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COVID-19: Is ethnicity relevant?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-03-20)
On 19 March 2020 Mawbima published a news item on COVID-19 that emphasised irrelevant details including the ethnicity of a patient and (negative) details about patients
කාන්තාවන් පමණක් ඉස්මතු වනුයේ මන්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-28)
Several articles published in July only highlighted the women in certain groups. An aruna article fairly depicted both the number of male and female suspects.
ආබාධිත බව ජනමාධ්යකින් ඉදිරිපත් කළ යුත්තේ මේ ආකාරයෙන්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-28)
A Mawbima article published on April 28, 2020 referred to a couple using the term "golu"(dumb). According to OHCHR guidelines the term "kathana abadha"(speech impairment)—used in the article's body—is more appropriate.
එකම පුවතක්, පුවත්පත් තුනක්, අබිරහස් දෙකක්!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-06-26)
Conflicting reports published on June 22, 2020
Aruna: The home security guard and dog of SLPP candidate have died.
Mawbima and Divaina: The home security and dog at a house in Thalawathugoda/a journalist's rented ...
පුවත්පත් දෙකක්, එක පුවතක්, ආචාරධාර්මික එක් වාර්තාකරණයක් !
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-08)
On July 07, 2020 an article published in Mawbima singled out the women in a group that was arrested. An article on the same incident in Aruna did not single out women.
කොවිඩ්-19 කුමන්ත්රණ කතා!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-15)
According to this article published by Mawbima on April 10, 2020 Prof. Lieber was arrested for claiming that China paid a US scientist to create COVID-19. However, fact-checkers confirmed the arrest wasn’t connected to COVID-19.
"දූෂණය"වෙනුවට "ලිංගික අපරාධය" හෝ "ලිංගික අපයෝජනය" වැනි යෙදුම් වඩාත් යෝග්ය වේ
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-20)
Several articles published on July 20, 2020 used the term "දූෂණය" to refer to sexual abuse.
දිවි අහිමි කර ගැනීම් වාර්තා කිරීම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-07)
An article published by Mawbima on July 07,2020 violated media ethics guidelines for reporting on suicide.
පාඨකයා නොමඟ යවන සුළු වාර්තාකරණයක් නොවේද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-06-09)
A Dinamina editorial & Mawbima article—published on June 08, 2020—criticised EC member Hoole for allegedly insulting the Sinhala language by identifying it as a language in which garbage is written. Hoole reportedly made ...
දිවි අහිමි කර ගැනීම් වාර්තා කිරීම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-07)
An article relating to suicide published in Mawbima on July 07,2020 failed to include helplines, and also described the method used