President Trump announced he has selected a well-known conservative media monitoring specialist to head the troubled U.S. Agency for Global Media, the panel that oversees federal broadcasting outlets.

Mr. Trump revealed in a post on Truth Social that L. Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, was his nominee to be chief executive officer for USAGM. The position requires Senate confirmation. The agency has come under fire from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over corruption allegations.

“Brent will bring some much needed change to the U.S. Agency for Global Media,” Mr. Trump said.

Mr. Bozell’s Media Research Center has been an outspoken critic of mainstream media, which for years has targeted Mr. Trump with what the president has said is unfair criticism.

Mr. Trump on his first day in office canceled the Biden administration’s succession plan for USAGM, over concerns the agency would block his selection of Kari Lake, a conservative Arizona former television personality who lost a Senate bid in November, to be head of the Voice of America.

The succession plan made the VOA director the acting USAGM chief and thus complicated the new administration’s plans for placing Ms. Lake in charge of VOA.

Earlier this week, the new administration dismissed all board members of the USAGM International Broadcasting Advisory Board, which is in charge of confirming all directors of the federal radio outlets, including VOA, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe and other broadcasters targeting Cuba and the Middle East, according to people familiar with USAGM’s inner workings.

Kenneth Jarin, the broadcasting board chairman, declined to comment on the firings.

A USAGM spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

• Bill Gertz can be reached at bgertz@washingtontimes.com.