During the month of August 2018, Sunday Divaina, Divaina, Thinakkural and Mawbima published articles, which contained the ethical violation irrelevantly and negatively highlighting the ethnicity of persons. This also ...

In the month of August 2022, articles published in Lankadeepa, Lakbima, Divaina, and Mawbima included derogatory terms such as "kuddo" (කුඩ්ඩෝ), “kuddek” (කුඩ්ඩෙක්), “kudda” (කුඩ්ඩා), "dooshanaya" (දූෂණය) and "ganikawa" ...

On 12 July 2018, Mawbima published an article using the derogatory term "දුෂණය" (Dooshanaya) to describe sexual violence. It also disclosed the relationship between victim and perpetrator/suspect when reporting the incident.

In the month of July 2018, Lankadeepa (5 July 2018) and Divaina (11 July 2018) published articles disclosing personal information of a minor suspect in a way that disrupts minor’s school life. Also, the personal information ...

In the month of July 2018, articles published in Mawbima, Lakbima and Sunday Divaina contained misleading headlines, inaccurate information and reporting in a manner that may lead to communal disharmony which is a violation ...

In the month of July 2018, Mawbima published several articles in a way that evoke fear and shock, thus does not comply with the media ethical guidelines. This entry also includes an infographic which emphasize the importance ...

The article published in Mawbima on 03 July contained the ethical violation of not using a person first language to describe a person with disabilities, which leads to discrimination. Derogatory term “abadhithaya” (ආබාධිතයා), ...

This infographic shows how new penalties for traffic violations have been reported in several Sinhala newspapers (i.e. Mawbima, Divaina, Lakbima, Ada and Dinamina) published on 11.07.2018. It was observed that newspapers ...

In the month of June 2018, Sunday Lankadeepa, Lakbima, Lankadeepa, Divaina and Mawbima reported suicides without including suicide helplines while including method of suicide, giving prominence to suicide in the heading, ...

On 1 June 2018, Lakbima published an article disclosing personal information of a minor suspect in a way that disrupts minor’s school life. Divaina article that published on 20 June 2022 also contained detailed personal ...