Michael Pack

Mr. Pack, who is a close ally of Stephen K. Bannon, the former campaign strategist and White House adviser for Mr. Trump, was confirmed on June 4 2020 by the Republican-controlled Senate. Democratic leaders had opposed Mr. Pack’s confirmation. Many journalists at Voice of America and other organizations overseen by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which Mr. Pack now leads as chief executive, have been nervous about Mr. Pack taking the reins and have asked whether he intends to maintain editorial independence from the White House and other parts of the government. The attorney general for the District of Columbia said last month that his office was investigating whether Mr. Pack had illegally enriched himself by sending $1.6 million from the Public Media Lab, a nonprofit group he oversees, to his for-profit film production company. Mr. Pack served as the director of Worldnet — now the television component of the Voice of America — under President George W. Bush and worked at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as a senior executive in its television production division.