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Inappropriate Reporting on Suicide
(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
(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"?
(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
(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?
(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
(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?
(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
(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
(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
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-05-03)This infographic depicts SL's rank/position in the World Press Freedom index. -
(අ)පක්ෂපාතී සිරස්තලයක්?
(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?
(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?
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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?
(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. -
අගමැතිවරයා සහ චීන හිටපු විදෙස් කටයුතු ඇමතිවරයාගේ ඡායාරූප: සදොස් ඡායාරූප සහ නිවැරදිකිරීම්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-10)An edited and false photograph of our prime minister and the former minister of foreign affairs of China by the Tamil newspaper Virakesari and the Daily FT on 11th and 10th of October 2020 respectively. But DailyFT apologised ... -
අඟුරුවාතොට මරණය: "රූමත්" හෝ "හැඩකාර" බව අදාළ වන්නේද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)On 23rd and 24th July 2023, Sinhala newspapers Aruna, Sathi Aga Aruna, Divaina and Lankadeepa reported on the death of a mother and her baby. The papers referred to the mother's appearance by using words such as "රූමත්" ...