President-elect Trump has named Kari Lake as the next director of Voice of America, a federally funded U.S. government broadcaster.

“I am pleased to announce that Kari Lake will serve as our next Director of Voice of America. She will be appointed by and will work closely with our next head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which I will announce shortly “Ensure that American values ​​of freedom and liberty are spread FAIRLY and ACCURATELY around the world, “contrary to the lies spread by the fake news media,” Trump wrote in a press release Wednesday evening.

Lake was a longtime Arizona broadcaster who unsuccessfully ran for public office in 2022 and 2024.

Former Republican U.S. Senate candidate for Arizona Kari Lake speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference Argentina in Buenos Aires, Argentina last week. (Anita Pouchard Serra/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Voice of America is an influential broadcaster providing news, information and cultural programming via the Internet, mobile and social media, radio and television.

The station broadcasts in over 40 languages.