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His editorial was a staple for a generation of educated Bhutanese and it mirrored, with all its problems, the growth of Bhutan. He walked a fine line between criticism and appeasement of the government and many a time was caught in between...The changes came slowly and cautiously but always
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intellectual conscience...He loathed a sensationally written story, or even a headline. He wrote in one of his editorials: ‘All of us who professionally use the media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it to a higher
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He lives in Thimphu with his three children and wife, Siok San Pek-Dorji, the founding executive director of
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for his development of media in emerging democracies. In 2019 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from
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in 2009 to take up his government position, journalist Kencho Wangdi paid homage to his leadership:
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by the Fourth King, the Bhutanese equivalent of a knighthood, which conferred on him the title
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to study journalism in the 1980s, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from
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From Bathurst to Bhutan and beyond: meet Andrew Denton and Kinley Dorji
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He published Bhutan’s first book on Literary Journalism, titled
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On 9 December 2006, Dorji was awarded the prestigious
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Kinley Dorji (footballer)

OLPC XO-1
Dasho
Dzongkha
Wylie
managing director
editor in chief
Kuensel
Bhutan
newspaper
Fourth King
Mitchell College
Columbia University
John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship
Stanford University
University of Sydney
Gross National Happiness
Human Development
Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy
Royal Red Scarf


"Tibet trauma set Bhutan on long march to democracy"
Reuters
the original
"Honorary awards"
Within the realm of happiness
ISBN
9993675202

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