Kuensel
Bhutan's national newspaper, tracing its origins to a government bulletin started in 1965 and published as a newspaper since 1986. Kuensel appears in English and Dzongkha, in print and online, and remains the country's paper of record, covering government, the monarchy, development and rural life. The state retains a majority shareholding.
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Is Kuensel left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Kuensel is positioned toward the editorial center of Bhutan's media spectrum, or its orientation is mixed or not consistently classified by the major media-bias assessments. Crosswire groups Bhutan outlets into left, center and right so you can read the same day's events from more than one vantage point: seeing Kuensel beside outlets of a different orientation makes editorial choices — which stories lead, which framing is used, what gets omitted — far easier to spot than reading any single source alone.
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