MEMBER PROFILES
Your name:
Tenzin Peldon
Location:
Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, Northern
India
I was born in Dharamsala, a small town in
Himachal Pradesh, Northern India on 14th
June 1975.
I’m a senior reporter at Voice of Tibet.
Although Tibet is my home country, I have
never been there or seen it. My parents fled
Tibet in 1959 when Communist China invaded
Tibet and they eventually settled in
Dharamsala. So I’m a second generation
Tibetan working in exile for my home
country.
Voice of Tibet is a Tibetan radio service
that was established by 3 Norwegian Non
Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in 1996.
The editorial office is in Dharamsala and
the head office is in Oslo, Norway.
Voice of Tibet airs 45-minute programmes
daily in both Tibetan and Chinese to Tibet
and China as well as India, Bhutan and
Nepal.
Even though I had a huge interest in news
broadcasting as a child, it was only by
sheer chance that I became a
reporter/broadcaster with Voice of Tibet. I
didn't have any formal education in
journalism before I joined Voice of Tibet. I
am who I am today as result of what I
learned from my colleagues and from my
experience of working at this radio station
for the past 8 years.
I became an IAWRT member in 1998, the year I
joined Voice of Tibet. I remember attending
the 28th conference of IAWRT in 1999, which
was held in New Delhi, India. I was able to
attend the conference because Delhi is quite
nearby and there were no budgetary problems.
Since then I haven’t been able to attend any
conferences but being an IAWRT member has
opened the gate to the outside world. I’ve
met so many women journalists from around
the world and gained an insight into how
they work. I was also able to show a video
on our radio service and was able to speak
about Tibet and its tragic situation. I know
there are so many things that I can still
learn from IAWRT and I hope to use these
whenever the opportunity arises.
Voice of Tibet provides unbiased information
and news to the Tibetans living under
Chinese oppression in Tibet; it helps to
preserve the threatened Tibetan culture; to
educate the Tibetans internationally; to
acknowledge human rights; to inform them
about democracy and the democratic
institutions of the Tibetan exiled
community, and most important of all to act
as a bridge between Tibetans in Tibet and
Tibetans in exile.
My DREAM is to stretch my capabilities as a
journalist even more and be able to say,
"This is Tenzin Peldon for Voice of Tibet
reporting from Lhasa" some good day!! (Lhasa,
the capital city of Tibet)
RELEVANT INTERNET SITES
Voice of Tibet -
http://www.vot.org/
The Government of Tibet in Exile -
http://www.tibet.com/
International Tibet Independence Movement -
http://www.rangzen.org/ |
Tenzin Peldon
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