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    • Ethics Eye: Bukiya - 27 February 2020 

      Verite Research (2020-02-27)
      ඉරිදා මව්බිම පුවත්පතේ පළවන 'බුකිය' නම් වන කොලමෙන් උපුටා ගත් කොටස් කිහිපයක් මෙහි දක්වා ඇත. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් අවධානයට පාත්‍ර විය යුතු කරුණු කිහිපයක් සාකච්ඡා කෙරේ.

    • General Election 2020: TV News Coverage of Political Parties - 13-17 July 2020 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-21)
      Prime time TV news coverage afforded to the main political parties contesting the 2020 General Elections by selected TV Sinhala language TV channels in the period 13-17 July, 2020

    • Inappropriate Reporting on Suicide 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-30)
      On April 28, 2020 and April 29, 2020 Aruna, Ada, and Mawbima reported on suicide in a manner that did not comply with media ethics guidelines

    • International Women's Day: Ethical Reporting on women 

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      Ethics Eye       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-03-07)
      On International Women's Day, ethical guidelines were published on a post to create awareness on reporting on women.

    • Is it appropriate to use the term "mistress"? 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-01-03)
      On 31 December 2019 Daily Mirror published a news item which included the term "mistress". Ethics Eye pointed out that The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a prominent international media and communications organisation ...

    • Negative Terms 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05-01)
      On April 30, 2020 Mawbima and Lankadeepa published articles containing the term "Kudda" in their headlines

    • The news on ITN: Is there a basis for it? Is it not misleading? 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-02)
      On 26 March 2020, ITN's 09.30 pm news ran a segment on the presidential pardon granted to Sunil Rathnayake. In this segment, Rathnayake's arrest and sentence was described as being part of the alleged 'Ranaviru Dadayama' ...

    • Newspapers that have violated ethical guidelines when reporting on COVID-19: 2020 April 01-30 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-30)
      On 30 April 2020 Ethics Eye published an infographic summarising the number of times Aruna, Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima (and their Sunday variants) violated the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Healthcare ...

    • Proposal to suspend standing orders defeated or the motion against the president deafeated? 

      Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05-19)
      On the proposal to suspend Parliament Standing Orders and debate motion against President, The Morning, Ceylon Today, Daily Mirror, and The Island correctly identified in their front page headlines that it was the proposal ...

    • Sinhala Press Coverage of COVID-19: January-March 2020 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-03)
      On 03 April 2020 Ethics Eye published an infographic summarising the number of times Aruna, Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima (and their Sunday variants) violated the media ethics guidelines while reporting on COVID-19

    • TV news broadcasts of Covid-19 travel restriction violations 

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      Ethics Eye       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-06-09)
      In the month of June 2021, Derana, Hiru, ITN, Rupavahini, Swarnavahini and Sirasa broadcast Covid-19 travel restriction violations in various manners.

    • World Press Freedom Day 

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      Ethics Eye       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-05-03)
      This infographic depicts SL's rank/position in the World Press Freedom index.

    • (අ)පක්ෂපාතී සිරස්තලයක්? 

      Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02-22)
      In the month of February, an article published in Sunday Aruna used a prejudicial and judgmental heading that views the "Jehovah" community in negative light based on their beliefs and practices.

    • (අ)සංවේදී සිරස්තල සහ වාර්තාකරණ? 

      Ethics Eye (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 ...

    • අකැප ඇඳුම් හා අකැප ආහාර? 

      Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-03-31)
      In the month of March 2022, Divaina published an article about a woman who offered food to the theras at a temple. It criticised the woman, saying that her attire was inappropriate. This amounts to unethical media behaviour, ...

    • අගතිකාරී ආකල්ප සහ වාර්ගිකත්වය 

      Ethics Eye (Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-09)
      In the month of November 2021, an article published in Sunday Aruna highlighted the ethnicity of a woman as "Tamil" and promoted social prejudices surrounding skin colour by describing her physical appearance and skin colour.

    • අගතිගාමී සිරස්තල 

      EthicsEye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-08-10)
      Several articles from August, 2020 mentioned headlines as "Corona mothers" but some articles these persons were appropriately described as "mothers who contracted COVID19.

    • අගතිගාමී සිරස්තල 

      EthicsEye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-08-05)
      During August, 2020 article published in Lankadeepa mentioned headlines mentioned "Corona mothers" and some articles these persons were appropriately described as "mothers who contracted #COVID19"

    • අගතිගාමී සිරස්තල 

      EthicsEye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-08-19)
      Article from August, 2020 mentioned headline as "Corona Student" but in the content of the article, person were appropriately described as "student who contracted COVID19.

    • අගතියට පත් වූ අය හට වරද පැටවීමක්? 

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      Ethics Eye       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-08-08)
      On the 6 August 2023 article published in Sunday Aruna used the term "රූමත්" (Rumath) to highlight physical appearance where it was irrelevant and blamed the murder victims, stating they lacked a good character certificate.