Verité in the News

    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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    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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    Budget 2018 mired on implementation
    by |17 October 2018|Verité in the News
    Taken from DailyFT From left: Verite Research’s Research Director Subhashini Abeysinghe, Analyst Hasna Munas and Economic Research Team Leader Vidya Nathaniel - Pic by Ruwan Walpola Verité’s latest Budget tracker for 1H shows only 8% of 38 major proposals worth Rs. 149...
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    Budget promises lagging; state of ‘Implementation Unit’ unknown
    by |17 October 2018|Verité in the News
    Taken from Daily Mirror National Budget Department says no such unit exists Progress reports of individual ministries lacking consistency Status of 26 percent of promises remains undisclosed By Shabiya Ali Ahlam The government has yet again failed to implement the...
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    Only 8-pct of Sri Lanka govt budget promises on track, study finds
    by |17 October 2018|Verité in the News
    Taken from EconomyNext ECONOMYNEXT – Most new spending proposals in Sri Lanka’s 2018 government budget are behind schedule in their implementation with only eight percent of promises progressing on track, the same rate as last year, a new study has...
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    Only 8-pct of Sri Lanka’s 2018 budget promises progressing on track: Verité
    by |17 October 2018|Verité in the News
    Taken from LBO Oct 16, 2018 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s private think tank Verité Research has found out that only 8 percent of promises announced in the 2018 budget are progressing on track through the end of the first six...
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    Only 8% of budget promises are on track, says think tank
    by |17 October 2018|Verité in the News
    Taken from Ada Derana A private sector think-tank says that only 8% of the government’s budget promises are progressing in line with their targets and that the pace of progress is slow, at the end of the first six months...
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