Donald Trump has nominated Kari Lake, a longtime ally and former TV anchor who ran unsuccessfully for Arizona governor, to serve as the next US ambassador to Jamaica. If confirmed by the Senate, it would end Lake’s tenure as the key official responsible for Voice of America (VOA), the global media organization created in 1942. In 2024, the US president appointed Lake to lead the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees VOA, following her unsuccessful Senate and gubernatorial campaigns in Arizona, and under the direction of a presidential executive order she moved to fire hundreds of VOA employees, as well as to cut funding for other newsgroups. But staffers challenged those actions, and in March a federal judge ruled that Lake had been unlawfully serving as head of USAGM because she had not been confirmed by the Senate, and voided her actions at the agency, including the mass layoffs.…