On July 15, 2020 various newspapers carried conflicting reports on an individual who died while fleeing when brought to a hospital for COVID-19 testing. Divaina and The island reported that the individual "jumped" to his ...

Several articles published in June 2020 violated media ethics guidelines for reporting on suicide.

Articles published in May 2020 Lankadeepa, Aruna and Mawbima used the term "mas wedda" which carried negative connotations.

Several articles published in June 2020 violated media ethics guidelines for reporting on suicide

Several media outlets published May 2020 claimed that EC Member Hoole's daughter violated quarantine regulations. However, only some media outlets reached out to Hoole for a comment. Similarly, only some media outlets ...

An Aruna article published on April 21, 2020 carried the following headline: “Bandaranayake Street burnt by the fire a woman ignited” which highlights a woman for ‘spreading’ coronavirus in her street.

The headlines of these Sunday Divaina and Aruna articles published in May 2020 refer to 'tiger (i.e. LTTE) celebrations'. However, the contents of the articles clarify that they are referring to events in commemoration ...

In May 2020 articles published in Mawbima, Lankadeepa, Divaina and Aruna referred to persons addicted to drugs using terms such as "kuddan" and "mathkudu loleen" which carry negative connotations.

An article published in Aruna on July 12, 2020 negatively labeled a group of persons as කුඩ්ඩන් and blame them for the resurgence of COVID-19

Some articles published on July 20, 2020 used terms with negative connotations to refer to certain groups