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සිද්ධිය සැහැල්ලුකොට දක්වන භාවාතිශය සිරස්තල සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)On October 14, 2022, Divaina and Ada reported about 3 people being arrested in the Aluthgama area for abducting a 23 year old girl. Divaina had sensationalised the news in a manner which trivialised the crime against the woman. -
දුස්තොරතුරු හඳුනාගැනීම, දුස්තොරතුරු වලින් ආරක්ෂා වීම සඳහා වැදගත් වන උපදෙස් කිහිපයක්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)This infographic contains 4 tips to help stop the spread of misinformation online, and to protect oneself from it. The tips include checking before sharing, looking for sources, checking attached photographs, and not ... -
රාජ්‍ය ආයතන නිලධාරිනියන්ට "පහසු ඇඳුමට ඉඩක්" - "ගැලපෙන ඇඳුමට ඉඩක්" - "රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරිනියන්ගේ සාරි ගලවයි" - මේ සිරස්තල පිළිබඳ ඔබේ අදහස?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)There was a difference between headlines published in Dinamina and Ada on September 22, 2022 and Sunday Aruna on October 2, 2022 regarding the circular issued stating that school teachers can report to work in casual attire. ... -
"පිස්සු බෙහෙත්" ද? මානසික රෝගීන්ට ලබාදෙන ඖෂධ ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)On October 18, 2022, an article published in Dinamina contained contradictory information in the headline and the content. While the headline described the medication given to a person with a mental disability as පිස්සු ... -
දිවි තොර කරගැනීම් පිළිබඳ වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)During the month of October 2022, Swarnavahini, Aruna, Derana Aruna, Irida Mawbima, Dinamina, Dharani, Lankadeepa, Daily News and Ada published several articles on suicide, which contained the following ethical violations; ... -
විශ්සවසනීය මූලාශ්‍ර සහිත සහ රහිත වාර්තාකරණ - සරසවි සිසුවෙක්ද? නැති ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)On October 5 Mawbima and on October 6 Divaina and Dinamina violated the media ethical guideline of reporting inaccurate information and not getting information checked via reliable sources. Divaina has referred to the ... -
බාලවයස්කරුවන් පිළිබඳ වාර්තාකරණයේදී අනුගමනය කළ යුතු මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම කවරේද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)Here are 3 guidelines to be followed when reporting on children. The guidelines are meant to support the best intentions of ethical reporters: serving the public interest without compromising the rights of children. It ... -
2022 වසරේ ගෝලීය සාගිනි දර්ශකයේ 64 වන ස්ථානයට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පත්වීම පිළිබඳව රූපවාහිනී වාර්තාකරණය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)On October 17, 2022 Sinhala Primetime news telecasts reported on Sri Lanka being ranked 64th out of 121 countries in the 2022 Global Hunger Index. Siyatha, Sirasa, Hiru and Swarnavahini reported this news while Rupavahini, ... -
එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ 51 වෙනි සැසිවාරයේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට අදාළව සම්මත වුණු යෝජනාව පිළිබඳ වාර්තාකරණය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)On October 7, Sinhala newspapers reported the passing of the resolution on Sri Lanka at the 51st session of UNHRC. Mawbima, Lankadeepa, Dinamina, Aruna and Divaina referred to it as the Geneva resolution against Sri Lanka ... -
දිවි තොර කරගැනීම් සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-01)During the month January 2023, newspapers, Aruna, Lankadeepa, Divaina, Ada, Dinamina, Mawbima, and TV channels, Rupavahini, Derana, Sirasa, Siyatha, Hiru, ITN, Swarnawahini reported several incidents of suicides. Several ... -
ශෙහාන් කරුණාතිලකට බුකර් සම්මානය හිමිවීම පිළිබඳ පළවූ සිරස්තල කීපයක්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)This infographic presents the headlines from October 19, 2022 that were published in Ada, Aruna and Mawbima regarding Shehan Karunatilaka winning the 2022 Booker Prize for his book 'The Seven Moons of Mali Almeida'. -
කොටියා ද? හිටපු එල්ටීටීඊ සාමාජිකයා ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)On October 23, 2022 Divaina and on October 24, 2022 Daily News reported the pardoning of former LTTE cadres who were convicted by courts over LTTE activities including the bombing of former president Chandrika Kumaratunge. ... -
අරගලය සම්බන්ධ පුවත් වාර්තාකරණ සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-07)During the month of July 2022, several newspapers and tv primetime news telecasts covered the political crisis in Sri Lanka, where different media outlets adopted different framings and varied in their coverage of the ... -
ගැටළු සහගත වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-07-08)On July 7, 2022 two articles published in Lankadeepa and Mawbima contained contradictory reporting when it came to the resignation of Nimal Siripala de Silva from his ministerial portfolio. While Lankadeepa reported the ... -
කිලිටි වූ යන අදහස දෙන 'දූෂණය - කෙලෙසීම' වැනි වදන් වෙනුවට 'ලිංගික අපරාධය - ලිංගික අපයෝජනය' යන යෙදුම් වඩාත් යෝග්‍ය වේ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-09)During the month of September 2022, Dinamina reported of a sex crime against a minor by calling it ‘dooshanaya’ which gives the notion that the victim is polluted, while Ada reported it calling it a ‘lingika apayojanaya’ ... -
පක්ෂග්‍රාහී වාර්තාකරණ සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-09)During the month of September 2022, Hiru, Sirasa, Siyatha, Swarnawahini, Rupavahini, Derana and ITN reported on the Board Level Agreement with the IMF in various and possibly biased ways, and only Hiru, Sirasa, Siyatha and ... -
අසංවේදී වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)On October 4, 2022 Aruna and Lankadeepa reported the death of an actor. Aruna had reported with an insensitive while the Lankadeepa headline seemed more appropriate for the news. On October 5 Aruna reported the disappearance ... -
නොමග යවන සුළු වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)On October 30, 2022 Sunday Divaina reported about the pilot shortage in Sri Lanka and how it is running the risk of the provision of air space services for international flights being handed over to foreign countries. The ... -
සමේ වර්ණය ඔස්සේ විදේශිකයන්ව කොන් කිරීමෙන් වළකිමු!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10-05)On 28 September 2022, Lankadeepa published an article where they called foreign women 'sudu nonala' (සුදු නෝනල), which is discrimination based on skin color. -
එක් සිදුවීමක්, සිරස්තල කිහිපයක්!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-09-27)On 26 September 2022 and 27 September 2022 Dinamina, Divaina and Lankadeepa published articles about the same incident (of asking the former first lady Ayoma Rajapaksa for a bribe), while referring to the person allegedly ...