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Tshering Palden

Last updated: 29 June 2026321 words

Tshering Palden is a Bhutanese journalist who joined the national newspaper Kuensel as a reporter in 2007 and rose to become its news editor and editor-in-chief. He was a 2019 Asia Journalism Fellow at the National University of Singapore.

Tshering Palden is a Bhutanese journalist who has spent his career at Kuensel, Bhutan's national bilingual newspaper. He joined the paper as a reporter in 2007, later became its chief reporter and head of news, and rose to the editorship of the publication.[1][2]

His reporting has concentrated on parliamentary proceedings, governance and national policy. In 2019 he was selected as an Asia Journalism Fellow, a programme run by the Institute of Policy Studies at the National University of Singapore.[1]

Tshering Palden is a common Bhutanese name; this article concerns the Kuensel news editor, not others who share the name.

Career at Kuensel

Tshering Palden joined Kuensel in 2007 and built his career there, working as a reporter before becoming chief reporter and head of news, and then taking on the editorship.[2] By the time of his 2019 fellowship he had more than eleven years of experience in journalism.[1]

Much of his work has covered Bhutan's parliament and its democratic institutions, alongside national policy debates. He has also written about the commercial pressures facing Bhutanese newspapers, noting that several titles closed during the 2010s as government advertising revenue — the main source of newspaper income — contracted.[1]

Education and fellowship

Tshering Palden studied at Sherubtse College in eastern Bhutan from 2004 to 2006, and later studied journalism at Curtin University of Technology in Australia.[2]

In 2019 he was named an Asia Journalism Fellow. The Asia Journalism Fellowship, hosted by the National University of Singapore's Institute of Policy Studies, brings together mid-career journalists from across Asia for a residential programme. During his fellowship he set out to research multimedia storytelling as a possible direction for traditional newspapers facing declining revenue.[1]

See also

References

  1. Bhutan — Asia Journalism Fellowship
  2. Tshering Palden — News Editor at Kuensel (LinkedIn)

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