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"හිටපු කොටියා" ද? විත්තිකරුවෙක් ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-04-07)On 7th April 2023, an article published in the Divaina newspaper used the term “Hitapu Kotiya” to describe a suspect who was allegedly a former member of the LTTE and had been released from a court case regarding drugs. ... -
එක් සිදුවීමක්, සහෝදර පුවත්පත් දෙකක් වාර්තා දෙකක්?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-04-26)On 26th April 2024 an article published in the Mawbima newspaper used the term "Malkakula" to describe a minor who died from a paracetamol overdose, which sensationalises the incident. The infographic also included the ... -
බාලවයස්කරුවන්ගේ අනන්‍යතාවය වක්‍රාකාරයෙන් හෙලිකිරීමක්?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-04-05)On 5th of April 2023 an article published in the Lankadeepa newspaper revealed the identity of a woman who had physically abused two minors, including her daughter, for engaging in sexual activity. This disclosure also ... -
රූපවාහිනි නාලිකාවල පළවූ පුවත් සිරස්තල තුළින් ඉස්මතුවූ මාධ්‍ය ධ්‍රැවීකරණය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)On 27 June 2023 Sinhala TV news channels reported on the President's statement about the domestic debt restructuring process. Rupavahini, Sirasa, Derana and Swarnawahini highlighted on the debt restructuring process will ... -
අඟුරුවාතොට මරණය: "රූමත්" හෝ "හැඩකාර" බව අදාළ වන්නේද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)On 23rd and 24th July 2023, Sinhala newspapers Aruna, Sathi Aga Aruna, Divaina and Lankadeepa reported on the death of a mother and her baby. The papers referred to the mother's appearance by using words such as "රූමත්" ... -
හැඟීම් කළඹවන සුළු වාර්තාකරණයක්?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)On 24 July 2023, Sinhala newspapers published articles on an incident in Vavuniya where a group of masked persons attacked a home and set in on fire, which resulted in the death of a female. The newspapers Mawbima, ... -
කාන්තාවන්ගේ බාහිර ස්වරූපය අනවශ්‍ය ලෙස ඉස්මතු කිරීම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-09)On the 3rd of September 2023, the Sinhala newspaper Sathi Aga Aruna published an article surrounding the death of a female servant who had been working for a businesswoman. The newspaper had referred to the deceased female's ... -
පේරාදෙණිය ශික්ෂණ රෝහලේදී එන්නත් ආසාත්මිකතාවයකින් සිදුවුවා යැයි කියන තරුණියකගේ මරණය: රූපවාහිනී පුවත් වාර්තාකරණ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)In July 2023, Sinhala TV channels covered the funeral of a girl who had passed away at the Peradeniya hospital. The reason for her death was because of complications that arose due to a vaccine that had been administered ... -
අපහාසාත්මක යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම තුළින් පුද්ගලයින් වෙනස් කොට සැලකීම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)From 10 to 30 June 2023, Sinhala newspapers Dinamina, Divaina and Aruna published articles which referred to drug addicts as "කුඩ්ඩන් " (kuddan). On 19 July 2023, Sinhala newspapers Dinamina and Aruna published articles ... -
හැඟීම් කළඹවන සුළු සිරස්තල, නිශේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)On 7 July 2023, Sinhala newspaper Aruna published three news reports i.e. arrest of 58 people including 39 women in Jaffna after conflict between some groups, arrest of three young women at a brothel run in a building ... -
නතාශාට ඇප: සිරස්තලයේ අවධානය කොයිබටද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)On 6 July 2023, the Sinhala newspaper Divaina published an article about Nathasha Edirisooriya receiving bail. But the manner in which the headline and sub-headline have been framed, does not give an accurate account of ... -
"කරදර කිරීමක්" ද? "ලිංගික අපයෝජනයක්" ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)In the month of July 2023, Sinhala newspapers Mawbima, Lankadeepa, Dinamina and Aruna published articles that trivialised sex crimes. On the 10th of July, Mawbima and Aruna reported the sexual abuse of novice monks at ... -
බාලවයස්කරුවන්ගේ අනන්‍යතාව හෙළිකිරීම, හැඟීම් කළඹවන සිරස්තල සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)The article published in Dinamina on 21 July 2023, violated media ethical guidelines by revealing the identity of 16 year old students and using sensational headlines. -
බාල වයස්කාර දැරියට දොස් පැවරීමක්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)On July 10, 2023, Aruna and Dinamina Sinhala newspapers had reported how a 14-year-old girl who had told her home that she was going to tuition classes was found by the police 8 months after she went missing. The headline ... -
පඬුකරඳ ශාකය ගලවා ඉවත් කිරීම: රූපවාහිනී සහ පුවත්පත් වාර්තකරණයන්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)During the month of July 2023, several newspapers and television channels covered the narrative supporting and opposing the cutting of the Crudia zeylanica tree. Newspapers such as Dinamina, Lankadeepa, Aruna and television ... -
ඔබ තෝරාගන්නේ මින් කුමන සිරස්තලයද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)During the month of July 2023, articles published in Lankadeepa, Divaina and Dinamina newspapers and a news report broadcast by Hiru used the word "නරුමයා"(narumaya) to demonise a suspected father who first held his child ... -
නිශේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-08)In the month of August 2023, Sinhala newspapers Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa and Sinhala TV channel Hiru used derogatory terms such as "කුඩුකාරයා" (Kudukaraya), "කුඩ්ඩන්" (Kuddan) and "මත් ලෝලියා" (Math loliya) to ... -
පුවතට අදාළ නොවන වාර්ගිකත්වය ඉස්මතු නොකරමු!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-04-06)On the 4th of April 2023, Dinamina highlighted the suspect's ethnicity where it was irrelevant, while Ada reported it ethically without revealing the suspect's race. -
බුද්ධි ප්‍රබෝධ මිය යෑම සහ අසංවේදී, ගැටළු සහගත මාධ්‍ය වාර්තාකරණ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-04)During the month of April 2023, Dinamina and Silumina newspapers published insensitive editorials and a cartoon that trivialised Buddhi Prabodha Karunaratne's death and mental illness. -
ගැටළු සහගත වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-04)During the months of March and April 2023, several Sinhala and English newspapers, i.e. Dinamina, Divaina, Daily News and Daily Mirror, published articles on various topics (i.e. Journalist falsely seeks Asylum, Masses ...