Bhutan media group seeks international support

Bhutan media group seeks international support http://www.mediahelpingmedia.org/content/view/519/1/

Monday, 02 November 2009

Trainee journalists on one of the courses - Photo Mona Rath Pokhrel A media support group, run by Bhutanese journalists living in exile, is looking for international support in order to continue to develop its media training programmes and to campaign for media freedom in the region. The Media Network Bhutan (MNB), run entirely by volunteers, is approaching its third anniversary. It claims its training courses have helped hundreds of Bhutanese journalists living in the refugee camps in Nepal. The aim now is to bring together the overseas Bhutanese refugee communities that have been resettled in the West in order to strengthen their media skills and to mobilise them in a campaign for media freedom within Bhutan.