Kinley Dorji
Dasho Kinley Dorji (Dzongkha: ཀུན་ལེགས་རྡོ་རྗེ་; Wylie: Kun-legs Rdo-rje) was Bhutan's first rained journalist who became founder, then Managing Director and Editor in Chief of Kuensel, Bhutan's national newspaper. In 2009 he became Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Communications.[1][2]
Dorji was sent to Australia by the Fourth King to study journalism in the 1980s, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Mitchell College, now Charles Sturt University, situated in country Bathurst. He also completed a Master of Journalism at Columbia University in New York, and, in 2007, was awarded a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University for his development of media in emerging democracies. In 2019 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from University of Sydney for his contribution to global journalism.[3]
He published Bhutan’s first book on Literary Journalism, titled Within the Realm of Happiness, which includes 13 personal essays on Bhutanese culture.[4]
He has been a strong proponent of Gross National Happiness (GNH) as an alternative for Human Development.[5]
He currently lives in Thimphu with his three children and wife.
On 9 December 2006,[6] Kinley was awarded the prestigious Royal Red Scarf by the Fourth King, the Bhutanese equivalent of a knighthood, which confers on him the title Dasho (Sir).
References
- ^ Wangdi, K, 2009, Kuensel, March 28
- ^ Denyer, Simon (24 March 2008). "Tibet trauma set Bhutan on long march to democracy". Reuters. Retrieved 31 December 2010.
- ^ "Honorary awards". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
- ^ Kinley Dorji. (2008). Within the realm of happiness. [Thimphu]: Produced by Siok Sian Pek Dorjee. ISBN 9993675202. OCLC 261404262.
- ^ "Bhutan and Gross National Happiness (GNH)". The Japan Foundation E-mail Magazine. The Japan Foundation. 29 October 2004. Archived from the original on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
- ^ Apfanews
External links
From Bathurst to Bhutan and beyond: meet Andrew Denton and Kinley Dorji: https://www.sydney.edu.au/engage/events-sponsorships/sydney-ideas/2019/dasho-kinley-dorji-and-andrew-denton.html
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