The article published in Daily Mirror on 5 May 2018 disclosed the relationship between victim and perpetrator/suspect when reporting on an incident of sexual violence. On 17 May Lakbima published an article using the ...

In reporting MP Patali Champika Ranawaka's statement made on 2 November 2018, at the party leaders meeting, Sunday Mawbima (11 November 2018) used inappropriate language and defamatory reporting which is a violation of ...

In the month of January 2018, articles published in Sunday Lankadeepa, Dinamina, Divaina, Lakbima, Rivira, Mawbima, Ada, Ceylon Today and Daily News contained misleading headlines and inaccurate reports about the statement ...

During the month of October 2018, several articles published in Mawbima, and Divaina contained ethical violations pertaining to gender discrimination; highlighting gender, only highlighting women when both women and men ...

On 2 December 2018, Sunday Divaina, Sunday Mawbima, Sunday Lankadeepa and Silumina published articles disclosing personal information and images of minor suspects which is a violation of media ethical guidelines.

In the month of January 2018, Daily News, Daily Mirror, Ceylon Today, The Island, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Lakbima, Rivira, Dinamina, Sunday Divaina and Virakesari reported suicides without including suicide helplines while ...

In the month of April 2018, articles published in Mawbima, Sunday Mawbima, Daily Mirror, Daily News and Thinakaran, contained ethical violation of using derogatory terms such as "kuddek" (කුඩ්ඩෙක්), “sudda”(සුද්දා), ...

The articles published in Mawbima and Lakadeepa on 03 July 2018 have used the derogatory term "braseelaya" (බ්‍රසීලයා) to refer to a foreigner of Brazilian nationality which is a violation of media ethical guidelines. ...

On 18 November 2018, Sunday Times published an article headlined, 'Angry Sirisena breaks the pillars of democracy', which begins with an extracti from the book ‘Janadhipathi Thaththa = ජනාධිපති තාත්තා’. The writer claims ...

In reporting on the female university student who took her own life due to ragging, Sunday Divaina that published on 9 September 2018, used inappropriate language (වනචර නවක වධ බැල්ලියන්) and defamatory reporting which is ...