对外援助一直是美国对别国施加影响,实现其外交政策的重要手段。援助外国媒体早在上世纪七八十年代已经成为美国对外援助项目中的重要内容,其援助的对象包括国外媒体机构、记者协会、高校新闻学系、新闻培训机构以及新闻记者等;援助范围覆盖全球70多个国家和地区。 Foreign aid has always been an important means by which the United States exert influence on other countries and realize its foreign policy. Aid to foreign media as early as the seventies and eighties of the last century has become an important part of the U.S. foreign aid program. Its assistance includes foreign media agencies, press associations, journalism departments of colleges and universities, news training institutions and journalists, etc. The scope of assistance covers More than 70 countries and regions in the world.