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.

Several articles published in June 2020 used terms connoting "pollution" to refer to survivors of sexual assault

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

A Lankadeepa article published on June 04, 2020 carried the following headline: "3 including a Tamil journalist from Hatton to self-quarantine"

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 ...

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 ...

In the month of June 2021, articles published in Divaina, Mawbima, and Lankadeepa used derogatory terms such as ගණිකා, කැත වැඩක්, and කොරෝනා කතක් that violate media ethics.

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.

On July 30, 2020 articles published in Lankadeepa referred to persons addicted to drugs using terms such as "kuddan" which carry negative connotations.