Association of Tibetan Journalists
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The Association of Tibetan Journalists is an Tibetan organization in exile
, that was settled in 1997 in Dharamsala
in India
.
Its founding members were:
Tibetan diaspora
The Tibetan diaspora is a term used to refer to the communities of Tibetan people living outside Tibet. Tibetan emigration happened in two waves: one in 1959 following the 14th Dalai Lama's self-exile in India, and the other in the 1980s when Tibet was opened to trade and tourism. The third wave...
, that was settled in 1997 in Dharamsala
Dharamsala
Dharamshala or Dharamsala is a city in northern India. It was formerly known as Bhagsu; it is the winter seat of government of the state of Himachal Pradesh and the district headquarters of the Kangra district....
in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
.
Its founding members were:
- Pema Dhondrup, former producer and editor of the news magazine Sargyur
- Gedun Rabsal, former editor of the Tibet TimesTibet TimesTibet Times is a Tibetan-language newspaper founded in 1996 and published every ten days from Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India, the seat of the 14th Dalai Lama....
- Kunsang Paljor, journalist of the radio station Voice of TibetVoice of TibetVoice of Tibet is an independent radio station based in Norway transmitting shortwave radio programmes in the Tibetan language as well as Mandarin Chinese. The station began broadcasting on 14 May, 1996 and was founded by three Norwegian NGOs: Norwegian Human Rights House, The Norwegian Tibet...
- Ugyen Norbu, former journalist of Radio Free AsiaRadio Free AsiaRadio Free Asia is a private, nonprofit corporation that operates a radio station and Internet news service. RFA was founded by an act of the US Congress and is operated by the Broadcasting Board of Governors . The RFA is supported in part by grants from the federal government of the United States...
- Karma Yeshi, former editor of Rangzen in Tibetan languageTibetan languageThe Tibetan languages are a cluster of mutually-unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering the Indian subcontinent, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent in Baltistan, Ladakh,...
- Pema Lhündrup, former editor of Rangzen in English
- Lobsang WangyalLobsang WangyalLobsang Wangyal is a photojournalist and event producer, based in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala, India. He has been a stringer reporter and photographer for Agence France-Presse for many years....
, independent journalist