Stories about BCMD

Navigating the Bhutanese Media Landscape in a New Democracy

  9 April 2014

The Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy has been helping local society navigate the country's transition into democracy supporting citizens as they participate more active in traditional and online media. The BCMD is also one of RV's grantees expanding its audio podcasting workshops nationwide.

Featured Podcaster: Karma Dupchu

  13 January 2014

Rising Voices gets to know another new podcaster from our grantee project in Bhutan. Karma Dupchu shares his story about an experience that helped launch his interest in audio stories and how he wants to take full advantage of the opportunity.

Featured Podcaster: Jigme Tshewang

  5 January 2014

Rising Voices gets to know Jigme Tshewang, a new podcaster and part of the project organized by the Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy, which is being supported by an RV microgrant. Read Jigme's thoughts on this digital form of storytelling.

Podcasting Democratic Change in Bhutan

  9 August 2013

How can we learn more about the process of democratic transition through the eyes of a small Himalayan nation? One of RV's micograntees this year, The Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy, is leading a project to document the stories of this nascent transition with podcasts.