Browsing Media by Subject "Unethical reporting"
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(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05-01)On April 30, 2020 Mawbima and Lankadeepa published articles containing the term "Kudda" in their headlines -
(අ)සංවේදී සිරස්තල සහ වාර්තාකරණ?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-09)During the month of September 2022, Sunday Aruna reported of a woman abandoning a baby by calling her a demon (‘Mohini’), which is insensitive reporting. Additionally, Hiru TV also reported of a murder while questioning ... -
අද ජාත්යන්තර කාන්තා දිනයයි : කාන්තාව: ඍණාත්මක සන්දර්භයන්, නිෂේධනාත්මක නිරුපණයන්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-03-07)A comparative data analysis of the SInhala newspaper reportage on women discrimination in 2019 and 2020 -
අනන්යතාව අනාවරණය කළ සහ නොකළ වාර්තාකරණ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10-03)On 29 September 2022, several newspapers reported of an alleged attack by the alleged son of a MP. Aruna, Mawbima and Lankadeepa revealed the concerned MPs name, while Dinamina did not. -
එක් සිදුවීමක්, සිරස්තල කිහිපයක්!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-09-27)On 26 September 2022 and 27 September 2022 Dinamina, Divaina and Lankadeepa published articles about the same incident (of asking the former first lady Ayoma Rajapaksa for a bribe), while referring to the person allegedly ... -
කිලිටි වූ යන අදහස දෙන 'දූෂණය - කෙලෙසීම' වැනි වදන් වෙනුවට 'ලිංගික අපරාධය - ලිංගික අපයෝජනය' යන යෙදුම් වඩාත් යෝග්ය වේ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-09)During the month of September 2022, Dinamina reported of a sex crime against a minor by calling it ‘dooshanaya’ which gives the notion that the victim is polluted, while Ada reported it calling it a ‘lingika apayojanaya’ ... -
ගැටළු සහගත වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-06-03)In the month of June 2022, the newspapers Lankadeepa and Aruna reported the same incident with two different descriptions. According to Lankadeepa the victim was stabbed in the stomach, while Aruna reported that the victim ... -
ගැටළු සහගත, වගකීම් විරහිත වාර්තාකරණ සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-02-07)On 4th of February 2023 Dinamina published reported of an incident where an individual who is referred to as an election contestant of the NPP (National People's Power) has allegedly hit another person, without any sources, ... -
දුම්රියේදි සොයා ගැණුනු බිළිඳා: රූපවාහිනී මාධ්ය වාර්තා කිරීම්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-03-13)On 11 March 2023, Rupavahini, TV Derana, Sirasa, Swarnawahini, Hiru TV, Siyatha TV reported on a baby who was found on a train. This post identifies different ways in which the TV channels reported the incident, focusing ... -
නිරවද්ය සහ සාවද්ය වාර්තාකරණ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-07)In the month of July 2019, news items published in Silumina and Sunday Mawbima (21 July 2019), reported different information on the same news i.e. about Dr Shafi’s case. Also, an article published in Dinamina (15 July ... -
නිරවද්ය සහ සාවද්ය වාර්තාකරණය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-05)During the month of May 2019 news published in Divaina, Mawbima, Ada, Lankadeepa violated following media ethical guidelines: misleading headlines, reporting without sources and inaccurate information. Meanwhile, Lakbima ... -
නිරවද්ය සහ සාවද්ය වාර්තාකරණය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-09)In the months of August and September 2019, Divaina has used a misleading headline and inaccurate information when reporting about the dismissal of petitions against the death penalty and the news of the nomination for the ... -
"නිවැරදි කිරීම" - මෙය ප්රමාණවත් ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-08)On 26 August 2019, Mawbima published an article quoting Speaker Karu Jayasuriya which was later clarified by the Speaker’s Media Unit as a false report. The article which contained the clarification was published on 27 ... -
පක්ෂග්රාහී වාර්තාකරණ සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-09)During the month of September 2022, Hiru, Sirasa, Siyatha, Swarnawahini, Rupavahini, Derana and ITN reported on the Board Level Agreement with the IMF in various and possibly biased ways, and only Hiru, Sirasa, Siyatha and ... -
බාලවයස්කරුවන්ගේ අනන්යතාවය වක්රාකාරයෙන් හෙලිකිරීමක්?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-04-05)On 5th of April 2023 an article published in the Lankadeepa newspaper revealed the identity of a woman who had physically abused two minors, including her daughter, for engaging in sexual activity. This disclosure also ... -
බුදු රුව සහිත සාරියකින් සැරසුණු කාන්තාව පිළිබඳ පුවත: සිදුවීම් වාර්තකරණයද? පූර්ව විනිශ්චය ලබාදීම්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-09-11)On September 11, 2020 Aruna, Lankadeepa, Mawbima and Divaina reported on a suspect who was arrested for wearing a saree with the face of Buddha printed on it. These newspapers interpreted the news in different ways, where ... -
භාවාතිශය සිරස්තල?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-09-16)On 14 September 2022, Dinamina published an article which was also read out in Derana Aruna containing the ethical violation of sensational reporting, by using a sensationalist headline when reporting on an unconfirmed ... -
මත් වීමට භාවිතා කරන ඖෂධ නමින් සඳහන් කිරීම පුවතට අවශ්ය ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-09-05)On 02 September 2022, Aruna published an article which contained the ethical violation of irresponsible reporting by revealing the names of addictive drugs when reporting on an incident of a group of youth in Badulla being ... -
වගකීම් විරහිත, ගැටළු සහගත වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-02-12)On 12th February 2023, Sunday Divaina published an article claiming that the USA funds Sri Lankan protests against the government, with no verifiable sources. -
වඩාත් සුදුසු හා සංවේදී සිරස්තල (ය) ලෙස ඔබ තෝරා ගන්නේ කුමක් ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-04)On the 3rd of August 2023, articles published in Lankadeepa, Dinamina and Mawbima had reported on the death of a Corporal in an insensitive manner.