For news reports
that are somewhat slanted, you'll find Radio Havana Cuba and China Radio
International interesting.

Voice of Russia (formerly Radio Moscow) would have been in the
"slanted" list but they have been doing a commendable job in recent
years of striving for fair-and-balanced reporting. They're not quite at
the point where the VOA or BBC are, but that's probably because of
external (i.e., government) influences and not any fault of the
journalists themselves. Good job, guys!

You forgot Voice of Korea. They may suffer from the same problems
that linger at VoR, but *dang* they're hilarious to listen to.

Amazingly, China Radio International, while still soft-pedaling its
own internal national problems, is much better than decades ago. They
seem, on the surface anyway, to be aiming more for gentle persuasion
and ideological moderation rather than hard-line bullyragging.

A special note for the Aussies and Kiwis - they insert a wry sense of
fun into all their "live" programming that is irresistible, and
reminiscent of the good old days when everyone wasn't so PC and knew a
laugh was worth a few-bucks-worth of wattpower. The news from down
under is always worth a listen just for the quips. Sort of like Radio
Nederland and RCI were 20 years ago.

Bruce Jensen