October 2018

    Broken promises from budget pledges: Verite Research
    by |30 October 2018|Verité in the News
    Taken from Sunday Observer By Quintus Perera   The Government has performed poorly in executing budget proposals or promises, for, in its total pledges to disburse Rs. 149,350 million during 2018, only 8 per cent of these promises have been...
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    Sacked Sri Lanka PM given ‘deadline’ to vacate residence
    by |29 October 2018|Verité in the News
    Ranil Wickremesinghe (centre) urged the Speaker to convene parliament so he can prove his majority [Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters] Taken from Al Jazeera As political crisis worsens, president suspends parliament and Wickremesinghe's opponents threaten to storm residence. by Rathindra Kuruwita & Zaheena...
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    Sri Lanka president sacks prime minister, appoints Rajapaksa
    by |29 October 2018|Verité in the News
    Taken from Al Jazeera Maithripala Sirisena (right) appointed Mahinda Rajapaksa (left) at a rushed ceremony in Colombo [AFP]Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been sworn in as prime minister after the country's president sacked incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe, in a...
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    Sri Lankan media ownership laid bare with new transparency tool
    by |29 October 2018|Verité in the News
    Taken from LBO October 26, 2018 (LBO) – Reporters without Borders and Sri Lanka’s Verite Research have launched a web portal that aims to inform the public about media ownership, and possible inherent biases that may be present in media...
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    මොළ හෝදන ලංකාවේ මාධ්‍ය හිමිකමේ තිත්ත ඇත්ත මෙන්න
    by |29 October 2018|Verité in the News
    Taken from Lanka A News මෙරට මුද්‍රිත මාධ්‍ය ආයතනවලින් සියයට 79 කට යම් දේශපාලනඥයකුගේ හිමිකමක් හෝ වක්‍රාකාර බලපෑමක් පවතින බව අනාවරණවී තිබෙනවා. ඒ sri-lanka.mom-rsf.orgවෙබ් අඩවිය හා දේශ සීමා විරහිත මාධ්‍යවේදීන් සිදුකළ අනාවරණයකට අනුවයි. එමෙන්ම මෙරට ජනමාධ්‍ය පරිහරණය කරන පිරිසෙන් සියයට 75...
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    MEDIA OWNERSHIP IN SRI LANKA: AUDIENCE CONCENTRATION IS VESTED IN THE HANDS OF A FEW OWNERS
    by |29 October 2018|Verité in the News
    Taken from Sri Lanka Brief 23 individuals own 44 of the most popular media outlets in the country. The owners of 2 outlets in the online medium remains unknown. The top 4 owners in the mediums of print, television and...
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    REPORT:THE MEDIA REGULATOR OF SRI LANKA, THE GOVT HAS ITS OWN 30 PLUS MEDIA OUTLETS
    by |29 October 2018|Verité in the News
    Taken from Sri Lanka Brief In the media space, the state’s dual role as both an owner and a regulator means it is a player in the game as well as a referee and a rule-maker. With ownership of at...
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    2018 අයවැයේ කඩවුණු පොරොන්දු
    by |26 October 2018|Interviews & Articles
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    Media Ownership Monitor: Who owns the media in Sri Lanka and how much?
    by |26 October 2018|Press Release
    The Media Ownership Monitor is an international platform that traces and identifies the owners behind the key media outlets in different countries. As a pioneering initiative between the German Section of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Verité Research, the Media...
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    Sri Lanka Exim bank proposal in limbo for three years
    by |22 October 2018|Verité in the News
    Taken from EconomyNext ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government has failed to carry out a controversial proposal to set up a an ‘Export-Import bank’, to support businesses venturing overseas, for the third straight year, a think tank said. The study, presented...
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