Druk Yoedzer (''DY'') is a private newspaper in
Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...
. It is a
Dzongkha
Dzongkha (; ) is a Sino-Tibetan language that is the official and national language of Bhutan. It is written using the Tibetan script.
The word means "the language of the fortress", from ' "fortress" and ' "language". , Dzongkha had 171,080 n ...
-English weekly newspaper (Saturday). It was founded by Sonam Rinchen. As Bhutan has begun developing its private media sector, ''Druk Yoedzer'' is also one that has been recently opened.
The weekly ''Druk Yoedzer'' was launched on 19 February 2011, the eighth newspaper in the country. The paper covers national and local news, entertainment, custom and religion, sports, and Dzongkha news. ''Druk Yoedzer'' has six reporters, all were trained by Bhutan Media Foundation (BMF). It has sixteen pages and is available every Saturday for ngultrum 10. The main objectives of ''Druk Yoedzer'' are to focus more on developing Dzongkha journalism and to promote and preserve the national language Dzongkha.
Circulation
''Druk Yoedzer'' circulates 2000 papers in total and only 545 papers are circulated in Thimphu.
Personnel
''Druk Yoedzer'' has six journalists trained by the experienced journalists of the country. They were also given a short duration of training by Bhutan Media Institute under the funding of the Royal Government of Bhutan.
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External links
Dzongkha Development Commission
Newspapers published in Bhutan
Dzongkha-language newspapers