Kinley Dorji

[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.

When Dorji left Kuensel in 2009 to take up his government position, journalist Kencho Wangdi paid homage to his leadership: 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 forwardly…He was Kuensel’s intellectual conscience...He loathed a sensationally written story, or even a headline.

[5] He lives in Thimphu with his three children and wife, Siok San Pek-Dorji, the founding executive director of Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy.

On 9 December 2006,[6] Dorji was awarded the prestigious Royal Red Scarf by the Fourth King, the Bhutanese equivalent of a knighthood, which conferred on him the title Dasho (Sir).