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මෙම පුවතට වාර්ගිකත්වය අදාළ ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-23)On the 21st of August 2023, Dinamina published an article highlighting the ethnicity of the suspects of an incident involving illegal butchery of cattle. -
සැකකරුවන්ගේ අනන්යතාවය හෙළි කළ යුතුද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-22)On the 21st of August 2023 articles published in Dinamina, Mawbima and Aruna reported on a fire that arose in a forest in Athugala due to the negligence of a couple. Dinamina had unethically revealed the identity of the ... -
කාන්තාවන් පිළිබඳව වාර්තා කිරීමේදී, ඒකාකෘතික කිරීම්, කොන් කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-07)On July 14 2022, Dinamina published an article regarding serveral protesters who occupied the Prime Minister's Office being hospitalised in the attempt, which contained the ethical violation of highlighting gender in ... -
වාර්ගිකත්වය ඍණාත්මකව ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-07)On July 27 2022, Dinamina published an article where they have irrelevantly highlighted the ethnicity of a prominent ‘Aragalaya’(struggle) activist, Dhanish Ali, as a ‘Tamil’ national who converted to ‘Islam’ , in a negative ... -
පුද්ගල ප්රථම භාෂාවක් භාවිතය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-07-28)On July 28 2022, an article published in Aruna newspaper used the term “disabled”, thereby discriminating them. A similar article in Dinamina used the reference“people with disabilities” instead, thereby using person-first ... -
දුම්රියේදි සොයා ගැණුනු බිළිඳා: රූපවාහිනී මාධ්ය වාර්තා කිරීම්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-03-13)On 11 March 2023, Rupavahini, TV Derana, Sirasa, Swarnawahini, Hiru TV, Siyatha TV reported on a baby who was found on a train. This post identifies different ways in which the TV channels reported the incident, focusing ... -
අනවශ්ය බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-03)During the month of March 2023, several articles published in Divaina, Lankadeepa, Aruna, Irida Mawbima, Irida Aruna, Irida Lankadeepa, and in TV channels such as TV Derana contained the ethical violations such as using ... -
පුද්ගල ප්රථම භාෂාවක් භාවිතය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-01)During the month January 2023, several articles published in Ada, Mawbima and Irida Mawbima, didn't contain person-first language when referring to persons with disabilities. Some of the terms that were used were "ශ්රවණාබාධිත" ... -
වාර්ගිකත්වයන් අනවශ්ය ලෙස ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(2023-01)During the month of January, 2023, Sinhala press published two stories highlighting the ethnicity of the individual. In the Point Pedro, Jaffna Police Officer related incident Dinamina and Mawbima highlighted the ethnicity ... -
නිරවද්ය සහ විශ්වසනීය මූලාශ්ර නොමැති වාර්තාකරණ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-03)In March 2023, articles published in Aruna, Mawbima, Divaina and Dinamina contained articles with questionable sources. Aruna, Divaina and Mawbima published news regarding the appointment of the Inspector General of Police ... -
එකම පුවතක්, විවිධාකාර සිරස්තල!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-03-29)On 29 March 2023, Dinamina, Aruna, Divaina, Mawbima, Ada, Lankadeepa reported on the price reduction of fuel. This post includes the headlines which were included in each newspaper. -
නිරවද්ය පුවත් සහ මූලාශ්ර භාවිතය පිළිබඳව උපදෙස් කිහිපයක්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-01)Here are 7 guidelines to follow when publishing sources and reporting accurate and reliable information. The guidelines encourages journalists to be truthful and publish sources and report reliable information. Further, ... -
මාධ්ය හිමිකාරිත්වය සහ පුවත්: බැඳියාවන් අතර ගැටුමක්?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-03)On 12 and 13 March 2023, Mawbima and Irida Mawbima reported on an incident relating to Tiran Alles being called up to the Human Right Commission. The reportage only includes the title of the minister but not his connection ... -
කාන්තාවන් සහ LGBTQIA+ ප්රජාව ඒකාකෘතික කිරීම්, කොන් කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-02)In February 2023, an exclusive interview on Irida Lankadeepa with an actor included sexist and discriminatory questions. Further, Divaina reported referred to members of the LGBTQIA+ community as "abnormal" and "tom boys". -
වගකීම් විරහිත, ගැටළු සහගත වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-02-12)On 12th February 2023, Sunday Divaina published an article claiming that the USA funds Sri Lankan protests against the government, with no verifiable sources. -
නිෂේධනාත්කම යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-03)During the month of March 2023, articles published in Aruna and Dinamina published several derogatory terms such as "ගුරා", "සුද්දි", which are disrespectful terms to describe people that leads to discriminating individuals ... -
දිවි තොර කරගැනීම් වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-03)During the month of March 2023, several articles in Dinamina, Divaina, Ada, Mawbima, Lankadeepa and Daily Mirror published on suicide, which contained the following ethical violations; describing the method of suicide, not ... -
ලිංගික අපරාධ වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-03)During the months February and March 2023, several articles in Lankadeepa, Aruna, Dinamina, published on sexual crime, which contained the following ethical violations; trivialising and identity reveal. The news reportage ... -
දේශපාලන අර්බුදය, මහජන අරගලය, විරෝධතා ව්යාපාර වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-03)During the months of February and March 2023, there were several strikes and protests by government workers and university students against the government. These infographics show how newspapers (i.e. Divaina, Mawbima, ... -
බාලවයස්කරුවන් සම්බන්ධ වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-03)During the month of Mach 2023, articles published in Dinamina, Ada, and Aruna revealed the identity of children by including a picture, revealing the name, age and school of the child. The incidents of revealing child ...